What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to macroeconomic policy objectives and their conflicts. 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 macroeconomic policy objectives and their conflicts, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Asserting a conflict without explaining the mechanism that produces it.
- Treating zero inflation or zero unemployment as the objective.
- Ignoring where the economy sits on the aggregate supply curve, which determines how severe the inflation conflict is.
- Failing to distinguish demand-led from supply-side growth, which have opposite implications for the inflation conflict.
- Presenting every objective as conflicting with every other, when supply-side improvement advances several together.
- Omitting the time dimension, when several conflicts are short run only.
- Concluding without prioritising, when the question supplies the data needed to prioritise.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Macroeconomic Policy Objectives and Their Conflicts revision notes.