Foundation November 2018 Paper 2 Q16
16.
(a)
Alfie wants to find out how much time teenagers spend watching television.
He plans to visit the local library in the morning to survey 20 people.
Why is Alfie’s plan not suitable? [1]
(b)
Shona is designing a questionnaire to find out about the number of hours students spend on their homework. She asks the following question.
| How many pieces of homework do you have? ☐ 1 - 3 ☐ 3 - 5 ☐ 6 - 8 ☐ 9+ |
Give two criticisms of this question. [2]
First criticism
Second criticism
| Scheme | Marks | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Appropriate reason given, e.g. ‘only 20 people asked’, ‘should ask more people’, ‘teenagers may not be at the library at this time’, ‘we don’t know what is meant by “too much”’, | E1 | Allow e.g. ‘teenagers who are at the library may not watch much TV’. |
Possible misprint (note from Westie's Workshop)
- The example answer ‘we don’t know what is meant by “too much”’ uses words that are not in this question. It looks left over from an earlier version of the question; the other example reasons are fine.
We have left the board's wording exactly as printed. Original: see the board's mark scheme PDF (link above).
| Scheme | Marks | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Two criticisms from: ‘no time period specified’, ‘it doesn’t find out about the number of hours’, ‘3 overlaps’, ‘no zero’ | E2 | Allow ‘9+ is too vague’ |
| (3) |