plumiTypes of data: Edexcel GCSE Statistics questions
Every Edexcel GCSE Statistics exam question on 1b Types of data, 2019–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 38 questions on Types of data, as a list
- 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 2 Higher, Q8 (7 marks): In world athletics, an athlete’s personal best results in different track and field events are recorded. Zara wants to compare a sample of athletes’ longest rec
- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q7 (2 marks): Leya has collected data about 15 butterflies. The table gives information about the length of time, in days, each butterfly lived. Length of time lived Frequenc
- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q9 (5 marks): Mandeep visited Marple Wood Farm and tallied the types of animals he saw. (a) Circle the word in the list below that best describes the type of data for the typ
- 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, Q17 (6 marks): Divyesh is investigating the number of games won by two Los Angeles basketball teams, the Clippers and the Lakers. He collects some data from the NBA website. (
- June 2024, Paper 1 Higher, Q7 (8 marks): Roberta is investigating how the ages of brides getting married in the UK has changed from 2003 to 2013 She collects official data from the internet using the w
- June 2024, Paper 1 Foundation, Q3 (8 marks): The tables show information about the number of episodes and viewing figures for two television programs, Emmerdale and Eastenders, for the years 2015 to 2018 E
- June 2024, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (9 marks): A fjord is a deep and narrow part of a sea with steep land on three sides. Emily is investigating the length of fjords in Norway. She collects some data from th
- June 2024, Paper 2 Higher, Q1 (4 marks): Matthew is investigating average household income for different states in the USA. (a) Give a reason why it is appropriate to use secondary data for this. Matth
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (4 marks): Matthew is investigating average household income for different states in the USA. (a) Give a reason why it is appropriate to use secondary data for this. Matth
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (10 marks): Kyle is investigating the heights and the weights of professional basketball players. He found the weight, in kilograms, of some professional basketball players
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q1 (6 marks): The incomplete comparative bar chart shows the total number of medals won by three of the countries that took part in the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics. Number
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q6 (5 marks): Connie is going to write a report on the difference in total rainfall between London and Aberdeen in 2019 She collects secondary data to investigate this. This
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (6 marks): Sam used the internet to collect the times, in minutes, it took for 50 cyclists to compete in a hill climb competition. He used a group frequency table to recor
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q4 (3 marks): Alexa needs to know the population of California. Using the internet, Alexa found that an estimate for the population of California in 2019 is 39.5 million peop
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (8 marks): Dylan investigates the ages of 150 people at a music festival. The youngest person at the festival is 21 years old and the oldest person is 68 years old. Dylan
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q10 (9 marks): 120 adults were each asked if they enjoy watching any of the sports Football, Cricket or Rugby. The Venn diagram gives information about the numbers of these ad
- June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q3 (11 marks): Irina is investigating whether the percentage of the population of a country living in urban areas has an effect on the life expectancy in that country. (a) Sug
- June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q7 (8 marks): Andy is investigating the lateness of the trains that arrive at Manchester Piccadilly. (a) Explain why it is sensible for Andy to collect secondary data for his
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q11 (11 marks): Irina is investigating whether the percentage of the population of a country living in urban areas has an effect on the life expectancy in that country. (a) Sug
- November 2021, Paper 1 Foundation, Q3 (7 marks): Julie asked 20 of her friends how many days last week they each played a sport. Here are her results. 3 4 5 3 2 2 3 3 2 5 1 0 1 0 2 3 3 2 5 3 (a) Which word fro
- November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q1 (5 marks): Ben is investigating how far people travel to work each day. He asks the people in his office how far, in miles, they travel to work each day. The grouped frequ
- 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, Q8 (8 marks): Diana is investigating the numbers of wolf pups in wolf dens and the numbers of fox pups in fox dens. She collected data from the internet. Data collected from
- November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q1 (4 marks): A presenter wants to get feedback on a lecture that she gave. There were 467 students at the lecture. The presenter plans to give a questionnaire to a sample of
- 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 1 Foundation, Q10 (4 marks): A presenter wants to get feedback on a lecture that she gave. There were 467 students at the lecture. The presenter plans to give a questionnaire to a sample of
- November 2020, Paper 2 Higher, Q2 (10 marks): Mike is investigating whether or not there is a relationship between the distance from the nearest car park to a restaurant and the annual profit made by the re
- November 2020, Paper 2 Higher, Q10 (6 marks): Kate is investigating the lengths of earthworms. She wants to find out if the lengths of common earthworms can be modelled by a normal distribution. She has fou
- November 2020, Paper 2 Foundation, Q2 (4 marks): The bar line graph gives information about the total rainfall, in mm, in the UK for each month in 2017 140 120 100 Total 80 rainfall (mm) 60 40 20 0 Jan Feb Mar
- November 2020, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (10 marks): Mike is investigating whether or not there is a relationship between the distance from the nearest car park to a restaurant and the annual profit made by the re
- June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q5 (5 marks): Chris is carrying out an experiment to see if left handed people have a better memory than right handed people. He has two groups of people with the same number
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q3 (7 marks): Lena is researching information about the numbers of British Oscar winners. Here are her results, giving the number of British Oscar winners for each of the yea
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q5 (3 marks): Jane collected data about the earnings of the 10 highest earning male tennis players and the 10 highest earning female tennis players. Jane plans to use a scatt
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (4 marks): Mike owns a shop. He wants to collect information about the types of games liked by people in his town. The following list gives the information he is going to
- June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q4 (4 marks): Randall used the internet to find the number of points scored by each of the winning teams in the last 30 years of the American Super Bowl. He drew this stem an
- 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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