BOTSWANA EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education
CANDIDATE
NAME
CENTRE CANDIDATE
NUMBER NUMBER
GEOGRAPHY 1448/04
Paper 4 Written For Examination from 2025
SPECIMEN PAPER
1 Hour 15 Minutes
Candidates answer on the Question Paper
Additional Materials: None
INSTRUCTIONS
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• Write your candidate name, Centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided at the
top of this page and on all work you hand in.
• Write in dark blue or black pen.
• Write your answer to each question in the spaces provided.
• You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working.
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• Electronic calculators may be used.
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INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50. Total
• You may lose marks if you do not show your working or if
you do not use appropriate units.
• The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each
question or part question.
This document consists of 12 printed pages.
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1 Students conducted research amongst visitors to the recreational park as shown below in Fig 1. For
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A simple questionnaire was designed to collect information about visitors to a recreational park. Use
Students used systematic random sampling and asked questions to every tenth person who
passed. 100 people were asked in total. A copy of the questionnaire is shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 1
(a) (i) Describe the steps that the student followed to formulate the topic of study.
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(ii) Describe the location of areas where visitors were interviewed For
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(iii) State two advantages of asking every 10th person.
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(b) Study Fig. 2, which is a questionnaire which the student used to collect information about the For
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VISITOR QUESTIONNAIRE
Name of student: Date:
Time: Weather:
Where do you come from_________________________
Q.1 How long has it taken you to travel to the park today?
Less than 30 mins 30-60 mins 1-2 hours 2hours+
Q2. How long are you going to stay at the park today?
0-3 hours 3-6 hours over 6 hours
Q3. What is your opinion of the facilities provided for the visitors?
Please score the following facilities out of 3
(3 = good, 2 = satisfactory, 1= poor)
Toilets
Litter bins
Signposts to facilities
Footpath signs
Information about the Park
Thank you for your cooperation
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(b) (i) Construct a question for the questionnaire to find out the type of transport visitors used to
reach the park. Write the question and possible answers in the space provided.
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(ii) Describe three advantages of using a questionnaire to collect data. For
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(c) Study Fig 3 which shows the results of Question 2 in the questionnaire.
Q2. How long are you going to stay in the park?
Time taken Number of visitors
Less than 1 hour 5
1 hour to 3 hours 25
3-6 hours 60
Over 6 hours 15
Fig 3
(i) Draw a pie chart showing how long visitors intended to stay in the park. [5]
(ii) Using information in Fig. 3, suggest two conclusions about the length of time that
the visitors stayed in the park.
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(iii) Describe how the length of time that the visitors spend in the park may affect the For
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(d) In Question 3 of the questionnaire, each visitor was asked their opinion of the park’s facilities.
The results are shown in Fig 4.
Q3. Opinions on park facilities
3 2 1
FACILITY Good Satisfactory Poor
Toilets 53 40 7
Litter bins 42 56 2
Signpost to facilities 18 52 30
Footpath signs 12 49 39
Information about the Park 20 33 47
The average score in each category 29 46 25
Fig 4
(i) State the facility that is ranked poorest.
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(ii) Suggest recommendations to the management on how to attract more visitors to the
park.
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2 Students investigated traffic flow in and around the City Centre three times during a For
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weekdays. The results of the traffic count are shown in Fig 5. The students proposed to Use
investigate the following hypothesis:
Hypothesis: There will be variations in the volume of traffic from the city centre at
different times.
(a) Four sites were identified to do a traffic count as shown in Fig 5. The times chosen were 0800,
1300 and 1700. They agreed to work in pairs to count the number of vehicles travelling past the four
survey sites. They decided to conduct each traffic count for 10 minutes.
(i) A tally system was used for recording the vehicles passing each student. Suggest two
reasons why this is a suitable recording method for this investigation.
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(ii) State two reasons why the students decided to work in pairs at each survey site
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(iii) Describe how each pair of students will count traffic at each survey site.
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(iv) Suggest why the students decided to conduct each traffic count for 10 minutes.
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(b) The results of the traffic count are shown in Fig 5. For
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TRAFFIC SURVEY RESULTS Use
Survey Number of vehicles counted in 10-minute period Total number of
site Time 08:00 12:30 17:00 vehicles
Location Into Out of Into the Out of Into Out of Into Out of
Centre of the city centre centre centre centre centre centre
the city Centre of town of city of city of city of city of city
1 X 45 25 33 32 21 56 88 101
2 Y 55 23 45 46 43 65 128 124
3 W 110 102 87 74 66 118 247 292
4 Z 81 55 49 39 44 95 160 181
Fig. 5
(i) Using the information in Fig. 5, describe conclusions about the flow of traffic in and out
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(ii) Based on the student’s results, state whether the hypothesis is confirmed.
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(iii) Suggest reasons that the students might give to support their confirmation of the
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(c) The results show that traffic flow varies at different times of the day in and out of the city centre. For
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(i) Suggest reasons for the variations. _________________________________________ Use
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(ii) State two other methods that could have been used to collect data on city traffic.
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(iii) Suggest improvements to the data collection techniques used in the investigation.
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