What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Cambridge IGCSE papers and filtered to workers. 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 workers, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Saying a job pays well simply because it is "important". Nurses and teachers are important and not always well paid, what matters is supply and demand.
- Explaining only demand, or only supply. The wage is set by both.
- Forgetting that demand for labour is derived from demand for the product.
- Ignoring non-wage factors, which explain why some pleasant jobs pay less.
- Treating all low pay as discrimination without considering supply.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Workers revision notes.