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Qualification => Subject Doubts => IGCSE/ GCSE => Social Studies => Topic started by: amdoo on May 27, 2009, 11:55:22 am
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Is anyone appearing for EM exams?
i need tips for solving paper 4
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This paper is very hard.
This is an exclusive thread for EM, and questions regarding that should be asked here only.
hmm, even im waiting for replies, very few people take EM actually.
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I take EM, paper 4 is hard, but the Grade threshold does it justice. The boundary for A on paper 4 is very low, I remember I got something like 35/60 or something, dont remember, it was an A
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but relying on thresholds doesnt help
and what do we practice, there are hardly 8 papers to practice, and that too there are no models answers too.
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P4 isnt THAT hard .. its just that the paper is VERY different from other papers .. there arent any direct Questions ask .. always a situation and they require you to use your knowledge of EM in a situation ...
but the thing is there is a technique to solve the papers .. i mean every paper has a same questions .. but u can say that the words are different .. patter is same ie .. so to solve those questions u need to know some stuff .. like you are in the field and how u go about in the situatuion
like for example about sampling .. u need to know the diff types of sampling (i dont know :S)
and which sampling would be appropriate for the situation
and questionnaires .. i just need notes about this type of stuff .. i just want to understand it .. but cant find any notes .
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P4 isnt THAT hard .. its just that the paper is VERY different from other papers .. there arent any direct Questions ask .. always a situation and they require you to use your knowledge of EM in a situation ...
but the thing is there is a technique to solve the papers .. i mean every paper has same questions .. but u can say that the words are different .. pattern is same ie .. so to solve those questions u need to know some stuff .. like you are in the field and how u go about in the situatuion
like for example about sampling .. u need to know the diff types of sampling (i dont know :S)
and which sampling would be appropriate for the situation
and questionnaires .. i just need notes about this type of stuff .. i just want to understand it .. but cant find any notes .
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ANYONE TAKING ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OVER HERE, PLEASE REPLY!
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hey everyone, please this my request and i am making it sticky, because i need more people to notice this, so we can get enough help.
if u really do not want it to be sticky, then tell me
i just wanted it sticky, because i need help badly
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i need help also..!! =(
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Im in grade 10 and i take EM too , paper 1 and 2 are very easy and mostly general knowledge but paper 4, alternative to practical, is not hard but you need to do the past papers and let your teachers help you. I have some notes and i hope ill post them later, may be after 2 weeks because i have my final exams on sunday. By the way, where do you live? Im in Dubai, UAE.
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yeps
:D
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scan it.
if u have any problems, tell me
we got easy solutions for scanning and ...
waiting for your reply
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hey ppl! sorry i said that this will take a two weeks time but here they are! please these are my notes and i've really hard to make them so please please give credit. thanks, i hope you do well in your exams! ( i still have one year left! ;) )
i don't know whether these are the full notes for igcse, im in grade 10 and we still didnt finish the syllabus so some things might be missing.
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P4 isnt THAT hard .. its just that the paper is VERY different from other papers .. there arent any direct Questions ask .. always a situation and they require you to use your knowledge of EM in a situation ...
but the thing is there is a technique to solve the papers .. i mean every paper has a same questions .. but u can say that the words are different .. patter is same ie .. so to solve those questions u need to know some stuff .. like you are in the field and how u go about in the situatuion
like for example about sampling .. u need to know the diff types of sampling (i dont know :S)
and which sampling would be appropriate for the situation
and questionnaires .. i just need notes about this type of stuff .. i just want to understand it .. but cant find any notes .
to amdoo my notes have everything about sampling and questionnaires, i hope it helps!
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the only possible way to give credit over here is by +rep
so i will do that
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sorry for posting three times, but anyone has biology igcse notes? i need them desperately, i have my final exam( not igcse) after one week and i need essential revision! thanks in advance. (sorry if i've posted here, any help is appreciated)
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hmm
no special tips
but websites to refer to
and yeah, so past papers, they help a lot and then correct my markschemes
https://studentforums.biz/index.php/topic,1788.15.html
i wrote down few websites, about bio
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I think EM has this reputation of being extremely easy when its actually not.
It's getting more difficult each year =/
I agree- P4 is really hard.
I think if you ask people who do geography to help you out with the basics it might help.
That's what I'm going to do anyways (:
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hey even me doing e.m man its dam tough i dnt knw wht 2 do god n ya running out of time n ya can neone help me wth d qp 2006 2f) of p2 nov session plzzzzz n ya jun2004 p4 q2ciii) plzzzzz need is urgent n ya who said p1 n p2 is general knowledge man i feel e.m is by far d toghest subject out of all d subjects offered 2 ig students
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but relying on thresholds doesnt help
and what do we practice, there are hardly 8 papers to practice, and that too there are no models answers too.
