Edexcel A-Level Economics | 12-mark Question
Edexcel A-Level Economics Paper 1
With reference to Figure 1, discuss the likely impact of price discrimination on Cineworld’s profit. Include an appropriate diagram in your answer. (Specimen) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Figure 2 and Extract A, discuss the possible impact of supermarket monopsony power on both food suppliers and consumers. (June 2017) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Figure 1, discuss the likely impact of price discrimination on Cineworld’s profit. Include an appropriate diagram in your answer. (June 2018) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss one likely reason for the rise in BT’s profit (Figure 2, Extracts B and C). Use a cost and revenue diagram to support your answer. (June 2019) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Extract A, paragraph 3, discuss whether the rail network can be considered to be a natural monopoly. (June 2020) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Extract C, discuss the proposed government subsidy to prevent Thomas Cook from reaching its shut-down point. (June 2021) | Extract | Model Answer
Using a cost and revenue diagram, discuss the likely impact of ‘rising costs’ for coffee shops on their profitability (Extract A, line 2). (June 2022) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Extract C, discuss the likely private and external benefits of viewing educational websites and TV programmes. (June 2023) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the likely concerns of the competition authorities regarding the proposed merger of the two companies referred to in Extract C. (June 2024) | Extract | Model Answer
Edexcel A-Level Economics Paper 2
With reference to Figure 1, discuss the use of GDP data as a means of comparing living standards among the five EAC member countries. (Specimen) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the likely success of the ECB’s quantitative easing programme in moving Eurozone inflation closer to ‘the central bank’s ceiling of 2%’ (Extract A, line 17). (June 2017) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Extract A, discuss two macroeconomic policies, apart from protectionism, that a government could use to reduce the negative effects of globalisation. (June 2018) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Extract C, discuss the potential conflicts between macroeconomic objectives when the central bank attempts to control inflation. (June 2019) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the problems for the Ivory Coast of dependency on cocoa for a large proportion of their exports. Refer to Figure 2 in your answer. (June 2020) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the likely impact on Rwandan consumers and clothing manufacturers of the increase in the tariff on imports of second-hand clothes. Use an appropriate diagram to support your answer. (June 2021) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Extract C and your own knowledge, discuss methods the UK government could use to increase tax revenue. (June 2022) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the impact of improved transport links between African countries on economic growth rates. (June 2023) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Extract B, discuss the use of quantitative easing in preventing deflation. (June 2024) | Extract | Model Answer
Edexcel A-Level Economics Paper 3
With reference to the information provided, discuss the likely impact of a change in the price of gas on the markets for solar energy and nuclear energy. (Specimen) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the costs to the Argentine economy of an inflation rate “estimated by some economists to be over 25%” (Extract D, line 9). (Specimen) | Extract | Model Answer
Apart from externalities, discuss the problems that Chile faces as a result of dependency on copper mining. (June 2017) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the likely impact of the National Living Wage on the profitability of firms. Use a cost and revenue diagram in your answer. (June 2017) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Figure 3 and other information provided, discuss the price and non-price strategies that Starbucks may use to increase profitability. (June 2018) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the benefits of aid to Indonesia. (June 2018) | Extract | Model Answer
In Extract A, lines 15–16, it was suggested that some firms may respond to the advertising ban by cutting the prices of their products. Using game theory and the information provided in Figure 1 and Extract A, discuss the effects on firms of cutting prices in an oligopolistic market. (June 2019) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss whether borrowers benefit from microfinance. Make reference to Mozambique in your answer. (June 2019) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the likely success of policies to reduce the consumption of single‑use plastic bags in cities such as Istanbul. (June 2020) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss factors that are causing many high street retailers in the UK to close some branches or shut down completely. Use a cost and revenue diagram to support your answer. (June 2020) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the likely effects of changes in the level of migration on firms such as HCWs in the UK. Use a labour market diagram and the information provided to support your answer. (June 2021) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the likely impact of investment in new technology on the profitability of firms in Germany, as described in Extract C line 20. Use a cost and revenue diagram to support your answer. (June 2021) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Extract C, discuss the likely effects of increasing integration within the food delivery market. (June 2022) | Extract | Model Answer
Using the example of cut flowers (Extract F), discuss how the concept of absolute advantage may lead to growth in Kenya. Use numerical or diagrammatic analysis in your answer. (June 2022) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss the likely impact of a rise in gas prices on a firm that uses a large amount of gas in its production process. Use a cost and revenue diagram to support your answer. (June 2023) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss possible methods of price and non‑price competition that firms could use to increase the value of sales on the high street. (June 2023) | Extract | Model Answer
With reference to Figure 2 and Extract B, discuss the possible constraints on business growth for firms supplying energy to households in the UK. (June 2024) | Extract | Model Answer
Discuss factors influencing the level of aggregate demand in Ghana. Use an aggregate demand and aggregate supply diagram in your answer. (June 2024) | Extract | Model Answer