Inflation: 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
What was the rate of inflation if the consumer price index (CPI) of a country rose from 120 to 150?
Answer: A.
Question 2
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) measures
Answer: B.
Question 3
Which one of the following is likely to cause cost-push inflation?
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 inflation, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Confusing deflation (falling prices) with disinflation (prices rising more slowly).
- Saying inflation means "prices are high". It means prices are rising.
- Treating all inflation as demand-pull, when the cause and cure differ for cost-push.
- Saying inflation harms everyone, borrowers gain.
- Forgetting that deflation is also harmful.
- Describing the CPI without mentioning weighting, which is the whole point of the basket.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Inflation revision notes.