plumiCollecting data: Edexcel GCSE Statistics questions
Every Edexcel GCSE Statistics exam question on 1d Collecting data, 2019–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 51 questions on Collecting data, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1 Higher, Q5 (14 marks): A council wants to encourage people to use the council leisure centres. The council has put advertisements in the town centres to tell people about the opening
- June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q3 (5 marks): Johan sells tickets for a walking tour, a boat tour and a bus tour. The pictogram shows the number of people who chose each type of tour one Saturday morning in
- June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q4 (4 marks): Louise wants to find out what local residents think about changes to car parking in the local town centre. Louise is going to use a questionnaire. Here is one o
- June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (6 marks): A company offers a number of activities for its employees. Yusra wants to investigate what employees at the company think about the activities. Here is her plan
- June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q11 (11 marks): Benjamin collected data on the results for the male competitors in the Ironman Canada competition in 2022 The incomplete histogram and incomplete grouped freque
- June 2025, Paper 2 Higher, Q2 (5 marks): Elise wants to investigate the relationship between the size of mammals and the size of the fruits and seeds that these mammals eat. This is her plan. Hypothesi
- June 2025, Paper 2 Higher, Q9 (7 marks): A group of homeowners are investigating the level of lead in their tap water. Five homeowners each collected a 100 ml sample of their water at the same time eac
- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (4 marks): A teacher wants to investigate how many hours students spent revising for a test. 20 students have to complete a short questionnaire before they begin the test.
- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q14 (5 marks): A professor of sports science wanted to test if listening to music improved running performance. She tested a sample of 20 adult males. All the males were simil
- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q16 (5 marks): Elise wants to investigate the relationship between the size of mammals and the size of the fruits and seeds that these mammals eat. This is her plan. Hypothesi
- June 2024, Paper 1 Higher, Q5 (11 marks): The management of a factory is considering changing the working hours of their employees. Muhammad and Rose want to get the views of the employees in the factor
- June 2024, Paper 1 Foundation, Q6 (11 marks): The manager of a gym is reviewing the current opening times of the gym. The manager thinks that if the gym is open for more hours it will affect the number of p
- June 2024, Paper 2 Higher, Q6 (9 marks): Researchers investigated the effect of changing land usage on the amount of surface runoff water for areas of land around Brandywine Creek. They recorded the ch
- June 2024, Paper 2 Higher, Q8 (6 marks): Roxann wants to investigate the resting heart rates for members of her running club. She believes that the resting heart rates will be normally distributed. Her
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q7 (7 marks): Chris is a manager at a theme park. He wants to find out what food options visitors would like to be able to buy in the theme park. (a) State the population for
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q9 (3 marks): Mobeen is investigating whether there is a difference in the amount of time spent reading by pupils in Green Park school and pupils at Golden Plains school. He
- June 2023, Paper 1 Higher, Q11 (5 marks): The manager of a large delivery company wants to investigate whether employees have dealt with personal errands whilst at work in the last 6 months. He plans to
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q4 (12 marks): A town council is proposing to build a new leisure centre. Michelle is going to carry out a survey to find out what all the people in the town think of the prop
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (7 marks): The following is an extract from part of a row of a random number list. 68236 35335 71329 (a) Use the random number list to complete the table for the first 5 r
- June 2023, Paper 2 Higher, Q8 (5 marks): A scientist is carrying out an experiment to test the effect of a vitamin on memory. She plans to use matched pairs. (a) Explain what is meant by matched pairs
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (3 marks): A Science teacher wants to know the effects of revision on a student’s performance in an exam. She decides to carry out an experimental test on a group of 15 st
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q14 (6 marks): The choropleth map below represents a park that has been divided into 25 squares of equal area. Arthur has collected data about litter in the park. The number o
- June 2022, Paper 1 Higher, Q3 (9 marks): Weronika works for a road traffic organisation. One day she is investigating the speeds of cars and the speeds of motorcycles along a motorway. Here is part of
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (6 marks): Mrs Singh is the Headteacher of a school with 1200 students. She wants to find out about the ways the students at her school use the internet to complete their
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q14 (9 marks): Weronika works for a road traffic organisation. One day she is investigating the speeds of cars and the speeds of motorcycles along a motorway. Here is part of
- June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q2 (9 marks): Bill investigated the heights of females competing in different sports. Using data from the internet, he recorded the height, in cm, of each female in a sample
