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Preparing for decision-making exercises

Many GCSE geography courses have an examined decisionmaking exercise (DME). This Improve Your Grade guides you through how to approach such an exam

In a DME, you are given resources about a place and an issue, which contains options for the future. The topic will be unseen, and will almost certainly be about somewhere you have never studied before. The exam has two sections: a resource booklet with the information you need and a question paper which tests your ability to interpret the information in the resource booklet.

The questions themselves will be similar to other exams: the first ones will be shorter and carry fewer marks, and later questions will be more complex and require extended writing. Such questions often carry 9–12 marks and should take about 10 or 15 minutes to answer.

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