Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Starehe Girls’ Centre Geography Paper 1 2025 Mock Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  The exam paper consists of two sections (A and B). It is marked out of a total of 100 marks and should be completed by learners within a duration of 2¾ hours.

  The paper is intended for Form 4 learners and assesses physical geography, map reading skills, and fieldwork knowledge in line with the KCSE Geography syllabus.

  It covers the following topics:

  • Faulting and its influence on drainage systems
  • Latitude and longitude, including time calculations
  • Soils, including desert soils and soil leaching
  • Earth’s movements, including equinoxes and effects of rotation
  • River deposition and deltas, including types and conditions for formation
  • Topographical map reading and interpretation (Oyugis 1:50,000)
  • Economic activities, settlement patterns, and fieldwork challenges
  • Mapwork skills, including sketch mapping and feature identification
  • Vulcanicity and volcanicity, including extrusive features and lava plateaus
  • Influence of vulcanicity on human activities in Kenya
  • Weather and climate, including Kenya highlands climatic conditions
  • Factors influencing climate (latitude, altitude, aspect, winds)
  • Vegetation adaptation in the Nyika region
  • Glaciation in East Africa and formation of glacial landforms
  • Coastal processes, features, and fieldwork along the Kenyan Coast

  Section A contains short-answer questions testing core physical geography concepts, while Section B includes compulsory mapwork and optional essay questions on major physical geography topics and fieldwork.

• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  GEOGRAPHY

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