IGCSE Geography Course

AO1 Knowledge with understanding

Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

The wide range of processes, including human actions, contributing to the development of

1. (a) physical, economic, social, political and cultural environments and their associated effects on the 
landscape;
(b) spatial patterns and interactions which are important within these environments;

2. the inter-relationships between people’s activities and the total environment and an ability to seek 
explanations for them;
3. the importance of scale (whether local, regional or global) and the time at which spatial distributions and 
the working of systems are considered;
4. the changes which occur through time in places, landscapes and spatial distribution.

AO2 Skills and analysis

Candidates should be able to:

5. analyse and interpret geographical data;
6. use and apply geographical knowledge and understanding to maps and in verbal, numerical, 
diagrammatic, pictorial, photographic and graphical form;
7. use geographical data to recognise patterns in such data and to deduce relationships; 
8. select and show understanding of techniques for observing and collecting data;
9. select and use techniques for organising and presenting data

AO3 Judgement and decision making

Through their geographical training candidates should be able to:

10. reason, make judgements (including evaluation and conclusions) which demonstrate, where appropriate

(a) a sensitivity to, and a concern for, landscape, the environment and the need for sustainable 
development;
(b) an aesthetic appreciation of the earth including its people, places, landscapes, natural processes and 
phenomena;
(c) an appreciation of the attitudes, values and beliefs of others in cultural, economic, environmental, 
political and social issues which have a geographical dimension;
(d) an awareness of the contrasting opportunities and constraints of people living in different places and 
under different physical and human conditions;
(e) a willingness to review their own attitudes in the light of new knowledge and experiences;

11. recognise the role of decision making within a geographical context as affected by

(a) the physical and human contexts in which decisions are made;
(b) the values and perceptions of groups or individuals;
(c) the choices available to decision makers and the influences and constraints within which they 
operate;
(d) the increasing level of global interdependence.