What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to characteristics of countries at different levels of development. 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 characteristics of countries at different levels of development, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Presenting characteristics as an unconnected list rather than a reinforcing circle.
- Confusing the development poverty trap with the benefit withdrawal poverty trap of 8.2.
- Treating all developing countries as identical.
- Saying population growth is simply bad, without the demographic dividend qualification.
- Forgetting that inelastic demand and supply are what make commodity prices volatile.
- Claiming primary product dependence is bad without explaining income elasticity or volatility.
- Ignoring institutions, which are frequently the binding constraint.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Characteristics of Countries at Different Levels of Development revision notes.