What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0460 Geography papers and filtered to changing towns and cities. 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.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on changing towns and cities, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Giving no named urban area on a 7 mark question. Every mark scheme in this topic caps you at 5 out of 7.
- Naming a country where the question asks for a named urban area or a named rural area. The mark scheme states that a country name is unacceptable.
- Naming a city but giving no detail inside it. Level 3 needs districts, scheme names, figures and dates.
- Double crediting a push and its matching pull. "Few jobs in the countryside" and "more jobs in the city" is one idea. The mark schemes say so explicitly, in every session.
- Answering "causes of urban growth" with migration only, and forgetting natural increase.
- Stopping at the noun. "No sanitation" and "disease" were marked as worth nothing or too vague. "No sanitation, so sewage contaminates the water supply and cholera spreads" earns the mark.
- Writing "health problems" or "it is toxic" for air pollution. Name the illness: asthma, bronchitis, lung cancer.
- Confusing the level of urbanisation with the rate of urban growth.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Changing towns and cities revision notes.