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Life Sciences Paper 1, November 2024, question 2.4.2

Life Sciences P1 · Human eye and visual defects
2.4.22 marks
A learner has hypermetropia (long-sightedness), so she cannot see nearby objects clearly. Explain how wearing glasses with convex lenses helps her to see the words on a page clearly when she reads.

NSCBased on Nov 2024 · Paper 1 · Q2.4.2

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What examiners found

Many candidates could not explain that a convex lens refracts light more, so the image falls on the retina. Some wrote about the lens in the previous part instead.

In our words. Source: Department of Basic Education, NSC 2024 Diagnostic Report, Part 1 (Book 1), Q2.4.2.

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