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Name: Index Number: Class: CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL Preliminary Examination Secondary 4 (O-Level Programme) GEOGRAPHY 2279/01 Additional Materials: Insert 27 August 2025 1 hr 45 mins READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, index number and class on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. You may use a soft pencil for any rough working. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. DO NOT WRITE ON THE MARGINS. Answer all questions. For examiner’s use only: Question 1 / 20 m Question 2 / 15 m Question 3 / 15 m Total / 50 marks 1. Write all answers on this booklet. 2. You may use the additional pages at the back of this booklet, where necessary. 3. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This document consists of 12 printed pages and 2 blank pages. [Turn over

2 ©CHS 2025 Answer all questions. 1 Geography in Everyday Life A group of students are interested to investigate the importance of community spaces to residents in a neighbourhood in Singapore. The students believe that community spaces play an important part in building a strong sense of place as residents will interact and build bonds with one another. Study Fig. 1.1 (Insert), which shows a map of Punggol estate that students have selected to conduct their investigation. The students decided to test their hypothesis: ‘Community spaces provide opportunities for residents to interact and build a strong sense of place’, by conducting a questionnaire survey and also asking respondents to draw a mental map of the sites that provide them with a sense of place. (a) (i) Their teacher commented that the hypothesis can be improved on. Suggest how the students can improve their hypothesis [2] Answer: • Geographical focus – students can indicate which town/areas they are referring to • Specific – students can indicate which community spaces they are looking at , such as One Punggol • Specific – students can indicate which age groups of residents they are examining • Comparison – students can do a comparison between locations, types of community spaces, responses between different age groups Accept other plausible answers (ii) With reference to Fig. 1.1, explain how students can collect the data required for their investigation. [5] Answer: • [Where] Students can identify which areas/locations to sample residents e.g. Town Centre and Punggol Settlement, which are commercial and/or recreational places • [Who] Students should find out first if the survey respondents are residents of Punggol for relevance • [How many respondents] Students can determine a fixed number of respondents to survey at each location using a sampling method e.g. stratified sampling to gather from different age groups so that data is not biased • [What] Students can record the dat a on recording sheets , survey forms or take photos of people using the community spaces and for what purposes • [When] Students can identify the timings and the number of times they should collect data, including across weekdays and weekends where possible Accept other plausible answers

3 ©CHS 2025 (iii) Suggest why asking the respondents to draw a mental map might be useful to the students’ hypothesis. [2] Answer: • Mental maps will be able to show how people experience and perceive places. • Students will be able to identify whether the places drawn by respondents will fall into the category of community places e.g. recreational spaces or commercial spaces • Mental maps can further support the data collected by students. (b) Suggest two safety measures that the students need to put in place before they embark on their data collection. [2] Answer: • Students must work in groups of at least 2 students • Students must hydrate themselves • Students must seek shelter in the event of rain and/or lightning Accept other plausible answers (c) The students did a quick survey of the frequency in which residents visited Punggol Point Park. The data collected is presented in Table 1. Table 1 Frequency of visit Number of respondents Less than once a month 30 1 – 2 times a month 45 3 – 4 times a month 25 5 or more times a month 20 Present the data in the pie chart below. [3]

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5 ©CHS 2025 (d) Study Fig. 1.2 (Insert), which shows two questions in the questionnaire that the students used to collect 50 responses from each age group of respondents. From these questions, the students tabulated the results into Table 2 (Insert) and Fig. 1.3 (Insert). Using information from Table 2 and Fig. 1.3, evaluate how well the data supports the students’ hypothesis of ‘Community spaces provide opportunities for residents to interact and build a strong sense of place. [6] Answer: Supports • Community spaces certainly provided opportunities for meeting friends/social interaction as shown by Punggol Town Centre (143) and Punggol Waterway Park (128) had the highest responses for this reason • Community spaces, especially recreational spaces such as Punggol Waterway Park (176) were popular for exercising and this may also involve indirect interaction such as group exercise or sharing of spaces for exercising • Dining and shopping score relatively high as Punggol Town Centre (172) and Northshore Plaza (98) are places where many respondents visit and these activities can be considered social activities where interaction takes place • Recreational spaces, especially Punggol Waterway Park (75) had consistently high sense of place scores across all age groups (1 mark), with older respondents from 46-65 years old and above 65 years old showing high sense of place scores of 22 and 23 respectively (1 mark) • Commercial spaces, like Punggol Town Centre (84) also had high sense of place scores, but the scores came mainly from the younge st age group (1 mark) with a score of 30 from the 16-25 years old group but only 17 from the 46-65 age group. Does not support • Northshore Plaza (37) and Punggol Point Park (24) provided some opportunities for meeting friends/social interaction but to a lesser extent. This could be because they are relatively further from the main transport lines as compared to Punggol Town Centre and Punggol Waterway Park • Punggol Point Park had a low overall sense of place ( 21) suggesting that not all community spaces are successful at creating a strong sense of place. Alternative if really need to be lenient • Community spaces do provide opportunities for residents to interact, as seen in the high number of respondents visiting these spaces to meet friends, shop, dine, or exercise. • However, the extent to which these spaces build a strong sense of place varies by age group and space type. • Recreational spaces like Punggol Waterway Park foster a stronger and more widespread sense of place, especially among older residents,

6 ©CHS 2025 • while commercial spaces like Punggol Town Centre are more meaningful to younger residents. Minimum of 1 point from each source Minimum of 2 data points required. Cap at max of 4 marks without data

7 ©CHS 2025 2 Tourism (a) Study Fig. 2.1 (Insert), which shows the trend of international tourist arrivals from 1990 to 2024. (i) Describe the trend of international tourist arrivals from 1990 to 2015 [3] Answer: • There is a general increase from 1990 to 2015 • as international tourist arrivals increased from slightly under 500m in 1990 to about 1250m in 2015 • There were two times when international tourist arrivals dropped, when the SARS epidemic occurred (-2m) and when the financial crisis occurred (-37m) • There wa