What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Edexcel A-Level papers. 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 poverty and inequality, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Confusing absolute with relative poverty.
- Saying growth eliminates relative poverty; it need not, because the benchmark moves with median income.
- Defining relative poverty as "below the median". It is below a set percentage of the median, usually 60%.
- Confusing wealth (a stock) with income (a flow). The single most common error here.
- Describing the Lorenz curve without giving the Gini ratio, or vice versa.
- Getting the Gini scale backwards, 0 is perfect equality.
- Treating all inequality as harmful, ignoring the incentive argument.
- Listing policies without a drawback for any of them.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Poverty and Inequality revision notes.