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You read the notes in your Geography Studio account, on a phone, tablet or laptop. They can't be downloaded or printed. Access goes to the email you buy with. If you're a parent buying for a student, you can give their email after checkout and the notes move to them. Access is for one reader, so you won't be able to read them yourself afterwards.
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That is still less than half an hour of my tutoring, which is £75 an hour.
What you get
Comprehensive revision notes on the whole unit
All the case study detail, and the story each one tells
Revision recall questions throughout
Real OCR questions on every section, and the ones likely to come next
The whole unit, built around the four enquiry questions.
1 Dryland landscapes as systems
2 How desert landforms develop
3 How landforms evolve as climate changes
4 How human activity causes change
Covered and labelled. No hunting across PowerPoints, OneNote and Google Classroom.
What to look for in a photograph, the formation sequence with the flows of energy and material, and a real example. What the 8-mark "Explain" questions need.
The common mistakes from OCR's published reports, so you do not have to read them yourself.
Every question OCR has set on each topic, and where to find it.
Same command words, same structure, so you can see what is likely to come.
Retrieval practice throughout, so you revise actively rather than rereading.
The exam does not ask for facts, it asks for an argument. Every case study closes with the story it tells and the arguments it builds.
Dryland Landscapes is the OCR A-Level Geography (H481) unit on desert and semi-arid landscapes, and how their landforms form, evolve and are changed by people. It is one of three landscape options examined in Section A of Paper 1, and students answer on the one their school teaches. The specification requires case studies of one mid-latitude desert and one low-latitude desert, plus one dryland landscape affected by water supply issues and one affected by economic activity.
The Colorado Plateau, USA — Mid-latitude desert
The Namib Desert, Southwest Africa — Low-latitude desert
The Kalahari Desert, Southern Africa — Low-latitude desert
The Colorado Basin, USA — Water supply
Southeast Utah, USA — Economic activity
Each one is labelled, so you revise the ones your school teaches and skip the rest.
Do email me at jono@geographystudio.co.uk and say which one. I will reply, and if possible, add it to the revision notes.
Paper 1 has two halves. Section B is Earth's Life Support Systems, which every OCR student sits, and that unit is free on this site. If you have not downloaded it yet, do take that one first. It is in the same format, with the same features, and it will show you exactly how these notes work before you spend anything.
Section A is your landscape system, and which one you study depends on your school. If your school teaches Dryland Landscapes, this is the other half of the paper that you need.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
In regards to situations where I lacked enough case study knowledge, his concise resources were extremely helpful, providing exactly the knowledge I needed without going over the top. Given the vast number of case studies required, this made my revision much more manageable.
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His revision notes were concise, and gave advice on how to score top marks in long-answer questions.
A grade · OCR A-Level Geography
His very detailed yet concise revision notes for each topic were very helpful for filling in the gaps in my knowledge.
OCR A-Level Geography