Geography IB Level 3
Leigh Academy Wilmington
Common Lane, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent, DA2 7DR
Available start dates
Available start dates
Application Instructions
Applications Open: - 7th November 2025
Applications Close: - 31st July 2026
Entry Requirements: - 5 Grades at 5 and above including English and Maths
How to Apply: - We don't accept application on KentChoices - Please apply via Admissions+ using the link below:-
https://wilmingtonacademy.applicaa.com/sixthform
Course Summary
Geography is a dynamic subject that is firmly grounded in the real world and focuses on the interactions between individuals, societies and physical processes in both time and space.
The Diploma Programme Geography course integrates physical, environmental and human geography, and ensures that students acquire elements of both socio‐economic and scientific methodologies. This helps students develop life skills and have an appreciation of, and a respect for, alternative approaches, viewpoints, and ideas.
The aim of the Geography course is to enable students to:
• develop an understanding of the dynamic interrelationships between people, places, spaces and the environment at different scales;
• develop a critical awareness and consider complex thinking in the context of the nexus of geographic issues, including:
• acquiring an in-depth understanding of how geographic issues or problems have been shaped by powerful human and physical processes
• synthesising diverse geographic knowledge in order to form viewpoints about how these issues could be resolved, and
• understand and evaluate the need for planning and sustainable development through the management of resources at varying scales.
Course Details
Part 1: Geographic Themes
• Freshwater
• Food and Health
• Leisure, sport and tourism
Part 2:
• Population distribution and changing populations
• Global climate - vulnerability and resilience
• Global resource consumption and security
Part 3:
• Power, places and networks
• Human development and diversity
• Global risks and resilience
This course is assessed through external and internal assessments:
How will it be delivered and assessed?
External assessments:
• Paper 1 (Geographic Themes), 60 marks, 2 hours 15 minutes: 35%
• Paper 2 (Global Change Perspectives), 50 marks, 1 hour 15 minutes: 25%
• Paper 3 (Global Interactions Perspectives), 28 marks, 1 hour: 20%
Internal assessment:
• 20 hours’ fieldwork, written report, 25 marks: 20%
Entry requirements
Minimum of 5 9-5 grades in GCSE examinations including English and Maths and requires Geography to have been studied at GCSE level
Your next steps...
- Town Planning
- Hazard & Risk Management
- Market Research
- Architecture
- Transport Planner
- Tourism Officer
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