PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — OCR A-level Geography — Whole Specification in Detail — & Answers

PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — OCR A-level Geography — Whole Specification in Detail — Includes Answers
Give your class a rigorous thinking workout while ensuring complete specification coverage. This printable booklet turns every part of the spec into clear, student-friendly tasks with built-in Grade 9 extensions. You also get a full answer set to support self-marking, quick feedback, and targeted intervention. Developed by an experienced UK teacher with the support of AI-assisted planning tools to ensure consistency, clarity and full-spec coverage. Save hours of planning: fully mapped to the whole specification, print-and-go, with answers included.
What’s inside
Whole-spec coverage: all topics, sub-topics, must-know content, misconceptions and key vocabulary mapped across the entire specification in detail.

PIXL strategies: Odd One Out • Always / Sometimes / Never True • Why? Why? Why? (5-deep) • Spot the Mistake • Diamond 9 / Ranking • Link It Up / Connections • Convince Me • What If? • Mini Retrieval (plus optional extras: If This Is the Answer…, Reduce It 30–3–2–1, Causation vs Correlation, Assumption Hunt).

Answers included: model points, sample justifications and marking guidance to make self-assessment easy.

Grade 9 stretch: every section has an Extension Task for analysis, evaluation and comparison.

Student-friendly layout: concise prompts, minimal prep, black-and-white printer-friendly.

Physical Environments: This covers an in-depth study of either coastal or glaciated landscapes, focusing on their processes, landforms, and management. It also examines Earth’s life support systems, including how natural cycles interact and change over time.

Human Geography: Explores “Changing Spaces; Making Places,” which looks at how places are defined and the impacts of economic change. It also covers global systems, including international trade, migration, and the complexities of global governance.

Environmental & Global Issues: This section addresses major global challenges. Topics include climate change, its causes and human responses; disease dilemmas like global spread and management; and hazardous Earth (tectonics and risk). It also touches on ocean systems and the future of food security.

Independent Investigation: This involves a compulsory fieldwork component where students plan, research, and carry out their own investigation, including data collection and analysis.