AQA GCSE Geography Paper 3, June 2025
Every question from AQA GCSE Geography Paper 3, June 2025 (8035): 5 questions, 70 marks, each with its mark scheme and topic.
- Question 1 15 marks
Answer questions on UK energy consumption trends, energy security and well-being, complete an electricity mix pie chart, and interpret European renewable energy data.
3.2 Challenges in the human environment · 3.4 Geographical skills · 3.2.3 Section C: The challenge of resource management · 3.4.2 Graphical skills · 3.4.3 Numerical skills
- Question 2 10 marks
Discuss the environmental impacts of renewable energy generation and explain why the proposed Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary scheme is considered a multi-use project.
3.2 Challenges in the human environment · 3.3 Geographical applications · 3.2.3 Section C: The challenge of resource management · 3.3.1 Section A: Issue evaluation
- Question 3 9 marks
Evaluate whether the social and economic benefits of the Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary tidal gateway project outweigh its environmental costs, using evidence from the pre-release resources booklet.
3.3 Geographical applications · 3.4 Geographical skills · 3.3.1 Section A: Issue evaluation · 3.4.6 Formulate enquiry and argument · 3.4.7 Literacy
- Question 4 16 marks
Answer questions evaluating and analysing data from unfamiliar fieldwork contexts including a river investigation, a visitor travel survey using a desire line map, and a shopping centre survey.
3.3 Geographical applications · 3.4 Geographical skills · 3.3.2 Section B: Fieldwork · 3.4.1 Cartographic skills · 3.4.2 Graphical skills · 3.4.3 Numerical skills · 3.4.4 Statistical skills
- Question 5 20 marks
Answer questions on geographical fieldwork enquiries: outline the usefulness of secondary data, suggest advantages of a chosen sampling strategy, justify data collection methods in a human geography enquiry, and evaluate the overall effectiveness and potential improvements of an enquiry.
3.3 Geographical applications · 3.4 Geographical skills · 3.3.2 Section B: Fieldwork · 3.4.6 Formulate enquiry and argument