MI H2 GEO (9751 02) Answers

Class Adm No Candidate Name: [Turn over 2018 Preliminary Exams Pre-University 3 GEOGRAPHY 9751/02 Paper 2 Data Response Questions 10 September 2018 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper 1 Insert World Outline Map INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your name, admission number and class on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams, graphs, or rough working. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Candidates answer all questions. The Insert contains all the Resources referred to in the questions. You should make reference to appropriate examples studied in the field or the classroom, even where such examples are not specifically requested by the question. Diagram and sketch maps should be drawn whenever they serve to illustrate an answer. The world outline map may be annotated and handed in with relevant answers. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. ___________________________________________________________________ This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 Insert. [Turn over

2 Section A Theme 4: Geographical Investigation (a) Suggest a research question for the investigation based on Resource 1 and state how the research question might be suitable for the investigation. [4] 1m – Suitable research question: How has the setting up of Rolls-Royce’s R&D facility at Seletar affected the residents and businesses of Seletar and Punggol? Suitability of RQ: 1m: Geographical manageability: Punggol is a housing estate adjacent to Rolls-Royce facility and Seletar is the area where Rolls-Royce is located and can be segmented into suitable areas for data collection by the twenty students to collect relevant data based on the residents’ and businesses’ experiences with Rolls Royce in various areas. 2m: Temporal manageability: The students can focus on collecting secondary data and primary data, such as number of employment generated for residents staying in Punggol and Sengkang from the year of the setting up of Rolls-Royce’s R&D facility to today or identify businesses which have been operating before the setting up for Rolls-Royce facility to for interviews. Point marked Marker’s Report: • Some students are still unable to provide manageable RQs, although most were able to score 1m for this. • Suitability of RQ lacked elaboration. For e.g., there is a need to elaborate on the types of data that might be appropriate to collect based on the area of research and why is that suitable. (b) Suggest an appropriate plan to collect primary data in the area as represented in Resource 1. [7] Indicative content: Data needed: o Primary data: Through quantitative surveys for residents and businesses to find out the impacts of setting up of Rolls Royce (RR) has on them, such as possibility of traffic congestion due to the setting up of the plant (for residents) and increase of earnings due to setting up of RR (for businesses). A survey will be most appropriate as it is easy to administer and does not take up very much time. Likert scale can be used as it is the easiest to understand and used by the mass public. There could also be interviews and focus group discussions with identified residents and businesses in Punggol and Seletar to find out about the impacts of setting up of RR on the residents and businesses in a more in-depth manner (such as interviewing a resident who works at RR, and businesses who have/have not benefitted from the setting up for RR in Seletar). o Appropriate sampling method: e.g. For students, convenience sampling is probably most accessible and easiest of the sampling method for them. Simple random sampling or stratified random sampling will be very difficult

3 to carry out as access to employees’ and residents’ information is restricted. o Secondary data: No. of jobs generated for Punggol residents since the setting up for RR facility. No. of forward or backward linkage suppliers of RR located in Seletar. • Limitations: e.g. Students might need information from Rolls Royce itself but the company might not want to divulge information to these students due to confidentiality and sensitivity of the information. When interviewing businesses, it may also be easier to gather information from establishments such as restaurants/cafes/eateries as compared to gathering information from the business in the forward and backward linkages of RR as they may deem such information to be confidential and sensitive as well. Research ethics: e.g. listing the key points that would be shared with the survey respondents about their research purpose, anonymity of respondents. Risk mitigation: need to manage safety of the students e.g. stop fieldwork before sunset, use appropriate language during interviews, work in pairs Levels marked • L1/1-2m: Type of data needed unclear/not stated; methods chosen may not be appropriate. Context of research not considered. • L2/3-5m: Considers at least 4 of the above points, although not responses for all points are valid/well-considered. • L3/6-7m: Considers all aspects and contexts of planning for investigation. Marker’s Report: • Many obtained low L2 because while there was information on what data to collect and how to collect, there was not much justification/elaboration on why the data would be collected in the manner described. • Many did not really use the information provided in the question stem to help them to elaborate on their plan. • Many provided brief explanation  unclear response (c) Suggest how students could supplement the information and findings presented in Resource 2 to find out more about Rolls-Royce’s impact on local industries. [5] Indicative content: • Should include information to better understand the extent to which the collaborations have impacted locals, such as number of people who has participated in the partnerships for each local institutions and out of these, how many of them are locals. There should also be more information on the income generated or added due to such collaborations, such as from Singapore Airlines Engineering Company whose employees have participated in the collaboration to advance their skills in the aerospace industry and also from those who have participated in the collaboration with WDA’s new aerospace manufacturing programmes. • The information provided in R2 is surely inadequate to assess impact of RR on local industries as there is no information on the local private institutions that RR might have worked with. Such private institutions include private

4 training establishments. For example, 4 out of 5 of the listed collaborations are with public institution and even the TNC stated is a state-linked corporations. More could be gleaned if more information on RR’s collaboration with private firms or institutions. • Finally, there should be more comprehensive information on the type of forward and backward linkages that RR has provided to the local suppliers in aerospace and other related industries. This should enable one to have a fuller overview of the types and depth of economic impact that setting up an R&D research facility which is of higher value-addednes