What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to economic growth. 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, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Defining growth using nominal GDP.
- Confusing an increase in the price level with an increase in output.
- Dividing by the new value rather than the original value in a growth-rate calculation.
- Assuming total GDP growth automatically raises GDP per capita.
- Claiming that all growth reduces unemployment.
- Claiming that growth always causes inflation.
- Treating an outward PPC shift and movement from inside to the PPC as identical.
- Assuming higher GDP guarantees higher welfare.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Economic Growth revision notes.