AQA GCSE Geography offers a clear and engaging curriculum that covers both physical and human geography, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of the world around them. The specification is designed to develop key skills such as data analysis, problem-solving, and critical thinking, which are valuable for further study and future careers. With a balanced approach to assessment, including fieldwork and practical skills, AQA Geography ensures that students are well-prepared for both exams and real-world applications of geography.

• Paper 1 - Living with the physical environment. For the first paper you will be looking at, the challenge of natural hazards, the living world, physical landscapes in the UK and geographical skills. The written exam will take 1 hour and 30 minutes, worth up to 88 marks (including 3 marks for spelling, punctuation, grammar and specialist terminology), making up 35% of your GCSE.
• Paper 2 - Challenges in the human environment; during the second paper you will be studying and writing about urban issues and challenges, the changing economic world, the challenge of resource management and finally, geographical skills. Like the first paper, you will have 1 hour 30 minutes earning up to the same marks and worth the same 35% of the GCSE. There will also be different types of questions asked like; multiple choice, short answer, levels of response and extended prose in all three of the papers.
• Paper 3 - when you read and sit through the topics of issue evaluation, fieldwork and geographical skills. The marking scheme is slightly different with this paper. There are 76 marks available (including 6 for SPaG) which makes it worth 30% of the students' final GCSE. The timing is the same as the first two papers, making the whole written assessment in exam conditions is 4 hours and 30 minutes.