What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to equity and redistribution of income and wealth. 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 equity and redistribution of income and wealth, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Treating equity and equality as the same thing.
- Confusing income with wealth, or a stock with a flow.
- Reversing the Gini: saying a rising Gini means falling inequality.
- Concluding from a rising Gini that the poor became absolutely poorer.
- Classifying a tax as progressive from the amount paid rather than the average rate.
- Asserting that a minimum wage always causes unemployment, with no reference to market structure.
- Listing policies without analysing the mechanism or evaluating the trade-off.
- Forgetting that relative poverty is unaffected by uniform growth.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Equity and Redistribution of Income and Wealth revision notes.