20 marks
Q9 Assess, with diagrams, the gains when one firm naturally supplies a whole industry, as Sabesp does water in Sao Paulo.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Monopoly comes up in 7 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 123 marks between them. They run from 2018 to 2025 and appear on A Level Paper 1, International A Level Unit 3.
Tariffs run from 1 to 25 marks. The commonest instructions are Evaluate (5), Identify (MCQ) (1), Discuss (1). Specification points covered: 3.3.3.6, 3.4.5.
Q9 Assess, with diagrams, the gains when one firm naturally supplies a whole industry, as Sabesp does water in Sao Paulo.
Q4 Deduce what holds at profit-maximising output for Google, which held 84% of search in 2022.
Q7 Evaluate the efficiency of monopoly, naming at least one real monopolist — Tesla held 82% of the US EV market.
Q9 In an industry you select, how far does a monopoly market structure breed inefficiency (context: MTN Ghana holding 70% of the market, July 2020)? Diagrams required.
Q6(d) Using Extract A, discuss the case for treating the rail network as a natural monopoly.
Q9 Ethio Telecom was Ethiopia's sole state-owned telecoms provider in 2017; evaluate whether consumers gain from monopoly, using appropriate diagrams.
Q8 Evaluate whether consumers gain when a single firm holds a large market share, with diagram support (context: Apple, 38% of UK smartphones, July 2016).
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