4 marks
Q8 Give one benefit of using specialist trades rather than generalists when building a house.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Specialisation & division of labour comes up in 6 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 37 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on International A Level Unit 1.
Tariffs run from 1 to 20 marks. The commonest instructions are Explain (4), Evaluate (1), Identify (MCQ) (1). Specification points covered: 1.3.1.5.
Q8 Give one benefit of using specialist trades rather than generalists when building a house.
Q14 Evaluate the gains firms and their staff get from splitting up tasks, referring to a chosen industry.
Q9 Henry Ford switched to assembly lines during the 1920s; explain one benefit a car maker gains from the division of labour.
Q2 A clothing manufacturer introduced the division of labour in 2020. Identify the likely advantage. (more boredom / higher cost per garment / higher output per worker / more training time)
Q9 Drawing on Adam Smith's pin factory, explain a single benefit firms gain when production is organised by division of labour.
Q8 Rimac reorganised its car plant around division of labour; set out one gain this brings to manufacturing.
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