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QCE Philosophy & Reason Practice Exams with Worked Solutions
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The 20 practice exams inside the QCE Philosophy & Reason Mastery Pack, each set out like the real paper with a separate worked-solution guide. Open any paper to see what it covers.
- Prescribed philosophies: libertarianism and social liberalism
- Question: Should a state government cap residential rents in a housing shortage?
- Property rights versus housing as a social good
- Nozick's entitlement theory
- Rawls's difference principle
- Evaluating a landlord-lobby argument in standard form
- Using the original Stimulus 1 data panel (rent and wage figures) as evidence
- Exam technique: valid but unsound — testing the truth of a conditional premise
- Prescribed philosophies: anarchism and socialism
- Question: Is a worker-owned cooperative the best model for organising a town's main employer?
- Owen's cooperative communities
- Bakunin on authority in the workplace
- Human nature as cooperative
- Distinguishing collective from state ownership
- Using the original Stimulus 1 employment and finance figures as evidence
- Exam technique: spotting a necessary condition treated as sufficient
- Prescribed philosophies: libertarianism and socialism
- Question: Should inherited wealth above a threshold be taxed at a high rate?
- Self-ownership and just transfer
- Marx on class reproduction
- Distributive justice
- Evaluating a slippery-slope claim in the stimulus
- Using the original Stimulus 1 Treasury figures to test the “double taxation” claim
- Exam technique: a modus ponens with a conjunctive antecedent
- Prescribed philosophies: anarchism and libertarianism
- Question: Is a government monopoly on policing legitimate?
- Rothbard on private protection agencies
- Nozick's dominant protective association
- Legitimacy and authority
- The minimal state versus no state
- Using the original Stimulus 1 response-time and subscription figures as evidence
- Exam technique: an equivocation hidden in a valid modus ponens
- Prescribed philosophies: social liberalism and socialism
- Question: Should public universities be free to every citizen?
- Positive freedom and education (TH Green)
- Fair equality of opportunity
- Socialist decommodification
- Formal versus substantive equality
- Using the original Stimulus 1 enrolment figures to test fair equality of opportunity
- Exam technique: a valid argument whose universal premise is false
- Prescribed philosophies: anarchism and social liberalism
- Question: Is compulsory voting a justified use of state authority?
- Consent and political obligation
- Democracy and legitimacy
- Bakunin's critique of representative government
- Rawls on equal political liberties
- Using the original Stimulus 1 turnout figures as evidence
- Exam technique: a valid modus tollens with a contestable first premise
- Prescribed philosophies: libertarianism and social liberalism
- Question: Should a sugar-sweetened drinks levy fund public health?
- Mill's harm principle and paternalism
- Negative versus positive freedom
- Evaluating a public-cost argument
- Fallacy check: appeal to nature in the stimulus
- Using the original Stimulus 1 revenue and cost figures as evidence
- Exam technique: an argument that proves too much — testing a universal premise against counterexamples
- Prescribed philosophies: anarchism and socialism
- Question: Should a community be allowed to secede from the state and govern itself?
- Voluntary association
- Self-government and mutual aid
- Marx on the withering away of the state
- Human nature and self-organisation
- Using the original Stimulus 1 petition and Stimulus 2 funding figures as evidence
- Exam technique: a valid chain of conditionals whose first premise is a disguised slippery slope
- Prescribed philosophies: libertarianism and socialism
- Question: Should essential water supplies be privately owned?
- Locke's labour theory and the proviso
- Common ownership of natural resources
- Property and scarcity
- Constructive dilemma in the stimulus
- Using the original Stimulus 1 debt, interest and dividend figures as evidence
- Exam technique: turning an opponent's own principle (Nozick's proviso) against their conclusion
- Prescribed philosophies: social liberalism and socialism
- Question: Is a guaranteed job scheme a fairer response to automation than a cash payment?
