What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Cambridge IGCSE papers and filtered to poverty. 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, 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 economic growth eliminates relative poverty; it does not, because the benchmark moves.
- Assuming everyone in poverty is unemployed. Low pay causes in-work poverty.
- Listing policies without giving a drawback of any.
- Forgetting the poverty cycle, which explains why poverty persists across generations.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Poverty revision notes.