AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 1: Markets and market failure

4.1.5.3 Perfect competition

Also AQA AS 7135: 3.1.4.3

Everything you need for questions on perfect competition, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.

What's on this sheet

  1. Characteristics
  2. Short run to long run
  3. Firm and industry diagrams
  4. Efficiency in the long run
  5. Worked example
  6. Classic question: is perfect competition the best market structure?
  7. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  8. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. Run the market
  2. Which assumption?
  3. Try setting your own price
  4. Perfect competition trainer
  5. The ideal market?
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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