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Understand the world and shape its future
Understand the world and shape its future
Qualification: A Level
Exam Board: AQA
Duration: 2 years
Entry Requirements: Minimum Grade 5 in GCSE Geography
Level: 3 (Advanced Level)
Geography at Carterton Community College helps students make sense of the world’s most pressing issues — from climate change and resource management to migration, urbanisation, and inequality. It bridges the natural and social sciences, exploring how physical systems and human activity interact on a local and global scale.
The AQA A Level Geography course is engaging, relevant, and challenging. It encourages you to think critically about the world, ask geographical questions, and develop transferable skills in research, communication, and analysis. Geography is a subject that keeps your options open — combining perfectly with sciences, social sciences, or humanities, and valued highly by universities and employers alike.
“Geography gives students the tools to question, analyse, and lead. It builds curiosity about the world and confidence to make a difference within it.”
What Will I learn?
What Will I learn?
You will study both Physical Geography and Human Geography, linking them through key geographical themes and concepts.
Physical Geography topics include water and carbon cycles, coastal systems and landscapes, and natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and tropical storms. Human Geography focuses on global systems and governance, urban environments, and the changing dynamics of places and populations.
A distinctive feature of the course is independent fieldwork. You will complete a geographical investigation based on your own area of interest — analysing, collecting, and interpreting data to answer a research question you have designed. This project helps develop independence, enquiry skills, and academic confidence.
Careers & Progression
Careers & Progression
A Level Geography opens doors to a wide range of degrees and career paths. Many students go on to study Geography, Environmental Science, Urban Planning, Geology, or International Relations at university.
The analytical, research, and communication skills developed are also valued in fields such as law, politics, economics, education, sustainability, and logistics. Employers appreciate geographers’ ability to interpret data, evaluate evidence, and see connections between people and places — skills that are essential in the modern workplace.
How You'll be assessed
How You'll be assessed
This qualification follows the AQA 7037 specification and is assessed through two written exams and one non-examined assessment (NEA).
Paper 1, Physical Geography, and Paper 2, Human Geography, are both 2 hours 30 minutes in duration and each contribute 40 per cent of the qualification. The NEA, worth 20 per cent, is an independent investigation of between 3,000 and 4,000 words.
The assessment structure rewards not just factual knowledge but also your ability to interpret data, evaluate arguments, and apply theory to real-world issues.
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