IB Geography HL · 2019 to 2025
5.1 Development opportunities
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5.1 Development opportunities
Latest exam session: May 2025
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Micro-topics in 5.1 Development opportunities
In syllabus order. The ring is the share of papers each appears in.
5.1.1
Measuring and advancing human development
12 questions · in 63% of papersAppears in 10 of the 16 Geography HL papers analysed (63%), at least once each.
Frequently testedlast May 25 P3 TZ3
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Questions per year for each micro-topic.
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| Micro-topic | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4Measuring and advancing human development, 2019: 4 questions | ·Measuring and advancing human development, 2020: 0 questions | 1Measuring and advancing human development, 2021: 1 question | 1Measuring and advancing human development, 2022: 1 question | 3Measuring and advancing human development, 2023: 3 questions | 1Measuring and advancing human development, 2024: 1 question | 2Measuring and advancing human development, 2025: 2 questions |
- Frequently testedin at least a quarter of all papers, and still appearing in the last two years
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Questions on 5.1 Development opportunities, by exam session
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May 2025
2 questions across 2 papers
May 2024
1 question across 1 paper
November 2023
1 question across 1 paper
May 2023
2 questions across 2 papers
May 2022
1 question across 1 paper
May 2021
1 question across 1 paper
November 2019
2 questions across 1 paper
May 2019
2 questions across 1 paper
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Which Geography HL exam sessions are covered for 5.1 Development opportunities?
12 exam sessions from 2019 to 2025, the latest May 2025. Every Paper 3 in every timezone is read and classified in full, which gives 10 papers in this archive.
Which 5.1 Development opportunities topic comes up most?
Measuring and advancing human development (5.1.1): in 63% of papers, last seen May 25 P3 TZ3. Usually "analyse", worth about 16.4 marks in a paper that includes it.
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Banker: examined in at least one sitting in four and still appearing. Due: regular before, but absent for the last two exam sessions. Rising: clearly more common in the last two years. Our classification of real papers, not an IB statistic.
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