If you're struggling with GCSE Geography, you also actually want to get a grade 9, then you
add the right video today because today, I'll be sharing with you all top 10 tips on how to really
get that grade 9 in GCSE Geography that is full proof guaranteed ways to actually get that 9, if
you're interested to find other tips, then please keep watching this video till the end. So, as I
mentioned in my previous GCSE videos, these top 10 tips are actually based on three areas; the first
one, is based on my own personal experience and mistakes that I have made during my own GCSEs;
number two, is based on my own sister's teachers' advice and comments on how to really get that 9 in
that particular subject, and of course, number three, is based on research on online, for example
through Youtube videos, or any other kind of free resources where they give you actually tips and
tricks on how to really get the grade 9 in GCSE Geography, so these are not made up or anything
like that, but these are really foolproof, guaranteed and best ways to really get that 9 in
Geography, and if you're interested to find out the 10 tips, then please keep watching this video
till the end. Before I move on to the advanced tips on how to really get that grade 9 in GCSE
Geography, I want to make sure that you're doing these four basic things already and really well.
First of all, make sure that you're looking at the mark scheme, the teachers comments,
as well as the examiners reports to make sure that you know exactly what points give you the marks,
as well as how to really structure your answers based on those points, and how to really organize
them really well whenever you're writing an answer. Number two is making sure you're
practicing as many past papers as possible, and this is actually a no-brainer, something that you
should be doing starting on from today onwards. Number three is making sure that you're looking
at as many free resources as possible out there on the internet, for example, Youtube videos,
flashcards such as Quizlet, or any other kind of summary sheets, or cheat sheets of other people
that have already submitted online, so that other students can actually access them, and of course,
number four is making sure they're sending as much as work as possible to your teachers,
especially online if you can do this through email for example, or actually meeting them up and face
to face after school, or even during lunchtime depending on whenever they're available. So these
were the four basic tips you should be doing right now anyway, but now we're going to be moving on
to the advanced tips. Tip number one is making sure that you're learning all the definitions
all by heart, and you can actually access all of these definitions either through your textbook,
or even online through the exam board that you might be doing, so if you're doing, for example,
Edexcel GCSE Geography, or something like that, or if you're doing OCR GCSE Geography,
depending on whichever examples you have, you want to make sure that you are accessing all
the definitions that they want you to actually learn and these are actually available on the
specifications I believe, where they have at the back of the booklet or something,
all the definitions that you should be learning. Alternatively, if you really want
to be exactly sure, and you want to make sure that you know all the definitions really well,
you want to be confirming it also through your textbook, and also showing to the teacher if
these are definitions that you should be learning or not, and deciding on whether they're
really good or not, so you want to make sure they're learning all the definitions by heart,
so that whenever in the exam they ask you "What is a coast?" or something like that,
you know exactly what to answer, and what is the definition, and you can earn really good
marks and very easy marks as well, and you don't want to miss out marks because you don't know our
definition of certain words. Tip number two is making sure that you know the case studies really
well, the key facts and key points, so that whenever you're given a long answer, or a long
essay question in the exam, you know exactly which case that you talk about to support your points,
and for this, you can actually use flashcards for example, and you have one side the case name,
and the on the other back of it you have the key facts and key points, and maybe how it relates to
an essay question, or something like that, so you want to keep as much as information as possible
in that flashcard, so that you know exactly what you're talking about, and how the case study might
be referring to your question, and how relevant it is, so you want to make sure that case studies
are something that you've spent a lot of time actually learning them, so that whenever you're
writing a point, you know exactly what you're talking about, and the examiners will know that
you have actually done your research, or also you have learned the information really well,
so you show how well you can apply the knoweledge, because application is where the students actually
lose up their marks in a way, so you want to make sure that you're practicing as many past
members as possible as I mentioned before. But along with that, when it comes to long essay
questions (Tip number 3), you want to make sure that your case studies are on point, so in light
of the long essay questions, you want to make sure they're actually creating some balance arguments,
and also model answers on how to actually answer these long essay questions, with an introduction,
with a balanced argument of body and also a conclusion, in that way, whenever you're
given a similar kind of a question in the exam, you'll know exactly how to structure your answers,
because a structured answer is always better than an answer that might be waffling, or it might not
be relevant, or might not be even answering the question itself, so you want to make sure that
you're practicing as many long answers, or long questions exam questions, as much as possible,
so that in that way, you know exactly how to prepare yourself, and what points to write when,
and how to structure it, because structure is a very important part of an essay, and you want
to make sure that everything is flowing one after the other, all the sentences, all the paragraphs
are linked together, as well as having good evidences, or good strong evidences to support
your points, that can also, of course, boost your marks, so you want to make sure that you're
writing the long answers with an introduction, balanced arguments and also a conclusion,
so that you're prepared in the exam. Tip number four is making sure they're writing a good set
of consolidated notes and use brain terms as a way to actually remember the information
through spaced repetition. What this means is that you have a one summary sheet with all
the information that you need for that topic, and whenever you want to actually know if you remember
the topic or not really well, you want to do brain dump, which means that you write everything down
of everything that you've actually learned and studied before, and you just try to jot
it down in a piece of paper, and you can actually practice this really well with spaced repetition,
which means that, you only do brain dump every other day, or maybe once you do it every other
day, and then you start doing it after two days, two days gap in between the days, and then you do
it one week later, so you want to see that if your information is actually sticking into your head,
and before you actually even end up forgetting it, you actually have recalled information,
so that it gets stronger in your brain, and you actually remember it better, so you want to make
sure that you're creating a good set of notes that you actually practice and brain dump as
well as using the spaced repetition to emphasize this, and make it more stronger in your memory
to actually remember the information really well, and of course, to do this, even better you want to
make sure that you stay up to date with all the topics and all the lessons that you have been
provided in this year, and make sure that you're up to date with all your notes. Tip number five is
making sure that you know all the command words that might be coming up in the exam, as well as
how to structure the answers based on that command word, and to find the information really easily,
you can just research on Google about the command words, and what they actually mean,
and each of the type of words, for example, "explain", "compare and contrast", "discuss",
"describe", whatever that might be, you want to actually make sure that that command word has been
explained to you into your head, so whenever you see that word again in the exam, you know exactly
how to write the answer based on the command word, and how the examiner wants you to write that
really well, so you want to make sure that you are familiarizing yourself with command words,
and not just for GCSE Geography, but also all the other subjects that I've already mentioned before,
and I have made videos on because this is a very important part on how to really structure your
answers, which can really help you with flowing your points really well, as well as getting the
marks and writing the points that actually the examiners want to see. So, make sure know your
command words. Tip number six is making sure that you're reading around the subject,
and increasing your awareness about Geography in general around the world. You can do this really
well by reading some kind of articles online, for example The Guardian has a really good
way to actually make you understand the topics, and what is actually going on current awareness
of Geography for example, the urbanisation, or globalization, or coast, or anything like that,
you want to make sure that you're up to date with any kind of information, because first of all,
they will help you with the case studies, and if you can come up with case studies that are quite
relevant, and current, and under present, or they might have happened a few days ago, a few weeks
ago, that can be a really good way to boost your marks as well, because the examiners will see that
you're very up to date with all the information around Geography, and in that way, it will make
it stand out from other students as well who might be writing the same exact case study over
and over again, and that can be very boring for a examiner I can imagine, so you want to make sure
that you stand out by reading around the subject and being aware of the subject around the world,
and how it is evolving, or how it is changing, and that can really boost your marks for sure. This
brings me to the end of today's video. I hope you really enjoyed it found this video really helpful,
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