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Writing an article

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:17:38+02:00February 12th, 2025|English Language Notes, Guided Compositions|

A magazine article. Image by Butler’sPantry. ZIMSEC English Language Notes: Writing an article

Articles are magazine and newspaper style essays. As part of your ZIMSEC English Language examination you can be asked to write an article on a chosen topic in Section B of Paper […]

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Weather Hazards

By garikaib|2025-02-12T08:59:03+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes, Weather and Climate|

Floods are just one of many natural weather hazards. Image by The Australian. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Weather Hazards

Weather hazards are conditions which are unfavorable to people and their activities that result from weather phenomena.
There are […]

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Advantages of Rift Valleys and Block Mountains

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:36:35+02:00February 12th, 2025|Landform Studies, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Yosemite Mountains and Valley. Image by Mountainprofessor. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Advantages of Rift Valleys and Block Mountains

Advantages of block mountains

Relief rainfall is common raising the amount of annual precipitation within the vicinity of such mountains.
They have a cooler environments which invigorating tends to […]

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Kopje, Tor and Balancing rocks

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:21:33+02:00February 12th, 2025|Landform Studies, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

A Kopje. Image credit MediaWiki. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Landforms resulting from Weathering: Kopjes

Tors/Kopjes/Castle kopjes

Tors/kopjes/castle kopjes are inselbergs.
Tors the same as kopjes even though some books make an attempt to distinguish between the two.
Different names are applied in different localities to what are essentially […]

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Human activities in deserts

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:09:35+02:00February 12th, 2025|Hot Deserts, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Oil drilling in a desert. Image credit Foxoildrilling.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Human Activities in Deserts

In spite of their hostile enviroments brought about by aridity leading to shortage of water, pasture, wood fuel and other wood resources, remoteness, infertile and salty […]

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Interlocking spurs/spurs and steep valleys

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:36:58+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Interlocking spurs. Image credit geography.org.uk ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Interlocking spurs and steep-sided valleys

Interlocking spurs are a result of water taking the easiest path down the slope and tending ot go round resistant rock resulting in a winding course.
The bends become more pronounced with […]

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The three levels of Production

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:17:02+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Katiyo tea estate, farming is a primary level activity. Image credit. birdingzimbabwe.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: The three levels of production

The three levels of production

Primary
is concerned with the extraction of raw materials from the earth’s surface. For […]

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Commercial Banks
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Commercial Banks

Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes

Commercial Banks

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:38:11+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Money and Banking: Commercial Banks

Commercial Banks

Is a bank that offers services to the general public and to companies.
For example Barclays, Standard Chartered, Stanbic and BancABC.

Services offered

They accept deposits in the form of current, savings and fixed deposits accounts.
They receive or make payments through cheques, direct debit and credit transfers.
They […]

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