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Free CXC CAPE Caribbean Studies
Practice Paper

8 mixed-difficulty practice questions in the style of real CXC CAPE papers — answers, mark-scheme-style explanations, and the official exam structure all on one page.

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What the real CXC CAPE Caribbean Studies paper looks like

Paper 01 (Multiple Choice)
45 multiple-choice questions, 1 mark each. About 1 hour 30 minutes. Tests knowledge across all three Modules of the Unit.
Paper 02 (Essay / Structured)
Extended essay and structured questions, one per Module. Around 2 hours 30 minutes. Tests developed argument, application and use of examples.
Paper 03 (Internal Assessment)
School-Based Assessment for school candidates (Paper 03/1) or an alternative written paper for private candidates (Paper 03/2). Coursework/research component worth a significant share of the Unit grade.
Total written exam time: ~4 hours across Paper 01 and Paper 02, plus the Internal Assessment.
Grading: Unit grades: I (highest) to VII (lowest), with a Grade Point Average and per-Module profile. Grades I–V are the pass range for most purposes.

Mini practice paper: 8 questions

Mixed-difficulty questions from across the Caribbean Studies syllabus. Tap "Show answer" after each to check yourself.

Q1 · Difficulty 1/3

What is a society?

  1. The learned beliefs and practices of a group
  2. A group of people occupying a defined space, sharing institutions and a common identity
  3. A set of rules governing behaviour
  4. The physical objects a group creates
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✓ Answer: B — A group of people occupying a defined space, sharing institutions and a common identity
Award 1 mark. A society is the people and their organisation. What they believe and do is culture.
Q2 · Difficulty 1/3

Which term describes Caribbean people and their descendants living outside the region?

  1. The Lesser Antilles
  2. The Caribbean diaspora
  3. The circum-Caribbean
  4. The archipelago
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✓ Answer: B — The Caribbean diaspora
Award 1 mark. It includes communities in cities such as Brooklyn, Toronto, London and Amsterdam. The syllabus treats the diaspora as part of the region, not separate from it.
Q3 · Difficulty 1/3

What is maroonage?

  1. The migration of Caribbean people to Britain
  2. The blending of African and European religious practice
  3. Escape from enslavement to form independent communities
  4. The system of contract labour after emancipation
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✓ Answer: C — Escape from enslavement to form independent communities
Award 1 mark. Maroon communities established themselves in Jamaica, Suriname and elsewhere, some securing treaties. They became important sites of cultural retention.
Q4 · Difficulty 1/3

What is cultural erasion?

  1. The loss or disappearance of cultural practices
  2. The spread of Caribbean culture abroad
  3. The survival of practices in maroon communities
  4. The mixing of African and European religious practice
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✓ Answer: A — The loss or disappearance of cultural practices
Award 1 mark. It often followed deliberate suppression, as with the prohibition of African religious practice and drumming. Few African languages survived intact as spoken tongues in the anglophone Caribbean.
Q5 · Difficulty 1/3

Which indigenous people occupied the Greater Antilles before European arrival?

  1. The Maya
  2. The Taíno
  3. The Aztec
  4. The Inca
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✓ Answer: B — The Taíno
Award 1 mark. They lived in settled villages with agriculture, fishing and chiefly organisation. The Kalinago occupied much of the Lesser Antilles.
Q6 · Difficulty 1/3

What does GDP measure?

  1. The number of people in formal employment
  2. The total market value of goods and services produced within a country in a year
  3. The average life expectancy of a population
  4. The level of income inequality in a country
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✓ Answer: B — The total market value of goods and services produced within a country in a year
Award 1 mark. It measures output and says nothing about how that output is distributed. Life expectancy and inequality require separate indicators.
Q7 · Difficulty 1/3

What is ethnocentrism?

  1. Judging another culture by the standards of one's own and finding it inferior
  2. The process of learning one's own culture
  3. The blending of two cultural traditions
  4. Understanding a culture on its own terms
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✓ Answer: A — Judging another culture by the standards of one's own and finding it inferior
Award 1 mark. Its opposite is cultural relativism, which understands a culture in its own context. Ethnocentric phrasing loses marks in Internal Assessment write-ups.
Q8 · Difficulty 1/3

Which agent carries out primary socialisation?

  1. The media
  2. The workplace
  3. The family
  4. The school
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✓ Answer: C — The family
Award 1 mark. Primary socialisation happens first and shapes the most basic norms and values. School, peers, religion and media provide secondary socialisation.
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CXC CAPE Caribbean Studies FAQ

What does the CXC CAPE Caribbean Studies exam look like?
The CXC CAPE Caribbean Studies exam is structured across 3 components. Paper 01 (Multiple Choice): 45 multiple-choice questions, 1 mark each. About 1 hour 30 minutes. Tests knowledge across all three Modules of the Unit. Paper 02 (Essay / Structured): Extended essay and structured questions, one per Module. Around 2 hours 30 minutes. Tests developed argument, application and use of examples. Paper 03 (Internal Assessment): School-Based Assessment for school candidates (Paper 03/1) or an alternative written paper for private candidates (Paper 03/2). Coursework/research component worth a significant share of the Unit grade. Total written exam time: ~4 hours across Paper 01 and Paper 02, plus the Internal Assessment.
Can I download a free CXC CAPE Caribbean Studies past paper?
Real CXC CAPE past papers are published directly by CXC CAPE on their official website. Kramizo doesn't redistribute copyrighted past papers, but we do generate free AI-written practice papers in the exact same style — same command words, same difficulty tier, same mark conventions. Use this practice paper as warm-up, then time yourself on official past papers before exam day.
How is CXC CAPE Caribbean Studies graded?
Unit grades: I (highest) to VII (lowest), with a Grade Point Average and per-Module profile. Grades I–V are the pass range for most purposes. Kramizo's practice questions are tagged with difficulty 1-3 mapping roughly to the lower, middle, and top grade boundaries you'll encounter in the real exam.