What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Cambridge IGCSE papers and filtered to international specialisation. 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 international specialisation, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Describing specialisation by workers when the question asks about countries.
- Listing advantages without a mechanism. Say why specialisation lowers prices.
- Forgetting over-dependence, the strongest disadvantage.
- Ignoring that specialisation only works if there is trade; a specialised country must be able to import.
- Missing the difference between the effects on consumers, firms and the economy, when the question names one of them.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: International Specialisation revision notes.