Geographical Investigations
7 modules covering paper 4 and coursework fieldwork craft, from hypothesis to verdict — plan the enquiry, collect and present the data, and defend your conclusion
Your route through the unit.
Start anywhere — M1 is the gentlest way in.Module F1
F1: Planning an Investigation
The route to enquiry, hypotheses you can test, primary and secondary data, pilot studies and risk assessments — the planning craft behind every 30-mark investigation.
Module F2
F2: Sampling & Collection Design
Random, systematic and stratified sampling, sample-size trade-offs, recording sheets you devise yourself, and the reliability craft — accuracy, validity, control groups, observers and bias.
Module F3
F3: Techniques: Physical
The physical fieldwork craft, by environment: the full equipment locker, river velocity and discharge, beach profiles and longshore drift, dune transects — and the method writing that scores a mark per step.
Module F4
F4: Techniques: Human
The human fieldwork craft on the town streets: questionnaires and interviews done properly, traffic and pedestrian counts, land-use codes, CBD delimitation and bi-polar scoring — and the conduct that keeps the data honest.
Module F5
F5: Presenting the Data
The record sheets become figures: choosing the technique the data’s shape demands, justifying it in the three-part formula that scores, finishing the examiner’s figures inside real tolerances, meeting the fieldwork-native chart species, judging GIS honestly, and curing the classic presentation diseases.
Module F6
F6: Analysis, Conclusions & Evaluation
The paper’s biggest payload: reading results like an examiner, evidence quoted in scoring pairs, anomalies named without flinching, the plain-word verdict with its reserved mark, the method critique and improve-vs-extend craft — and the new levels-marked 6-mark decisions, built from zero.
Module F7
F7: Investigation Simulator
The whole route to enquiry, run in exam order: two complete 30-mark investigations — one river, one town — scored by a live marks ledger that banks first-try answers and names the rule behind every mark, plus the examiner’s chair where you hold the scheme yourself.