What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to economic growth and sustainability. 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 growth and sustainability, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Explaining potential growth with a rise in aggregate demand.
- Treating a negative output gap as the normal state and a positive one as impossible.
- Assuming a rising budget deficit in a recession proves fiscal mismanagement, when automatic stabilisers produce exactly that.
- Describing the phases of the cycle without explaining any cause.
- Confusing inclusive growth with sustainable growth. One is about who gets the gains, the other about whether they last.
- Using GDP per head to argue that ordinary people are better off, forgetting it is a mean.
- Asserting that growth always damages the environment, ignoring both abatement technology and the funding of it.
- Recommending international agreements without acknowledging the free-rider problem that weakens them.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Economic Growth and Sustainability revision notes.