National 5

Geography · National 5

Physical and human environments, global issues and geographical skills, including map work.

The course

What Geography is about

Geography links the physical and human worlds: landscape-forming processes, weather and climate, population, urban change and global inequality, with map, graph and fieldwork skills throughout.

Where it leads

What it offers you

Fieldwork and data skills that lead into geography, environmental science, planning and earth science degrees and careers.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

2026

4 files

Marking instructions

2025

3 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2024

4 files

Marking instructions

2023

4 files

Marking instructions

2022

4 files

Marking instructions

SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Geography National 5 on sqa.org.uk.

All Geography levels