Economic Growth: three questions to try now
Real past-paper questions, the answer key from the mark scheme, and the explanation that goes with it. No account needed to answer them.
Question 1
Which one of the following describes the recovery phase of the economic cycle?
Answer: B.
Question 2
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) measures
Answer: B.
Question 3
A decrease in unemployment is likely to result in
Answer: C.
What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Edexcel IGCSE 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 economic growth, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Using nominal GDP to discuss growth. Always specify real GDP.
- Forgetting population, total GDP can rise while GDP per capita falls.
- Saying one quarter of falling output is a recession; it takes two quarters in a row.
- Saying growth always makes everyone better off, ignoring distribution.
- Treating growth as automatically bad for the environment, without distinguishing growth from productivity and growth from using up resources.
- Listing costs and benefits without reaching a judgement.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Economic Growth revision notes.