BOTSWANA EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education

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SOCIAL STUDIES 0585/03

Paper 3 October/November 2018
1 hour
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1 The extract from a research below shows the number of learners with disability in
Botswana in 2008. Use it to answer the questions that follow.

Type of
Form 1 Form 2 Form 3 Form 4 Form 5 Form 6 Total %
disability
Visual 444 79 284 148 82 - 1,037 29.6

Physical 66 64 46 13 - - 189 16.5

Hearing 126 70 27 - 17 - 240 16.8

Speech 185 4 122 30 30 - 371 13.1

Mental
171 40 46 7 - 5 269 5.0
handicap
Others 55 75 48 20 7 - 205 9.0

Multi 30 - 157 - - - 187 10.0

Total 1,077 332 730 218 136 5 2,498 100.0

Source: Education Statistics 2008.

(a) Suggest a suitable title for the research study.

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(b) Which method of data presentation has been used by the researcher?

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(c) Which form of disability is the most common?

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(d) State any two institutions that the researcher could have visited in order to collect the
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(e) State any two types of disability found in Form 5.

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(f) (i) What is the general trend of the number of learners with disability as one moves
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(ii) Suggest any two reasons for this trend.

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(g) Explain any three recommendations that can be made based on the research data.

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(h) Suggest any two factors that could lead to disability.

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(i) Draw a bar graph to present the types of disability shown in Form 1 only.

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2 Elections were held in country X in 2016. The country had a total of 120, 000 people of
the voting age and only 80, 000 people had registered to vote. Of the 80, 000 people who
had registered to vote only 50, 000 people did vote. Maria realised that people were not
interested in voting for the leaders of their choice and decided to do a research on this
problem.

(a) Suggest a suitable hypothesis for Maria’s research.

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(b) State three possible aims of the study.

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(c) Explain three possible findings related to the aims in (b).

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(d) State any three possible conclusions that can be drawn from the study.

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(e) Suggest any three problems that Maria may encounter when carrying out her
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(f) State any three recommendations that can be made on the basis of the research.

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(g) State any two institutions that Maria might visit in order to collect her data.

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(h) (i) Which method of data collection would be best suited for Maria’s research?

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(ii) State any two reasons why the method in (h)(i) is the best.

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(iii) State one disadvantage of using the data collection method in (h)(i).

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