Your Edexcel GCSE Geography Exam Explained with Tim Bayliss

Preparing for your Edexcel GCSE Geography Exam can feel challenging, especially with multiple GCSE subjects to revise for. That’s why Tim Bayliss, expert author for Oxford Revise, is here to explain exactly what to expect and how to approach your Geography exam with confidence.

Hi, I’m Tim Bayliss and I’m Series Editor for the Oxford Revise Revision Guide in Geography.

Since GCSE Geography first launched, I’ve been teaching it – and throughout that time, I’ve created a wide range of teaching resources, student textbooks, and revision guides.

Preparing for your Edexcel GCSE Geography exam

This Edexcel B guide is absolutely superb, it’s got all the knowledge you need. It’s got enforcement, that knowledge, it’s got all the essential key terms. It’s got revision tips, exam tips and hundreds of practice exam questions.

Just be comfortable and confident with what’s coming up in each of the three exam papers. For example, you will need case studies and we’ve got case studies in the guide for every single topic, but these are not necessarily the case studies that your teacher chose. So check this carefully and make sure that you’ve got fact files in your notes.

Paper Two also covers the geographical investigations. Now these are the two field trips that you did, and so you do need to revise them. Now again, we’ve put guidance in the guide on how best to answer fieldwork questions and we’ve put lots and lots of practice exam questions in there too.

Paper 3 involves a decision making exercise. Now the best revision for this is practice, and so you’ll do loads and loads of practice for this in class. But again, we’ve put guides in the guide on how best to approach decision making questions to bring out the best in your answers.

How to prepare for your Edexcel GCSE Geography exam

What I find with my own students is that the more revision they do, the more confident they become. As their confidence grows, they start anticipating what’s coming next – freeing up time to tackle even more practice exam questions as the papers get closer.

So, how to wrap this up? Well, it’s all about putting the time in, building your confidence step by step, and trusting that you’ll get there. Good luck!

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