What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0460 Geography papers and filtered to water. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on water, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Writing the rivers topic by mistake. Drainage basins, hydrographs, flooding and river landforms earn nothing on a water supply question.
- Naming a method without saying how it works. "Desalination" is a label. "Sea water is forced under pressure through a membrane that holds back the salt" is an answer.
- Giving no named example on the 7 mark question. The mark scheme caps you at 5.
- Naming a country but giving no detail inside it. Level 3 needs schemes, places, dates or figures. "Singapore manages water well" is a Level 2 sentence at best.
- Answering a decision making question with only advantages, or only disadvantages. Both sides are needed and each is capped at three.
- Writing "it is expensive" and stopping. The mark scheme rejects a bare cost point. Say who cannot afford it and what they do instead.
- Writing "it provides drinking water" as an advantage of a supply scheme. That is what every supply scheme does, so it is not a discriminating point.
- Confusing quality with quantity. A treatment plant makes water safe. It does not make more of it.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Water revision notes.