BW PSLE Social Studies case studies
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The Botswana Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) Social Studies paper is the social sciences component of the national examination taken at the end of Standard 7, the final year of primary schooling. It is written by candidates completing primary education in Botswana and is used, alongside the other PSLE papers, to certify completion of primary school and to inform placement into junior secondary education. The BW PSLE Social Studies case studies are 5 cases and about 2,704 words.
1The Kalahari Village Water Committee
Kgotla meeting in a settlement of 640 people on the eastern edge of the Kalahari. The borehole yields 4,800 litres a day in the dry season; the diesel pump fails roughly one day in five.
589 words, about 3 min2Interpreting a Census Table for a Mining Town
A learner is given a table for a copper-mining town of 48,000 people. Employment: mine 14,000; government 4,000; trade and services 6,000; subsistence farming 3,000; unemployed 9,000; not in labour force 12,000.
460 words, about 2 min3Two Accounts of the 1895 Jameson Raid
A learner has three sources on the Jameson Raid of December 1895, when Cecil Rhodes's associate Leander Jameson led about 500 armed men from the Bechuanaland border into the South African Republic. Source A is a speech by Rhodes in 1896 defending the raid as rescue of women and children.
567 words, about 3 min4Should the Tannery Get the Effluent Licence?
A district of 30,000 people has 41% youth unemployment. A leather tannery applies for a licence to discharge treated effluent into a river 3 km upstream of the intake for the town's water works.
584 words, about 3 min5Reading a Rainfall and Maize Graph
A learner is given a bar-and-line graph for a village: bars show annual rainfall in millimetres (1999: 610; 2000: 480; 2001: 720; 2002: 350; 2003: 520; 2004: 300; 2005: 640), and a line shows maize harvest in tonnes (1999: 90; 2000: 70; 2001: 105; 2002: 40; 2003: 75; 2004: 35; 2005: 95). The learner writes: 'Harvest goes up whenever rainfall goes up, so rainfall alone decides the harvest.
504 words, about 3 min