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

4.1.5.6 Monopoly

Also AQA AS 7135: 3.1.4.4

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

What's on this sheet

  1. Characteristics
  2. Third-degree price discrimination
  3. The diagrams
  4. Costs and benefits
  5. Worked example
  6. Classic question: is monopoly always against the public interest?
  7. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  8. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. Who serves consumers better?
  2. Set two prices
  3. What keeps rivals out?
  4. Monopoly trainer
  5. Good or bad monopoly?
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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