- Alienation and meaningful work
- The enabling state
- Obligation of the individual to society
- Inductive strength of a trial result in the stimulus
- Using the original Stimulus 1 cost figures as evidence
- Exam technique: judging an inductive generalisation by sample size, representativeness and self-report
- Prescribed philosophies: anarchism and libertarianism
- Question: Should the state regulate a peer-to-peer digital currency?
- Spontaneous order and voluntary exchange
- Anarcho-capitalism versus libertarian minimal state
- Authority and coercion
- Evaluating an appeal to authority
- Using the original Stimulus 1 levy figures and the context loss figures as evidence
- Exam technique: dividing a policy into measures and judging each against the theory
- Prescribed philosophies: libertarianism and social liberalism
- Question: Should the state fund childcare for every family?
- Taxation as forced labour
- Primary goods and fair opportunity
- Equity and gender
- Hidden premises in a cost-benefit argument
- Using the original Stimulus 1 data panel and Stimulus 2 fee figures as evidence
- Exam technique: testing Nozick's forced-labour analogy for relevant similarity
- Prescribed philosophies: social liberalism and socialism
- Question: Should essential industries be returned to public ownership?
- Means of production
- Regulated markets versus common ownership
- Distributive justice
- Is-ought fallacy in the stimulus
- Using the original Stimulus 1 bill and profit figures as evidence
- Exam technique: naming the missing evaluative premise in an is-ought argument
- Prescribed philosophies: anarchism and social liberalism
- Question: Should citizens be obliged to obey a law they believe is unjust?
- Civil disobedience
- Political obligation and authority
- Rawls on near-just societies
- Anarchist rejection of state authority
- Using the original context figures (penalty change, vote, claimed costs) as evidence
- Exam technique: spotting the shift from 'disagree' to 'believe unjust' in a universalisation argument
- Prescribed philosophies: anarchism and socialism
- Question: Should a city replace its welfare office with neighbourhood mutual-aid networks?
- Kropotkin-style mutual aid within social anarchism
- Collective provision
- Human nature as social
- Faulty analogy check
- Using the original Stimulus 1 trial evaluation as evidence
- Exam technique: costing unpaid labour to test a claimed saving
- Prescribed philosophies: libertarianism and socialism
- Question: Is a large gap between the richest and poorest citizens unjust in itself?
- Pattern versus historical theories of justice
- Wilt Chamberlain argument
- Class and exploitation
- Substantive equality
- Using the original Stimulus 1 wealth-share figures as evidence
- Exam technique: separating what a distribution is from how it arose
- Prescribed philosophies: libertarianism and social liberalism
- Question: Should the government restrict political advertising spending during elections?
- Free speech as a negative right
- Fair value of political liberties
- Democracy and equality of voice
- Ad populum reasoning in the stimulus
- Using the original Stimulus 1 spending figures as evidence
- Exam technique: a valid modus tollens whose premises equate money with speech
- Prescribed philosophies: social liberalism and socialism
- Question: Should a mining region's resource royalties be shared with all citizens?
- Ownership of natural resources
- Difference principle
- Common wealth
- Deconstructing a royalty-dividend argument
- Using the original Stimulus 1 royalty and profit figures as evidence
- Exam technique: testing whether common ownership entails equal division
- Prescribed philosophies: anarchism and libertarianism
- Question: Should toll roads and bridges be built and run privately?
- Public goods and free-riding
- Voluntary exchange
- Minimal state functions
- Necessary and sufficient conditions for legitimate taxation
- Using the original Stimulus 1 concession terms as evidence
- Exam technique: testing a consent claim by asking whether a real alternative exists
- Prescribed philosophies: social liberalism and socialism
- Question: Is a society organised around equal opportunity sufficiently fair?
- Equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome
- Rawls's two principles
- Marx's 'from each according to ability'
- Evaluating a meritocracy argument
- Using the original Stimulus 1 admission figures as evidence
- Exam technique: equal opportunity as a necessary but not sufficient condition of fairness
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