What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Cambridge IGCSE papers and filtered to population. 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 population, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Forgetting migration, population change is not just births minus deaths.
- Saying an ageing population is caused only by people living longer; the falling birth rate matters just as much.
- Confusing a falling birth rate with a falling population, a population can still grow.
- Saying population growth is always bad; a larger labour force and market are genuine advantages.
- Defining optimum population as the population a country can "fit", rather than the one maximising output per head.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Population revision notes.