The management of natural increase: past paper questions
Real questions on the management of natural increase
The newest 13 of 13 written questions. Open one to see it on the real paper.
- 9696/23 · October/November 2024 · Q4b[8]
For your case study of one country’s population policy, explain why there was a need to manage natural increase.
See it on the paper → - 9696/23 · October/November 2024 · Q4c[15]
For your case study in (b), assess the success of the attempts to manage natural increase. Migration
See it on the paper → - 9696/23 · October/November 2023 · Q4c[15]
‘Management of natural increase is the best way to achieve optimum population for an area.’ With the aid of examples, how far do you agree with this statement? Population/Migration/Settlement dynamics
See it on the paper → - 9696/22 · May/June 2023 · Q4c[15]
‘The main impact of an ageing population on a country is social.’ With the aid of examples, how far do you agree? Population/Migration
See it on the paper → - 9696/21 · May/June 2021 · Q4a(i)[3]
Describe how to calculate dependency ratio.
See it on the paper → - 9696/21 · May/June 2021 · Q4a(ii)[4]
Explain why the dependency ratio may vary within a country.
See it on the paper → - 9696/21 · May/June 2021 · Q4b[8]
With the aid of examples, explain why the dependency ratio is changing in many LICs.
See it on the paper → - 9696/22 · May/June 2020 · Q4a[7]
outline the difficulties that led to the policy
See it on the paper → - 9696/22 · May/June 2020 · Q4b[8]
explain the attempted solution(s) to these difficulties
See it on the paper → - 9696/22 · May/June 2020 · Q4c[15]
evaluate the success of the country’s population policy. Migration
See it on the paper → - 9696/21 · May/June 2019 · Q4c[15]
For the country chosen in (b), evaluate the success of the population policy. Migration
See it on the paper → - 9696/22 · May/June 2019 · Q4a(i)[3]
Explain the concept of optimum population.
See it on the paper → - 9696/22 · May/June 2019 · Q4b[8]
Explain the role of constraints in relation to sustaining population.
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What examiners said
This question was about issues involved in balancing population and resources, but few candidates looked beyond the element of ‘managing natural increase’. Consequently these answers were unbalanced and gave little scope for evaluation. Many responses were based on a detailed account of China’s One Child policy. These answers lacked focus on the question and rarely gained more than half marks. Be...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9696/23 Q4(c) (Cambridge)
Most candidates used Japan as their example, but other countries were also used such as China and European countries. A range of impacts were described but few were able to give detail specific to their examples and simply gave generic descriptions of impacts that could apply to any country, and this limited their access to higher level marks. Many candidates did not distinguish clearly between s...
— Examiner report, May/June 2023, 9696/22 Q4(c) (Cambridge)
This was well known and usually took the form of a sum with correct indication of the various age groups times 100. Some candidates inverted the sum with dependent age groups as the divider.
— Examiner report, May/June 2021, 9696/21 Q4(a)(i) (Cambridge)
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