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How to approach challenging questions

This Improve Your Grade looks at two ways in which examiners make questions more difficult — and how to get the best marks when you answer them

A volcanic ash cloud from Mount Lokon in North Sulawesi, Indonesia in May 2015. How would you use this example in an answer to Question 1?

If you’re aiming for an A or A* grade in your GCSE geography, you will have to do well in the most demanding questions. Examiners have several ways of making questions harder. One way is to allocate more marks to longer ‘extended writing’ questions, which may be worth 8, 9 or even 12 marks.

But examiners can also make questions more challenging. Two of the ways they do this are:

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