What is an NIC?

A  NIC is a Newly Industrializing Country.  This means that it has developed from an LEDC and is on it’s way to becoming an MEDC.

Remember…. LEDCs have mainly Primary industry(Farming to stay alive), and MEDCs are mainly Tertiary with some Secondary(manufacturing).  NICs are in between!

Examples of NICs are South Korea, India, China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong.   Most NICs are located in East Asia.

What are the advantages of East Asia for Industrial Growth?

1. They have lots of cheap labour.  Wages are low compared to the rest of the world.  Asian workers are reliable and willing to work long hours.
2. Transport is important, most places are very accessible to the major world shipping lanes, and sea transport is a very cheap form of transport.
3. NIC Governments have encouraged MEDC investment in order to kick start their industries.
4. The Market is also important, as over half the world’s population lives in East Asia, so there is a ready market nearby to whom they can sell their products.

What do NIC Industries produce?

A wide range of products: Steel, ships, electrical goods, electronics and computers.

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2. Find a quiet place, with good light and no distractions (mp3- blasting in your head is no good).TV’s MSN also will not get you your grades
3. If you have a desk use it.  If not get something to work on.  A tray or board on your lap will do.
4. Have paper, pens, colours, ruler calculators, revision books, textbooks ready in a box in your quiet place.
5. When the feeling is right, start revision.
6. Find a section of work which you reckon will take 20 minutes to do.
7. Show yourself the actual start and end of the piece of work. e.g. the beginning and end of a chapter or text book section.
8. Scan read as quickly as possible, without trying to remember, all the bold words in the text and headings etc.
9. Now comes the Revision Work:-

• Read and make notes on your chosen section of work.
• Convert written work into drawings/cartoons.
• Convert drawings/diagrams into written descriptions.
• Read an explanation or description, then cover it up and try to write it out, check it when you have finished.
• Do the same, but say/hear it in your head.Doing this pacing around works for me.
• Do the same but see it in your head.
• Convert what you know into a Bubble diagram or mind-map,check later to see what you have missed
• Revise a question, then set your self a time limit to answer it.  Check later.
• Whichever of these ideas you decide to do.  Just do something
• Something is better than nothing.

Remember only do 20 minutes at a time…. but don’t just read through your work/notes/textbook.  Read and do one or 2 of the ideas above !

 After 20 minutes - have a 5-10 break, then browse through the work that you did.  Do the same 1 hour later, 1 day later, 1 week later…..it works.

Practice makes Perfect.

This is my gift - free, to you.

SMH.

P.S. The only problem is…. you have lots of 20 minute chunks of work in Geography to go through.   Make a start now for your exams now and in the summer. Enjoy.

Alternatively…. look at this slideshow->

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If you would like to post your homework to me, rather than do it in your book…. send it via the Email address below.  Then I will mark it, return it as soon as I can.  

  Thanks Mr Herbert.

MrSMHerb@aol.com

Y11 Homework w/e 30/12/07:-

Is to revise all Work done since Y10,in preparation for the mock exams next week +end of Industry Unit test.

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• Not sure about Homework?
• Don’t know when Homework is due in?
• Didn’t understand something in the lessons?
• Bored?

Then try asking the Learned One himself.  Satisfactory responses are not necessarily guaranteed on time.

Would you trust this man with your education?

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Year 11 Mock Exams are upon us all.  Revision and tests and marking.  However, soon be Christmas.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU CHECK OUT THE Y11  HINTS & TIPS PAGE.

Here is the outline of the Geography Mock Examination:-

Wednesday December 5th

Paper 1

Skills questions(possible to revise for,  use the bbc website address below, and go for Geographical Skills)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/geogskills/

Map question (possible to revise for - use link below and download the English version of ‘Map reading made easy peasy’)

 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/education/teachingresources/index.html#mrmep

Tectonic Activity

Glaciation

Coasts

14th December(not sure about these dates - check on your timetable)

Paper 2

Resource Management & Tourism

Industry

Sir’s Advice  is to look at these two Websites to help with your revision->

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=20&d=0

For this s-cool website use the sections on Industry,  Tourism and resources, Tectonics, Coasts and Glaciers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/
For this website use the topics on->Plate Tectonics, Glaciation, Coastal Regions, Economic Activity(not the Farming bits though), Energy and the Environment, Tourism, Geographical skills, Mock Exam.The Geography Audio is useful, it gives  mp3 downloads of most of the topic so you can listen to them and learn them.