What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0460 Geography papers and filtered to changing populations. 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 changing populations, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Giving no named example on a 7 mark question. The mark scheme caps you at 5 by rule.
- Naming a country and then writing nothing specific about it. Level 3 needs figures, dates or places within the country.
- Describing a population policy when the question asked for its impacts. One mark scheme states "Description of policy only = 0".
- Describing the impacts when the question asked for the policy. That mark scheme says development should refer to the policy, not the impacts.
- Giving positive effects when the question asks only for problems. One mark scheme states "Positive effects = 0".
- Writing about the migrants when the question asks about the impacts on the countries.
- Covering only push factors, or only pull factors, when the question says to refer to both.
- Confusing immigrant and emigrant, and confusing refugee with economic migrant.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Changing populations revision notes.