Geography A Level

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Application close: 31 January 2026

How to Apply: - Please apply via Applicaa. Please click here to visit our sixth form information page on our website

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Entry Requirements: - 6.5 average point score, minimum of 4 in English Language and Maths GCSE. Entry grade criteria for A Level subjects chosen.

Why choose to study Geography at Judd?

Students who choose to study Geography are fascinated by different environments, places, people and contemporary local and global issues. Geographers study a huge range of topics but what makes this subject unique is that these topics are always applied to real places and current examples.

We study Geography through a wide variety of media and using a range of teaching methods, always keeping the subject as up-to-date as possible. Students at Judd have access to books, magazines, lectures delivered by the local Geographical Association as well as a dedicated Geography Library in the Department. This allows them to read around the subject widely and to develop their knowledge and interests.

As well as the broad subject content, Geography develops many valuable skills which can be applied in other subject areas, at university and beyond! Our students have the opportunity to use skills of communication, numeracy, graphicacy, practical skills, problem solving, decision-making and research. The wide content of the course means that it is a popular choice to study alongside any other subjection combination at A Level; it is equally comfortable being studied with Mathematics and Physics as it is with English, History, Economics and French. The strong skills focus also enables Geography students to enter a wide range of courses in Higher Education; in recent years we have had students going on to study Law, Geology, Environmental Science, PPE, Journalism, Economics, Engineering and Medicine (as well as a significant number studying Geography, including at Oxbridge).

Fieldwork at Judd School

The A Level course has a large emphasis on fieldwork and students learn through their own enquiries. All students must carry out a minimum of four days of fieldwork, all of which is provided through the school. An excellent six-day residential field trip is organised at the end of the spring term (cost approximately £600) during which students practise a variety of skills and fieldwork methods that relate to processes in both Physical and Human Geography, while exploring a fascinating and beautiful part of the country. All students have to carry out their own fieldwork investigation with a written report of 3000 – 4000 words which accounts for 20% of the A Level qualification. This allows for students to research an area of the subject that they are most interested in.

What you will be learning (course outline):

The course involves the study a combination of Physical and Human Geography topics. There is also the need for synoptic investigations where knowledge and understanding is drawn from the compulsory elements of the course to interpret information on geographical issues. The course is divided up into a number of enquiry questions around geographical issues such as:

• Why do some tectonic hazards develop into disasters?
• Why are coastal landscapes different and what processes cause these differences?
• What are the consequences of globalisation for global development and the physical environment and how should different players respond to its challenges?
• Will the USA continue to be a world superpower in the future or is its influence starting to wane?
• How does water insecurity occur and why is it becoming such a global issue for the 21st century?
• Where are the world’s carbon sinks and how do they interact with global climate?
• Does increasing migration mean that countries are starting to lose their sovereignty?

And even…

•  Who owns Antarctica?

Three written exam papers – physical, human and synoptic – each 2 hours and 15 minutes long and an independent fieldwork investigation of 3000-4000 words.

7 in GCSE Geography if taken. Students who have not taken GCSE Geography must speak to the Head of Geography to discuss suitability.