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Component 1 and 2: Geographical Skills and Fieldwork
Quick questions on Fieldwork and geographical enquiry: methods, sampling and evaluation - OCR A-Level Geography
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What is the stages of geographical enquiry?Show answer
The enquiry process turns curiosity into evidence-based conclusions. It begins by framing a focused, answerable question grounded in geographical theory (a model, a concept, a debate), then designing a method capable of testing it. The later stages, presentation, analysis and especially evaluation, are where marks are concentrated, because they demonstrate the geographer's critical judgement, not just data-gathering. Understanding the whole cycle, and how each stage depends on the previous one, is what the written papers and the coursework both reward.
What is q1?Show answer
Distinguish between primary and secondary data, with one example of each. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why evaluating data reliability matters when drawing fieldwork conclusions. [3 marks]
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