6 marks
Q7(c) Analyse two reasons independent UK cycle shops stay small, using the competition extract and your own knowledge.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Size of businesses comes up in 7 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 62 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2025 and appear on International A Level Unit 3.
Tariffs run from 2 to 20 marks. The commonest instructions are Analyse (3), Calculate (2), Evaluate (2). Specification points covered: 3.3.1.2.
Q7(c) Analyse two reasons independent UK cycle shops stay small, using the competition extract and your own knowledge.
Q7(c) Analyse two drivers behind the forecast expansion of the worldwide fast-food market.
Q7(a) Work out how many Bangladeshi workers SMEs employ, from the business-size table and total employment.
Q7(b) Using the extract, analyse two things that made India the world's second largest smartphone market.
Q8 Evaluate why some firms remain small (context: 19% of UK construction firms being small or medium-sized in 2017). An appropriate diagram is required.
Q7(a) Work out, showing your method, how much electric car sales changed in percentage terms between 2013 and 2017 (Figure 1).
Q8 In July 2017 Metro Group split into New Metro and CECONOMY; evaluate the gains a demerger may bring the firm and its workers, with diagrams.
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