VS 2024 Core Geog Sec 4 Prelim Paper 1 Ans Key

This document consists of 18 printed pages (including this cover page). Name Class Register Number GEOGRAPHY (2279/01) 24/S4PRE/GE1 Paper 1 Thursday 22 August 2024 1 hour 45 minutes VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHO OL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHO OL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHO OL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL VICTORIA SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION SECONDARY FOUR Candidates answer on the Question Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and register number on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. You may use a HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs. Do not use paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Answer all question. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. The total number of marks for this paper is 50. Setter: Mr Heng Yan Kai and Mr Kelvin Koh ANSWER SCHEME

2 Answer all questions Victoria School 24/S4PRE/GE1 1 Cluster 1 : Geography in Everyday Life A group of secondary school Geography students went to Pulau Ubin, an offshore island which is also a tourist attraction in Singapore. They wanted to test their hypothesis, ‘More foreign tourists than locals visit Pulau Ubin to enjoy the nature’. They took a bum boat ride across to reach Pulau Ubin’s jetty. Each bum boat ride can take 12 visitors at a time. At the jetty, they carried out their investigation by interviewing the visitors that reached the island by boat. They used random sampling method to choose the visitors that they wish to interview from each bum boat. Altogether, they interviewed a total of 30 foreign visitors and 30 locals. The students carried out their study once during an afternoon of a weekday and another occasion during the weekend. (a) Describe possible risks that the students may encounter in their investigation. [2] Award 1 mark for distinct risk written to a maximum of 2 marks Possible responses include: • The students may fall into the water if they are not careful when boarding and alighting from their boat [1]. • They may injure themselves if they are not careful and slip on the wet grounds of the main jetty when it rains [1] AO 1 (b) Describe how the students carried out the sim