Life is about giving and receiving. Now that you guys have been on the receiving end (of these geog notes for free), I have a request for you all – to give back to society in other ways and pass it forward. There are many avenues for you to do so and I am sure some of you are already volunteering at some local organizations. But for those of you who don’t have much time to spare, may I just refer you to a list of links below which allows you to destress a little while helping society.

For those with a few minutes to spare:

Free rice: Aims to provide education to everyone for free and to help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. For each answer you get right in the trivias (ranging from art to geography to english to languages etc.), 10 grains of rice will be donated to the UN World Food Programme to help end hunger.

Charitii.com: Play word game puzzles to donate to the charity of your choice. Choose among donating water, food, education and rainforest.

Free flour: One spoon of flour will be donated for each answer you get right on the site’s geography-based trivia.

Aid to children: For each correct answer given in the English vocabulary trivia, 0.25 cents will be donated to children living in the most impoverished places in the world.

Free poverty: Involves a geography quiz on landmarks in the world. The more accurately you can pinpoint the location, the more cups of water donated.

Help thirst: 1 cup of water will be donated for each number correctly remembered in the memory game.

Care2: Click on any cause you one once a day to help advocate for that cause.

 

For those who wish to volunteer their time and impact beneficiaries directly:

YMCA: I strongly encourage people to join Ycamp (a 4-day camp) which is currently organized biannually but will be organized quarterly in future. If you have more time, you can join Y confdence which is a 6 month programme (meetings once or twice a month) which culminates in Ycamp. YMCA also has other monthly volunteer programmes that include reading, art, dancing, nature, singing and so on.

Welcome!

Glad you found your way here!

Caught in geog is a site which serves as a database for Singapore A level geog students. There are notes, past year questions and case studies waiting for you to digest, so do take your time.

Do check out the other caughtin- sites too on the blogroll to your right. XD

Tried to categorise past year prelim questions into different subgroups. Well I guess it might help if you intend to spot essay questions. XD If you notice, there are certain question types in each subgroup that examiners normally focus on. So if you can come up with an all-encompassing question for each subgroup and memorise your answer to that question, at least you know your content for that subgroup should be enough to tackle questions from that subgroup.

2007 prelims – urbanization

2008 prelims -urbanization

2008 prelims – litho

*The page numbers are just references for the stack of prelim papers I have, so you can ignore it.

Since I’m now busy with a new job on top of tuition assignments, I’ll be posting up geogo crunches issues whenever I’m free to do so. Don’t want to make more empty promises about posting up issues every week. SORRY!

This issue only contains a 9m and 16m question on earthquakes. Geogo crunches issue 2.

Shan’t wait till I’m done with the human geog essay because I don’t know when that’ll happen.

So hopefully the notes will suffice alright? GOOD LUCK!

On a side note, hope you celebrated MOTHER’S DAY well!

Urbanisation essays contributed by shanina

It’s been a long wait. But here it is! Geogo Crunches! Issue 1

Geogo Crunches! will feature 1 physical geography and 1 human geography essay outline each week. It should be published every sunday (I know I’m two days late o.o).

As requested by Shanina, did up a transport essay outline.

It’s based on the A Levels H2 2007 Q8 either.

a) Outline the problems that result from traffic congestion in cities. [9]

b) Assess the extent to which improvement in public transport systems is the key to successful management of transport in urban areas. Use examples from DCs and LDCs to illustrate your answer. [16]

Essay outline for h2 2007 transport question

I prefer learning from the management summary notes, because it consolidates everything. But if you want to know specific examples of volcanoes, like if you want to specifically talk about the Japanese preparedness or the failure of other governments etc, then this set of notes would briefly meet your needs I guess. XD

The volcanoes included are:
Mt St Helens, Nevado Del Ruiz, Montserrat, Pinatubo, Vesuvius, Lake Nyos, Unzen, Sakurajima, Tambora, Krakatoa/Krakatau, Paricutin, Popocatepetl

Volcanoes case studies

Case studies on role of state and supranational bodies. NAFTA and IMF case studies posted up previously already so just check previous entries. This set of notes includes the European Union, Singapore-US Free Trade Agreement, Singapore’s industrialisation process, Suzhou Industrial Park, Singapore Science Park, Silicon Valley and Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.

Role of state and supranational bodies case studies

Brief notes on some of the TNCs that you can use in your essays. I’ve included Ford, Mitsubishi, Nokia, Walmart and Kraft. Nike’s the classic TNC of course, but if everyone’s going to use it, you might want to pick something else to differentiate yourselves from the pack. :p

TNC case studies