Oxford IB Geography Study Guide

[masochist]

Its a really expensive book so I was wondering whether or not its worth the money. Does anyone have it? Is it very helpful?

[Asheee]

Hello,

I did use it when I was in my final year of IB but I borrowed mine from the school library. It was a really good book for revision, so I would say yes. But maybe see if you can download it or borrow it instead of buying it?

[masochist]

Yeah I'm looking really hard for a locally available book/library book/.pdf / a torrent or whatever but even though there are really easily downloadable or borrowed or bought ones for essentially every other subject the geography one is not available anywhere except online x___________x.

It's really annoying but I guess it just isn't that popular a subject? idk

Does anyone know where I could obtain a .pdf or a torrent?

[rocking bych]

please try torrent sites like piratebay.com or just search on google like searchtitle+torrent or searchtitle+.pdf ..!! good luck!!

[exploretheworld]

If you want to get the book at least go and buy it, that way you are allowing the company to make it for future IB people to have a book to revise from. Its not THAT expensive on amazon...

The oxford revision guides are really good ! they are detailed and work really well as last minute- night before revision/ looking over as it not as massive as a textbook or your notes. Personally I revise from revision guides and the textbooks, never my notes but maybe thats just me. You can use it as a quick check as well if you need to remember something and its not in your note.

[gkong]

I recently bought one;

It's a great summary and reference, but I have only studied options for year 1 so I can't tell for the core topics. Options seems fairly well covered, could be more extensive but it's a study guide.

The great thing is it has boxes of case studies, and a lot extension links you can visit.

Overall pretty good.

[kingdomx]

My school always use the best textbooks, and I've seen that book around the school, so my school must use it. Therefore, it must be a reasonably decent textbook.

[IBHerpDerp]

It's a bit silly to say that one can't identify the core topics, since they're listed and divided into three distinct parts in the book - Core themes, optional themes, and the higher level extension.

I just wrote all three of my Geography HL papers, and I can't say much more than that- but I can say this: of all my courses, buying the Geography study guide was the best decision of my IB career. Far more useful than a biology, chemistry or even math study guide is - pretty much everything you read is directly applicable.

If you're in first year, ask your teacher if your class can get together and do a bulk purchase, educators can get special discounts!