What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0264 Business papers and filtered to economic sectors. 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 economic sectors, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Calling construction tertiary. Building produces a physical thing, so it is secondary.
- Calling a restaurant or a supermarket secondary. Cooking a meal to serve and selling goods someone else made are both services.
- Deciding the sector from the size of the business rather than from the stage of production.
- Giving one sector for a business the stem clearly shows operating in two or three.
- Saying a public limited company is in the public sector.
- Saying public sector organisations aim to make a profit. Their objective is the service, funded from taxation.
- Treating primary, secondary and tertiary as ranks, with tertiary somehow more advanced. They are stages, not levels.
- Naming the sector and stopping. The sector is worth a mark; what it means for this business is worth the rest.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Economic sectors revision notes.