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FORM TP 201s110 MAY/JUNE 2015
CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
CARJBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATEO
EXAMINATION
SOCIALSTTJDIES
Paper 01 - General Proficiency
I how 15 minutes

28 MAY 201s (p.m.)

READ TI{E' FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

l. This test consists of 60 items. You will have I hour and 15 minutes to answer them.

In addition to this test booklet, you should have an answer sheet.

.'. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C)' (D). Read each item
you are about to answer and decide which choice is best.

4. On your answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the space
having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below

Samole Item

Which of the following tems is used to

identiff lines of descent dlrongh the father? Samole Answer

(A) Matrilineal @o@@

(B) Patrilineal
(C) Matriarchal
(D) Patriarchal

The best answer to this item is "Patrilineal," so (B) has been shaded'

5. Ifyou want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in your new choice'

6. When you are told to begin, tum the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you can'
If you cannot answer an item, go on to the next one. You may retum to that item later'
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 Lloyd invited his mother to live with him, Which of the following is LEAST likely to
his wife and two sons. The new familv be a concem for adolescents in the family?
structur€ would be termed
(A) Coping with their emotional
(A) nuclear problems
(B) extended (B) Comrnunicating with adults in the
(C) joint family home
(D) single parents (C) Providing financial support for the
home
(D) Balancing academic and sociai
t Which of the following are aspects of the activities
socialization process?

I. Religious teaching In the Caribbean, fathers have accepted

II. Reproduction more responsibility for child rearing
III. Recreationalactivity MAINLY because of the

(A) I and II only

(A) early death of mothers
(B) I and III only
(B) increase in the divorce rate
(C) Il and III only
(C) high unemployment rate offathers
(D) I, II and III
(D) increase in the number of s'orking
mothers

3. Which of the following is NOT a typical 7. Which of the following BEST explains
feature of low-income families in the the promotion of family planning in the
Caribbean?
Caribbean?

(A) They are usually self-suffcient. (A) To ensure a balance in numbers

(B) Their homes lack educational betrveen male and female
facilities. (B) To teach parents to supen'ise the
(C) They often have a large number of activities of rheir children
children. (C) To allorv persons to har.e sexual
(D) The children are often economic relationships t'ith chosen
. contributors to the household. panners
(D) To give parents control over the
number and spacing of their
4. Maxine Lewis lives with her unmarried children
mother and father. The union between her
parents can BEST be described as
Which of the follorving u'ould undermine
(A) friendly the authority ofparents in the home?
(B) conjugal
(C) common law (A) Setting and enforcing clear rules of
(D) compassionate conduct
(B) Inconsistency in rervarding and
punishing children
(C) Giving cash allowances to
adolescent family members
(D) Allowing children to participate in
family decision making

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IO 9. Unemployment and hard economic 13. Which of the following BEST characterizes
conditions have forced both parents in a primary group?

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some Caribbean families to migrate,
leaving an elder son or daughter to care for (A) Large in size
the younger brothers and sisters. (B) Face-to-faceinteraction
(C) A common name or title
Which of rhe following problems is LEAST (D) Shared beliefs and norms
likeiy to affect the younger brothers and
sisters?
14. Ralph is the leader of his school's choir.
(A) Low achievement at school
He makes all group decisions without
(B) Breakdown in discipline in the
consulting his other group members. What
home
type of leader is Ralph?
(C) Lack of adult role models in the
home
(D) (A) Democratic
Lack of oppom.rnity forpeer-group
interaction
(B) Participative
(C) Authoritarian
(D) Laissez-faire
10. The type ofcare associated with the elderly
is described as
15. Which of the following is the BEST
(A) geriatric example of a compromise?
(B) old folks
(C) paediatric (A) Workers arguing in a cafeteria line
(D) senescence (B) Two students involved in a writing
contest
(C) A football team working together
ll. Caribbean govemments have improved the to win a match
rights of children born out of wedlock by (D) A husband promising to clean the
house while his wife does the
(A) building more foster homes for cooking
abandoned children
(B) providing incentives for their
parents to get married
16. Which of the following are characteristics
(C) passing laws to allow them to
ofa strong leader?
qualifu for inheritance
(D) passing laws to control sexual (A) Willing to make decisions
relations outside of marriase (B) Always keeps a serious face
(C) Always lenient with members
12. IdentiE/ the order in which the ancestors of
(D) Allows members to make their own
decisions
Caribbean people arrived in the region.

