Q1(h) Data response: why GDP measures growth usefully - India (7.2% in 2023).
Edexcel · 4EC1
Economic growth comes up in 25 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 75 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 1R, iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 9 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (6), Calculate (4), Explain (4). Specification points covered: 1.1.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.3.
Q1(h) Data response: why GDP measures growth usefully - India (7.2% in 2023).
Q1(b) Multiple choice on what makes GDP a useful growth measure.
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. the percentage change in India's GDP between 2021 and 2022.
Q1(b) Multiple choice picking a valid measurement of GDP.
Q2(b) Multiple choice on what could cause positive economic growth.
Q2(e) Give one reason rapid growth can hurt an economy such as Vietnam.
Q2(g) Data response: what infrastructure spending does to a country's productive potential.
Q1(h) Data response: where GDP falls short as a measure of growth - Singapore case.
Q1(d) Set out one harm that comes with economic growth.
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. the percentage change in Egypt's GDP per head between 2019 and 2020.
Q2(b) Multiple choice on a possible effect of economic growth.
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. the percentage rise in GDP per head between 2018 and 2019.
Q1(g) Give one drawback of economic growth - Malaysia case.
Q3(e) Data response: how good a measure of growth GDP is - Ghana case.
Q3(e) Data response: what growth offers - Turkmenistan case.
Q1(d) Name one thing that could cause positive economic growth.
Q1(c) Give the meaning of gross domestic product.
Q1(d) Set out one benefit of economic growth.
Q2(b) Multiple choice picking the measure of economic growth.
Q2(f) Give one reason a large slice of Greece's GDP goes unrecorded.
Q3(a) Multiple choice on what could produce economic growth.
Q4(a) Work out Vietnam's GDP per head to 2 d.p. for 2016.
Q1(d) Set out how growth affects a country's productive potential.
Q2(a) Multiple choice completing the definition or calculation of GDP per capita.
Q2(f) Give one environmental cost of rapid growth - China case.
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