Geo 2026: Your International GCSE Geography exams

1 hour 10 minutes, 70 marks (40% of the qualification).
Section A: Topic 2 Coastal environments and Topic 3 Hazardous environments.
Section B: fieldwork questions linked to coasts.

1 hour 45 minutes, 105 marks (60% of the qualification).
Section A: Topic 4 Economic activity and energy and Topic 6 Urban environments.
Section B: fieldwork questions linked to urban environments.
Section C: Topic 7 Fragile environments and climate change.

Work through the lessons in order. Each has notes, a worked example and six self-marking questions; anything you get wrong comes back with a new explanation.
Then use your checklist: rate each point red, amber or green, and redo the lessons for anything red.
For long answers, practise 'because, therefore, leading to' chains and get them marked with Correct my answer.

The hardest part is not the facts, it is planning your time. Your class slide says Paper 1 lasts 1 hour 10 minutes for 70 marks, and Paper 2 lasts 1 hour 45 minutes for 105 marks.
Do the maths: 70 minutes for 70 marks, and 105 minutes for 105 marks. On both papers that is about one mark per minute.
Why does this matter? Because it tells you how long each answer should take. A 2-mark question needs about 2 minutes, so a short, precise answer. An 8-mark question deserves about 8 minutes, so a developed answer with a named example.
Example: if you spend 15 minutes on a 4-mark question, you have stolen 11 minutes from somewhere else, and you may not finish the paper.
Also remember the weighting: Paper 2 is 60% of the qualification and Paper 1 is 40%, so human geography topics deserve a bigger share of your revision.

Mixing up which paper has which topic: Paper 1 is physical (coasts, hazards); Paper 2 is human (economic activity and energy, urban, fragile environments and climate change).
Forgetting fieldwork: Paper 1 has fieldwork linked to coasts; Paper 2 has fieldwork linked to urban environments. Revise both.
Ignoring the clock: use roughly one mark per minute and move on if you are stuck.
Revising only favourite topics: Paper 2 carries 60%, so do not leave energy or urban topics to the end.
Writing the same length for every question: let the marks tell you how much to write.