What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to addressing income and wealth inequality. 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 addressing income and wealth inequality, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Income is not a stock; it must have a time period.
- Wealth is not simply high income.
- Wealth should normally be measured net of liabilities when net wealth is
- A higher Gini means greater inequality, not greater equality.
- The syllabus does not require calculation of the Gini coefficient.
- An income Gini does not measure wealth inequality.
- Inequality is not identical to poverty.
- A minimum wage helps only workers whose employment and hours are maintained.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Addressing Income and Wealth Inequality revision notes.