What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past AQA A-Level papers. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on the distribution of income and wealth: poverty and inequality, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Treating income and wealth as interchangeable. One is a flow, one is a stock.
- Saying growth will end relative poverty. It cannot: the threshold moves with the median.
- Describing the Lorenz curve without saying what either axis measures.
- Reading a higher Gini as more equality.
- Explaining the poverty trap as simply "benefits make people lazy" instead of the marginal deduction rate.
- Asserting the equity and efficiency trade-off without acknowledging the policies that avoid it.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: The Distribution of Income and Wealth: Poverty and Inequality revision notes.