What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past AQA A-Level papers and filtered to the measurement of macroeconomic performance. 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 measurement of macroeconomic performance, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Reading an index of 112 as "112 per cent higher".
- Calculating the change between two non-base years by subtracting index points and calling the answer a percentage.
- Comparing nominal figures across years, or total GDP across countries of different sizes.
- Converting at market exchange rates when comparing living standards, instead of PPP.
- Listing limitations of GDP without saying which would matter most for the country in the question.
- Treating a rise in GDP per capita as proof that people are better off, when it is a mean.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: The Measurement of Macroeconomic Performance revision notes.