- June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q4 (5 marks): A hospital department has three specialist consultants, A, B and C. The department manager uses 2-digit random numbers to carry out a simulation of the number o
- June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q5 (5 marks): An adventure travel company runs expeditions for groups of 20 people. The company provides all the food and equipment for these expeditions. The manager of the
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5 (9 marks): (a) Explain what is meant by a simple random sample. The manager of a health centre is reviewing the amount of time allowed for each patient to be seen by a doc
- November 2021, Paper 1 Higher, Q1 (3 marks): Emily is designing a questionnaire to obtain information about how people in Manchester travel to work. Before she gives out the questionnaire, she is going to
- November 2021, Paper 1 Higher, Q3 (7 marks): John and Susan are investigating films. John wants to find out the favourite type of film of the students at his school. Susan wants to find out which type of f
- November 2021, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (6 marks): Naomi wants to find out what opinions people in her town have about holidays. She designed a questionnaire and gave it to each person in a sample of 30 people w
- November 2021, Paper 1 Foundation, Q10 (7 marks): John and Susan are investigating films. John wants to find out the favourite type of film of the students at his school. Susan wants to find out which type of f
- November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q4 (5 marks): Anne is investigating the effect of caffeine on reaction times. Here is what Anne has written down for her hypothesis and how she plans to collect, process and
- November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q9 (6 marks): A construction company employs three types of employee: builders, carpenters and electricians. The table gives the number of each type of employee. Type of empl
- November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q3 (6 marks): The manager of an art shop wants to find out about the shopping habits of customers in his shop. He wants to find out how many customers leave the shop without
- November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q4 (9 marks): Shona and Luke are investigating housing. Shona wants to find out about the types of house in which people live. She plans to collect data by asking people to t
- November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q13 (5 marks): Anne is investigating the effect of caffeine on reaction times. Here is what Anne has written down for her hypothesis and how she plans to collect, process and
- November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q7 (10 marks): Reeta read a report that said that these days more 18 to 24 year olds find out what is happening in the news from social media than find out by watching TV. She
- November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q5 (6 marks): People who completed higher education were asked what they were doing six months after they graduated. The table shows information about the answers given by th
- November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q6 (7 marks): Sam works in a bank. He wants to survey the people who work at the bank in order to investigate whether there is a relationship between a person’s height and th
- November 2020, Paper 2 Higher, Q4 (5 marks): Matthew is collecting information about road safety in his town. He wants to collect information from drivers who live in his town. Matthew plans to ask drivers
- November 2020, Paper 2 Higher, Q5 (5 marks): A supermarket manager is planning the design of a new petrol station. He wants to use the results of spinning a coin to simulate on which side of a car the fuel
- November 2020, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (9 marks): Mehmet wants to conduct an investigation about school meals at his school. He wants to take a sample of students from his school. (a) Write down a sampling fram
- June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q13 (3 marks): A company wants to investigate the number of sick days its employees have off work. The company uses a questionnaire. Here is one of the questions on the questi
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q6 (6 marks): Inez is going to open a takeaway restaurant in her town. She asks 100 people, “What is your favourite type of takeaway?” (a) Design a data collection sheet for
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (5 marks): Suresh is a secondary school student. He wants to find out how many days off school each teacher has had in the last year. Suresh plans to find out this informa
- June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q7 (11 marks): Susie is investigating the amount of time students at her school spend watching television. She selects a random sample of 50 students from her school and asks
- June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q10 (6 marks): Noah is investigating the reaction times of some athletes. He collects information from 50 athletes and records the data in a spreadsheet. He sorts the data fro
- June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q2 (5 marks): The employees in an office were asked the following question. “How generous do you feel is the amount of time allowed for your lunch break?” This is not a good
- June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q7 (6 marks): Paula organised a fund raising charity run at her school. Here is part of the spreadsheet that she used to record information about each student who took part.
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