plumiInvestigating changing rural areas: Edexcel GCSE Geography B questions
Every Edexcel GCSE Geography B exam question on Investigating changing rural areas, 2018–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 31 questions on Investigating changing rural areas, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q11(a)(i) (2 marks): Suggest a suitable enquiry question that the students could have investigated. (2) 11 As part of their rural fieldwork a group of students carried out a retail
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q11(a)(ii) (2 marks): Explain one reason why the classification of shops might not be reliable. (2) 11 As part of their rural fieldwork a group of students carried out a retail land-
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q11(a)(iii) (2 marks): Explain one method the students might have used to record the retail land-use in the two towns. (2) 11 As part of their rural fieldwork a group of students carr
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q11(a)(iv) (4 marks): Explain two ways in which the students could have improved their data collection methods. (4) 11 As part of their rural fieldwork a group of students carried ou
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q11(b) (8 marks): You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating how and why the quality of life varies in rural areas. Assess the accuracy and reliability of the results
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q11(a)(i) (2 marks): Explain one method the students could have used to select the rural settlements to carry out their fieldwork. (2) 11 As part of their rural fieldwork a group of
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q11(a)(ii) (4 marks): Explain two reasons why the results of their environmental quality survey might be unreliable. (4) 11 As part of their rural fieldwork a group of students carri
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q11(a)(iii) (2 marks): Explain how one other method of primary data collection might have helped their investigation. (2) 11 As part of their rural fieldwork a group of students carri
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q11(a)(iv) (2 marks): The students concluded that the rural settlement 40 km from the city had the best environment. Explain one piece of evidence to support that conclusion. (2) 11
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q11(b) (8 marks): You have carried out your own fieldwork, investigating how and why deprivation varies within rural areas in the UK. Assess the importance of your own (primary)
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q11(a) (2 marks): Explain one reason for the choice of question or hypothesis that you selected to investigate. (2) 11 You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating envir
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q11(b) (4 marks): Explain two ways that you collected data to investigate the quality of the rural environment. (4) 11 You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating envir
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q11(c) (4 marks): At the end of your geographical investigation you drew conclusions that either supported or did not support your enquiry question or hypothesis. Explain how str
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q11(d) (8 marks): A group of 20 students, divided into two groups of 10, carried out questionnaires in the main street of their local village. They chose to do this on a Saturday
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q11(a)(i) (2 marks): Identify which two words were used most frequently by the residents when describing the village. (2) A quiet B old C tidy D incomers E friendly
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q11(a)(ii) (8 marks): Assess the possible reasons for the variations in the views of this village. (8)
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q11(a) (2 marks): Explain one method the students might have used to measure the environmental quality in these two villages. (2) 11 A group of students carried out an environmen
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q11(b) (8 marks): Evaluate the reliability of this conclusion. (8) 11 A group of students carried out an environmental quality survey in two contrasting villages in their local r
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q11(a) (2 marks): Calculate the ‘Total score’ for Winterbourne Abbott. (2) 11 A group of 20 students carried out fieldwork investigating environmental quality in two contrasting
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q11(b) (2 marks): Explain one method that the students might have used to select the streets that they surveyed. (2) 11 A group of 20 students carried out fieldwork investigating
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q11(c) (2 marks): Suggest one way in which secondary data might have been used in this investigation. (2) 11 A group of 20 students carried out fieldwork investigating environmen
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q11(d) (4 marks): Suggest two reasons why the students concluded that Lower Withering and Winterbourne Abbott had more differences than similarities. (4) 11 A group of 20 student
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q11(e) (8 marks): You have conducted your own fieldwork into the reasons why deprivation varies within rural areas. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the methods that you us
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q11(a) (2 marks): Explain one way in which you used quantitative data to measure differences in the environmental quality of your chosen area. (2) 11 You have carried out your ow
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q11(b) (4 marks): Using an annotated diagram that shows one way in which you presented the results of your data collection, explain your results. (4) 11 You have carried out your
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q11(c) (4 marks): Explain how you would improve your data collection methods to increase their accuracy. (4) 11 You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating environmenta
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q11(d) (8 marks): In 2017 a group of students, divided into three groups, carried out a questionnaire in three different villages located 15km (Village A) , 25km (Village B) and
- June 2018, Paper 2, Q11(a) (2 marks): Explain one reason why you chose that rural area. (2) 11 You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating environmental quality in a rural area. Name your
- June 2018, Paper 2, Q11(b) (4 marks): Using an annotated sketch map, explain how you chose your sites or location for data collection. (4) 11 You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating en
- June 2018, Paper 2, Q11(c) (4 marks): Explain why the conclusions that you reached might be unreliable. (4) 11 You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating environmental quality in a rural
- June 2018, Paper 2, Q11(d) (8 marks): In 2017 a group of 20 students carried out questionnaires in a rural area on a Wednesday afternoon. They asked 40 randomly selected residents to select the thre
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