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Ten tips to improve data interpretation

Many of the questions you encounter in your geography exams are datastimulus, testing your ability to understand geographical information presented in different ways. This Question and Answer looks at ways to improve your interpretation skills and write answers that maximise your marks

Figure 1 Development data for four South American countries (2017)

No other subject has such a wide range of types of data that you might be expected to interpret in the exam.Geography exams can include graphs of all types, maps at all scales, tables of data, photographs, diagrams, passages of text, and many other sources of data. In a typical A-level geography exam between 25% and 40% of the available marks are linked to questions of the type that start ‘Study Figure 1....’. These are data-stimulus questions.

Being able to interpret geographical data has a big impact your overall mark.

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