What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0460 Geography papers and filtered to development. 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 development, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Writing LEDC and MEDC when the 2027 papers use LIC, MIC and HIC.
- Confusing GDP with GNP or GNI. GDP is about place; GNP and GNI are about ownership and residence.
- Quoting total GNP instead of GNP per capita.
- Saying the HDI includes "GNP". Since 2010 it uses GNI per capita.
- Saying an indicator is "inaccurate" without saying whether it overstates or understates development, and for whom.
- Describing a distribution when the question says explain, or explaining when it says describe.
- Giving no named example on a levelled question, which caps the answer at 5 out of 7.
- Naming a country but giving no figure or date. A named example is worth the middle of the ladder; place specific detail is worth the top.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Development revision notes.