Edexcel · 4EC1

Demand

16questions
32marks
9series
2019–2025years

Demand comes up in 16 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 32 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 1R.

Tariffs run from 1 to 6 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (6), Define (4), Analyse (2). Specification points covered: 1.1.3.

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June 2025 2 questions

6 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(d) Data response: Amazon Prime dropping tennis streaming - the effect on demand for Tennis TV subscriptions.

1.1.3DemandAnalyseData response essay
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q3(a) Multiple choice on what shifts a demand curve (production costs, quantity available, substitute prices or subsidies).

1.1.3DemandIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

Nov 2024 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(a) Multiple choice on what would shift a demand curve leftwards.

1.1.3DemandIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

Nov 2023 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(b) Multiple choice picking the true statement about a shift in the demand curve.

1.1.3DemandIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

June 2023 2 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q2(e) Give the meaning of a substitute.

1.1.3DemandDefineShort answer
3 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q3(c) Diagram question: plot and label a demand curve from the figures given.

1.1.3DemandDraw/DiagramShort answer

June 2022 2 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q1(d) Name one thing that shifts a demand curve leftwards.

1.1.3DemandStateShort answer
3 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(g) Give one effect on the cocoa demand curve of a price change.

1.1.3DemandExplainShort answer

Nov 2021 1 question

6 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(d) Data response: what a major sporting event did to the demand curve for a soft drink.

1.1.3DemandAnalyseData response essay

June 2021 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(a) Multiple choice on what shifts a demand curve.

1.1.3DemandIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

Nov 2020 3 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(b) Multiple choice on what a fall in motorcycle prices does to the helmet market.

1.1.3DemandIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q1(b) Multiple choice picking the diagram showing how a substitute's price cut shifts a market.

1.1.3DemandIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice
2 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(d) Give the meaning of demand.

1.1.3DemandDefineShort answer

June 2019 3 questions

2 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(c) Give the meaning of demand.

1.1.3DemandDefineShort answer
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q2(e) Name one thing that shifts a demand curve leftwards.

1.1.3DemandStateShort answer
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q1(e) Give the meaning of a substitute good.

1.1.3DemandDefineShort answer

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