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O-LevelGeographyPopulation and settlementMay/June 2016Paper 2 Q830 Marks

Students were doing fieldwork in their local town centre. They wanted to find out how the main shopping street had changed and what people who came to shop in the town centre thought about shopping here. They tested the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: Shops and services on the main shopping street have changed between 1981 and 2012. Hypothesis 2: Most people in the local area have positive opinions about shopping in the town centre.

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About This O-Level Geography Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Geography (2217) May/June 2016 examination, Paper 2 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Population and settlement and is worth 30 marks.

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