What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past AQA A-Level papers and filtered to fiscal policy. 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 fiscal policy, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Confusing the deficit (an annual flow) with the national debt (a stock). Reducing the deficit still increases the debt.
- Confusing direct/indirect taxes with progressive/regressive; they are different classifications.
- Saying VAT is progressive; indirect taxes are regressive.
- Ignoring automatic stabilisers and treating every change in the deficit as a policy decision.
- Forgetting that fiscal policy has supply-side effects, not just demand-side.
- Asserting crowding out unconditionally, it depends on the state of the economy.
- Overstating the Laffer curve as established fact.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Fiscal Policy revision notes.