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Preparing for your geography fieldwork

Fieldwork is an exciting and essential part of studying geography. In your GCSE exams you will answer questions on both ‘familiar’ and ‘unfamiliar’ fieldwork. While the familiar fieldwork questions will ask you about the two fieldwork days that you’ve completed, the unfamiliar fieldwork questions will include information from a fieldwork enquiry that other students have carried out and which you will not have seen before.

Photograph showing students performing geography fieldwork
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To maximise your success in exam questions on ‘familiar’ and ‘unfamiliar’ fieldwork, you need to know the different stages of the fieldwork process and what each stage involves. This article will give you an overview of the fieldwork process and what you need to consider at each stage.

Geographers carry out fieldwork to find out new things about people, places and environments. Fieldwork begins by asking a geographical question and we call this an enquiry question. This is the main question that the researcher is trying to find an answer to.

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