These ten questions practise the skills in assessment-version transitions: labelling guides by year, reading paper structure, checking the fieldwork route, using specimen tasks and auditing notes. All data is invented. Write your own working before you open each answer.
Questions go from easier to harder. Keep a note of the ones you miss in your mistake log and retest queue.
Questions
1. Your centre says you enter in 2027. A guide says “for the 2025 exam”. What label does it get, and what do you do with its paper advice?
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Label: different year. Treat its paper advice as unchecked until you compare it with the syllabus for 2027. Its topic notes can still be read, then compared with your content list.
2. A guide shows no year anywhere. Give the label and one action.
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Label: unchecked. Action: compare each claim with the syllabus for your exam year, and verify only what you find there.
3. You have 16 files and 12 show a year. What percentage show no year?
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16 − 12 = 4. 4 ÷ 16 = 0.25, so 25%. Check: 0.25 × 16 = 4.
4. A made-up paper lasts 60 minutes with 40 marks. How long per mark, and how long for a 5-mark question?
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60 ÷ 40 = 1.5 minutes per mark. 5 × 1.5 = 7.5 minutes. Check: 7.5 ÷ 5 = 1.5.
5. A guide says “physical topics are all in one component”. How do you test this?
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Open the assessment and content sections of your year’s syllabus, find where each physical topic is assessed, and record the page. Accept the claim only if the syllabus shows it.
6. Who confirms whether you follow fieldwork or an alternative route, and where do you read what it tests?
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Your school or exam centre confirms the route. You then read the matching section of the syllabus for your exam year.
7. Five invented site counts are 14, 9, 11, 16 and 10. Find the mean.
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14 + 9 = 23, + 11 = 34, + 16 = 50, + 10 = 60. 60 ÷ 5 = 12. Check: 12 × 5 = 60.
8. Find the median of 7, 3, 9, 5 and 8. Then say whether it changes if 8 becomes 80.
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Ordered: 3, 5, 7, 8, 9. The middle value is 7. With 80 in place of 8 the order is 3, 5, 7, 9, 80, so the median is still 7. A median is not pulled by one extreme value.
9. A town’s population rises from 40,000 to 46,000 in an invented table. A question says “Describe the change”. Write a two-sentence answer with a percentage.
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Increase: 46,000 − 40,000 = 6,000. Percentage: 6,000 ÷ 40,000 = 0.15, so 15%. Check: 40,000 × 0.15 = 6,000.
Answer: “The population rose from 40,000 to 46,000, an increase of 6,000. This is a 15% rise.” It gives figures and no reasons, as the command word asks.
10. An audit of 50 note items finds 35 concepts, 10 instructions and 5 case-study facts. Give each share and say what to do with the instructions and facts.
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Concepts 35 ÷ 50 = 70%. Instructions 10 ÷ 50 = 20%. Facts 5 ÷ 50 = 10%. Check: 70 + 20 + 10 = 100.
Replace the 10 instruction lines after reading the assessment section for your year. Add a date and source to each of the 5 facts, or mark them unverified.
If you got these wrong
| Where you slipped | Go back to |
|---|---|
| Questions 1 to 3: year labels | Identify the examination year |
| Questions 4 and 5: paper structure and timing | Distinguish the paper structure |
| Questions 6 to 8: route, mean and median | Check the fieldwork or coursework route |
| Question 9: command words and percentages | Use current specimen-task guidance |
| Question 10: sorting notes | Keep useful concepts, replace obsolete instructions |
The statistics and distribution explorer gives more practice on means and medians.
What next?
Return to the module page for the study route. If you would like a teacher to mark your working, Geography tuition starts from your own answers.