I. Amerindians
II. East Indians 17. Democratic control and open membership
III. Europeans are features ofa
IV. Africans
(A) sole trader
(A) I, Ill, IVandII (B) street gang
(B) I, [I, II and IV (C) private company
(C) I, II, III and lV (D) cooperativesociety
(D) I, IY III and II

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18. Samuel broke one ofthe school rules. He 23. In many Caribbean countries the Queen of
was given 250lines to writc. The above is England is the head ofstate.
an example of a
Such countries may be described as
(A) right (A) republics
(B) norrn
(B) monarchies
(C) ritual (C) dictatorships
(D) sanction
(D) democracies

19. In which of the following countries is 24. The MAIN function of a prosecutor in the
proportional representation practised?
judicial system is to
(A) Guyana (A) issue a summons to a witness
(B) Jamaica (B) provide counsel for the defendant
(C) Barbados (C) present arguments against the
(D) St Vincent defendant
(D) determine the verdict at the end of
a trial
20. The plan proposed by political parties
for managing a colmty is published in a
document called a The role of the opposition ia parliament
can BEST be described as
(A) pamphlet
(B) manifesto (A) inciting civil disobedience and
(C) rragazine mass protest
(D) constitution (B) opposing policies rv'hich the ruling
party proposes
(C) voting in favour ofall bills debated
21. A political campaign is a method used by in Parliament
parties to (D) analysinggovernmeDt'spolicies
and presenting altematites
(A) give voice to the people
(B) encourage people to vote
(C) give donations to the needy 26. A national budget has a deficit when
(D) get tunding from the public expenditure is

(A) equal to revenue

.,, (B) less than revenue
Which of the following is NOT normally (C) greater than revenue
dealt with by family courts in the Caribbean?
(D) sumcient to finance development

(A) Divorce
(B) Child custody ,,1 Which of the following is a NON-
(C) Probate of wills
TAXABLE source of govemment revenue?
(D) Alimony payments
(A) Export eamings
(B) Patents and licences
(C) Grants from donor agencies
(D) Eamings on goods and services

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28. A country's constitution may be changed 32. The term 'labour force' is BEST defined as
by all persons who are

(A) a referendum (A) at the age of retirement from work

(B) national elections (B) qualified, willing and able to work
(C) nationalregistration (C) employed and those actively
(D) local govemment elections seeking employment
(D) qualified to work and are cunently
seeking employment
29. The constitutions of Commonwealth
Caribbean countries guarantee citizens
freedom of conscience, expression, Item 33 refers to the following diagram
assembly and movement. These freedoms which shows the population pyramid for
are usually referred to as CounryX.

(A) citizenship Males Age Group Females

(B) civic duties 80+
(C) human rights 70-79
tD) independence 60-69
50-59
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30. Which ofthe following is LEAST likely to 3tF39
be affected by overpopulation in a country? 20-29
10-19
(A) Pattem of land use 0-9
(B) Provision of social services t0 t5 20 25
(c) Participation in religious activity In Percentages In Percentages
(D) Universal access to secondarv
education Which ofthe following featues of Counay
X may be gatiered from the diagram
above?
31. Lack of sufficient resources to support the
demands ofa nation's population is known (A) Size of its population
as (B) Age-gender distribution of
population
(A) depopulation (C) Percentage of births per 1 000 of
(B) over population population
(c) under population (D) Percentage of population below 5
(D) population density yean of age

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 Item 34 refers to the following graph which 37. The concepts of'push' and 'pull' are
sho*,s bifth rate according to gender for associated with
Country Z.
(A) migration of people
Birth Rate (B) unemploymentpattems
per '000
55 (C) developmentofresources
50 (D) pollution of t}te environment
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40
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25 38. An exanple of intra-regional migration is
20 the movement of people from
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(A) Jamaica to the United States
-Male (B) The United States to Montserrat
1960 1965 t970 t97s 1980 l9E5 1990 (C) Anguilla to the United Kingdom
(D) Trinidad and Tobago to Saint Lucia
34. From the data, given in the graph, it can be
concluded that

(A) male birth rate has always been Item 39 refers to the follo'rving diagram.
lower than that of females
(B) female birth rate increased steadilv
between 1960 and 1990
(c) female birth rate reached its highest
level around the mid-1970s
(D) male birth rate was higher than that
of females betv/een 1975 and
t980

35. Which of the following BEST explains

why binh rates have been falling in some
Caribbean countdes?

(A) Fewer babies are dying in the first 39. Which of the follorving ma1. result if many
-year oflife.
people do what the 1,oung man in the
(B) Family planning is now encouraged picture is doing?
in several countries.
(c) The quality of medical care has I. Rapid rate ofgrotth ofcities
declined in some countries.
(D) Larger numbers of people are
II. The brain drain erperienced by
many developing countries
migrating from some countries.
III. Inadequatehousing.educational
and health facilities in urban
36. Acountry's population increase is calculated areas
by finding the
(A) I and II only
(A) specific fertility rate (B) I and III only
(B) positive net migration (C) lI and III only
(c) difference between birth rate and (D) I, II and III
death rate
(D) sum ofthe natural increase and net
migration

