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HL  Paper 3

Syllabus content—Part two HL core extension: Geographic perspectives—HL only

(HL Only)

(HL Paper 3)

Important Instructions – HL-Paper 3

  • HL weight 20% Total 1 hour
  • Choice of three extended answer questions, with two parts, based on each HL core unit
  • 28 marks
    • Part A—12 marks
    • Part B—16 marks

Syllabus content—Part two: HL core extension

Unit 4: Power, places and networks

  1. Global interactions and global power
  2. Global networks and flows
  3. Human and physical influences on global interactions

Unit 5: Human development and diversity

  1. Development opportunities
    • Ways of supporting the processes of human development
  2. Changing identities and cultures
  3. Local responses to global interactions

Unit 6: Global risks and resilience

  1. Geopolitical and economic risks
  2. Environmental risks
  3. Local and global resilience
    • New and emerging possibilities for managing global risks

HL and SL Paper 1

(Same Question Paper for SL and HL)

Important Instructions – SL

  • SL weight 35%
  • 45 minutes per option question
  • Total 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Each option has a structured question and one extended answer question from a choice of two.
  • 20 (10 + 10) marks per option 
  • Answer the questions in two options.
  • Total 40 marks
  • The accompanying geography resource booklet is required for this examination paper.

Important Instructions – HL

  • HL weight 35%
  • 45 minutes per option question Total 2 hours 15 minutes
  • Each option has a structured question and one extended answer question from a choice of two.
  • 20 (10 + 10) marks per option
  • Answer the questions in three options.
  • Total 60 marks
  • The accompanying geography resource booklet is required for this examination paper.

Syllabus content—Part One: Geographic themes—seven options

(Two options are studied at SL, and three at HL)

(SL Paper 1 and HL Paper 1)

Option A: Freshwater

  1. Drainage basin hydrology and geomorphology
  2. Flooding and flood mitigation
  3. Water scarcity and water quality
  4. Water management futures

Option B: Oceans and coastal margins

  1. Ocean–atmosphere interactions
  2. Interactions between oceans and coastal places
  3. Managing coastal margins
  4. Ocean management futures

Option C: Extreme environments

  1. The characteristics of extreme environments
  2. Physical processes and landscapes
  3. Managing extreme environments
  4. Extreme environments futures

Option D: Geophysical hazards

  1. Geophysical systems
  2. Geophysical hazard risks
  3. Hazard risk and vulnerability
  4. Future resilience and adaptation

Option E: Leisure, tourism and sport

  1. Changing leisure patterns
  2. Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
  3. Tourism and sport at the international scale
  4. Managing tourism and sport for the future

Option F: Food and health

  1. Measuring food and health
  2. Food systems and spread of diseases
  3. Stakeholders in food and health
  4. Future health and food security and sustainability

Option G: Urban environments

  1. The variety of urban environments
  2. Changing urban systems
  3. Urban environmental and social stresses
  4. Building sustainable urban systems for the future

HLSL Paper 2

(single Question paper for both SL and HL)

Important Instructions – SL-Paper 2

  • SL weight 40%Total 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Paper 2 Section A
    • Three structured questions, based on each SL/HL core unit 30 marks
  • Paper 2 Section B
    • Infographic or visual stimulus, with structured questions 10 marks
  • Paper 2 Section C
    • One extended answer question from a choice of two 10 marks
  • Total 50 marks

Important Instructions – HL-Paper 2

  • HL weight 25%Total 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Paper 2 Section A
    • Three structured questions, based on each SL/HL core unit 30 marks
  • Paper 2 Section B
    • Infographic or visual stimulus, with structured questions 10 marks
  • Paper 2 Section C
    • One extended answer question from a choice of two 10 marks
  • Total 50 marks

Syllabus content—Part two: SL and HL core

(Geographic perspectives—global change- SL & HL Paper 2)

Unit 1: Population distribution—changing population

  1. Population and economic development patterns
  2. Changing populations and places
  3. Challenges and opportunities

Unit 2: Global climate—vulnerability and resilience

  1. Causes of global climate change
  2. Consequences of global climate change
  3. Responding to global climate change

Unit 3: Global resource consumption and security

  1. Global trends in consumption
  2. Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption
  3. Resource stewardship
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