What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to supply-side policy. 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 supply-side policy, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- “Supply-side policy means increasing supply.” Too vague. Refer to productivity, productive capacity and LRAS.
- Confusing output with productivity. More output from more inputs is not necessarily higher productivity.
- Shifting AD instead of LRAS. Training and technology may affect spending too, but their defining effect is on productive capacity and LRAS.
- Claiming the price level must fall immediately. Many policies have time lags and can raise AD during implementation.
- Treating education as a pure public good. Education is normally a merit good with external benefits, not necessarily non-excludable and non-rival.
- Assuming technology always increases employment. Technology may create jobs, complement labour or replace tasks.
- Importing A Level evaluation as the core answer. At AS, analyse the specified mechanisms and macro outcomes first. Add a concise condition rather than replacing the answer with a broad ideological debate.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Supply-side Policy revision notes.