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{0. Healthy individuals are beneficial to a 44. Persons are considered unemployed when
country's development because such they are
individuals are MORE likely to be
(A) under the age of65 and disabled
(A) less critical (B) working for less than 12 months a
(B) satisfied and contented year
(C) self-sufficient and self-reliant (C) studying full time at an institution
(D) productive and effective workers of higher learning
(D) between the ages 16 and25 years
and actively looking for work
11. The introduction ofmachines in agriculture
results in the unemployment of farm
*'orkers. 45. It is TRUE to sav that marine life in the
Caribbean is
The S'pe of unemployment these workers
suft'er is (A) a renewable resource
(B) an unlimited resource
(A) normal (C) useless as a tourist attraction
(B) eyclical (D) does not contribute t<i persons'diets
(C) seasonal
(D) tecbnical
46. Which of the following would play an
important part in a govemment's efforts to
42. Which of the following are MOST likely increase consumption of locally produced
to happen in a country where there is full food?
employment?
(A) Increasing the price of imported
L Greater demand for goods and food
services (B) Increasing taxes on agricultural
IL lmprovement in the quality of life lands
III. An upsurge in criminal activities (C) Imposing heavy duties on imported
farm tools
(A) I and II only (D) Cutting down forest trees to obtain
(B) I and III only more agriculhral land
(C) II and III only
(D) I, II and III
47. Which of the following methods offishing
is Mosr damaging to the eco-system?
43. which of the followins situations
contributes MOST to underJnployment? (A) Trawling the seas
(B) Setting offish pots
(A) Foreign investnent in a country (C) The use ofdynamite
(B) Employment for illegal immigrants (D) The dropping of seines
(C) Unsatisfactorylevelsofeducational
attainment
(D) Slow rate of development of
physical resources

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?8- Which of the following has the potential to Which of the following is the MOST
cause t}le MOST serious pollution of the important aim ofthe trading arrangements
beaches of the Caribbean? with;n CARICOM?

(A) Oil spill from tankers (A) To promote economic development

(B) Hurricanes and high tides in the region
(C) Improper garbage disPosal (B) To increase the markets and
(D) Unsuitable fishing practices revenue of larger territories
(C) To ensure that goods from outside
the region become cheaPer
49. Which of the following measures will (D) To increase travel and contact
assist Caribbean countries to develop self- among the PeoPle of the region
sufficient economies?

I. Developing the local agricultural 53. Which of the following factors hinders co-
sector operation among CARICOM states?
IL lnvesting in local industries rather
than in foreign ones (A) Common economic Policies
UI. Issuing import licences for goods (B) The challenge ofglobalization
which can be produced locally (C) Competition for foreign capital
(D) Difference in cultural traditions
(A) I and Il only
(B) I and III only
(C) II and III only s4. "Individual countries in the region are too
(D) I, II and III small to make their presence felt on the
world stage."

50. Most Caribbean countries remain produce6 Implied in this statement is the need for
of primary products MAINLY because
(A) individual countries to espouse
(A) they are agriculturally based republicanism
(B) they possess few mineral resources (B) individual countries to demand
(C) their labour forces are largely their democratic rights
. unskilled (C) individual countries to return to
(D) they lack the means to process their colonialism
resources (D) integration of countries in the
region under consideration

51. The highest authority of the Cadbbean

Community (CARICOM) is the Which of the following is NOT a feature
of globalization?
(A) West lndian Commission
(B) Heads of Govemment Conference (A) Migration of skilled labour
(C) Council ofTrade and Development (B) Establisbment oftade links around
(D) Council ofForeign and Community the world
Relations (C) Creation ofjobs as a result of
foreign investment
(D) Use oflow levels oftechnology in
the production of goods

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56. Which of the following may hinder Items 59{0 refer to the following table
integration in CARICOM? below which gives the natural increase
population for Country X in 2006.
(A) Removal of duties and tariffs
(B) Restrictions on intra-regional Fade
(C) The establishment of a common No. of No. of No. of No. of
curTency Births Deaths lmmigrants Emigrants
(D) More funding from the Caribbean
30 000 15 000 14 000 8 000
Development Bank

57. Ifa cARICoM co,ntry imposesrestriction,

59' The natural increase in population for
on GARICOM p."O".i! *r,Jrt counbiv x in 2006 was
following provisions is being "iinl
violated? (A) 6 000
(A) Rules of origin G) 15 ooo

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(D) Special regime of LCDs

60. The net migration figure for Country X in

58. 2006 was
which of the following is NoT likely to
be a potential benefit of CARICOM to a
memberstate? I
S] ,:BBl
(A) 22 0oo
Investment in the resion's narural .(c)
(D) 38 ooo
resources
(B) Movement of skilled people within
the region
(C) Greater self-sufficiency in food
production within the region
(D) Increased competition among
member states for limited hurnan
resources

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