What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Cambridge IGCSE papers and filtered to fiscal 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 fiscal policy, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Confusing fiscal policy (government) with monetary policy (central bank).
- Confusing a budget deficit with the national debt.
- Saying a progressive tax means "the rich pay more". They pay a higher percentage.
- Calling VAT progressive because richer people spend more in total. It is regressive as a share of income.
- Ignoring time lags and the opportunity cost of spending.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Fiscal Policy revision notes.