I disagree, Threshold tells us the boundaries for A, and the mark for A is pretty low, and I dont believe there have been any great fluctuations regarding that. Thus if you look at it, it may be considered as easy to get an A in paper 4 as in paper 2. For paper 4, I have some excellent excellent notes, which the teacher described as goldmine, too bad I dont have a scanner to upload it here :(. I think the papers ought to be enough to recognize the pattern.
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hmmm
are they too much?
can u type them?
or else someone in ur friends should be having a scanner.
cmon plz try.
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but relying on thresholds doesnt help
and what do we practice, there are hardly 8 papers to practice, and that too there are no models answers too.
I disagree, Threshold tells us the boundaries for A, and the mark for A is pretty low, and I dont believe there have been any great fluctuations regarding that. Thus if you look at it, it may be considered as easy to get an A in paper 4 as in paper 2. For paper 4, I have some excellent excellent notes, which the teacher described as goldmine, too bad I dont have a scanner to upload it here :(. I think the papers ought to be enough to recognize the pattern.
Could you please give us a general outline of what they're about/ what we would need to know for a typical paper 4?
(:
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I am reverting it from sticky, as the topic did not get replies as expected.
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but relying on thresholds doesnt help
and what do we practice, there are hardly 8 papers to practice, and that too there are no models answers too.
I disagree, Threshold tells us the boundaries for A, and the mark for A is pretty low, and I dont believe there have been any great fluctuations regarding that. Thus if you look at it, it may be considered as easy to get an A in paper 4 as in paper 2. For paper 4, I have some excellent excellent notes, which the teacher described as goldmine, too bad I dont have a scanner to upload it here :(. I think the papers ought to be enough to recognize the pattern.
Could you please give us a general outline of what they're about/ what we would need to know for a typical paper 4?
(:
Well looking at the "goldmines" right now, I must say, there is not much goldly about them afterall. They basically contain graphing methods, LOTS of them, infact 90% are just graphs, pie graphs histrograms and how to calculate them, apparently the teacher thought all who take EM take maths core. fool. There is some sh*t about The scatter graphs and recognizing patterns. The only important thing is Sampling, which is a question asked in paper 4 all the time.
Random Sampling, Systematic and Stratified. You people familair with them, I dont want to waste time writing them out just so you can nod your heads like wise men and go "ahhhh , I learned that in grade 2"
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but relying on thresholds doesnt help
and what do we practice, there are hardly 8 papers to practice, and that too there are no models answers too.
I disagree, Threshold tells us the boundaries for A, and the mark for A is pretty low, and I dont believe there have been any great fluctuations regarding that. Thus if you look at it, it may be considered as easy to get an A in paper 4 as in paper 2. For paper 4, I have some excellent excellent notes, which the teacher described as goldmine, too bad I dont have a scanner to upload it here :(. I think the papers ought to be enough to recognize the pattern.
Could you please give us a general outline of what they're about/ what we would need to know for a typical paper 4?
(:
Well looking at the "goldmines" right now, I must say, there is not much goldly about them afterall. They basically contain graphing methods, LOTS of them, infact 90% are just graphs, pie graphs histrograms and how to calculate them, apparently the teacher thought all who take EM take maths core. fool. There is some sh*t about The scatter graphs and recognizing patterns. The only important thing is Sampling, which is a question asked in paper 4 all the time.
Random Sampling, Systematic and Stratified. You people familair with them, I dont want to waste time writing them out just so you can nod your heads like wise men and go "ahhhh , I learned that in grade 2"
Haha thank you (:
I think it's okay, I'll google the things about sampling. You probably have better things to do than sitting and typing it up for us ;)
Thanks again.
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Thanks to acash09 for your help.
Looks like discussion for paper 4 is over.
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I dont get it. I did CIE Olvels Em and its the same as the IGCSE paper (cauz codes the same). WE had only paper 1 and 2. Where did this 4 came out of ??
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my em teacher gave us notes especially fr pp.4 however.. they are like 19 pages so pls gimme e-mail adress and i will mail them .... it says geography skills but most of the data colection/graph etc... methods are the same the ones that are not same are crossed out
hope it will help u
;)
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questions_of_game@yahoo.com
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hey even i need help wid em!
plz someone help
any notes someone prepared 2 study frm
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EM is not difficult.. it just needs a brain.. LOL! thts why im suffering.. :P JK! The exam is in 2 days and apperantly iv been studying a core Text Book all time long.. :o so ya dont worry my expected grade is a B so im happy.. :P
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Is anyone appearing for EM exams?
i need tips for solving paper 4
Hi amdoo,
For the paper 4 you have to know-
Calculation like simple multiplication, dividion etc
Know some info on different org like UNEP, UNICEF etc.
Biosphere is very imp. for this paper!!
U can just browse through other chapters.
Learn some multipurpose projects and be prepared with an eg. in your country !!
That's all !!!
Plzzz +rep if it helped!!