What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past AQA A-Level papers and filtered to supply-side policies. 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 supply-side policies, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Confusing supply-side policy with fiscal policy. Both involve tax changes; the difference is whether the target is AD or LRAS.
- Claiming supply-side policy fixes a recession quickly, its lags are the longest of any policy.
- Shifting AD instead of LRAS on the diagram.
- Listing measures without explaining how each raises productive capacity.
- Ignoring the equity effects of market-based measures.
- Saying privatisation always improves efficiency, without the private-monopoly risk.
- Forgetting that supply-side policy is ineffective when the binding constraint is deficient demand.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Supply-Side Policies revision notes.