Edexcel · 4EC1

Externalities

31questions
91marks
12series
2019–2025years

Externalities comes up in 31 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 91 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 1R.

Tariffs run from 1 to 9 marks. The commonest instructions are State (8), Define (6), Identify (MCQ) (5). Specification points covered: 1.1.6.

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June 2025 3 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(d) Give the formula used to work out social costs.

1.1.6ExternalitiesStateShort answer
3 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(f) Give one reason the US government fines drivers to cut negative externalities (context: traffic-light cameras).

1.1.6ExternalitiesExplainShort answer
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q3(b) Multiple choice picking the external cost (litter, rent, indirect tax or vaccinations).

1.1.6ExternalitiesIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

Nov 2024 2 questions

2 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(c) Give the meaning of an external benefit.

1.1.6ExternalitiesDefineShort answer
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(d) Name something that counts as an external cost.

1.1.6ExternalitiesStateShort answer

June 2024 2 questions

2 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q2(d) Give the meaning of social benefits.

1.1.6ExternalitiesDefineShort answer
2 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(d) Give the meaning of social costs.

1.1.6ExternalitiesDefineShort answer

Nov 2023 2 questions

9 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q2(g) Data response: how well a tourist tax tackles negative externalities such as overcrowding.

1.1.6ExternalitiesAssessData response essay
6 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(d) Data response: why education in Japan counts as an external benefit.

1.1.6ExternalitiesAnalyseData response essay

June 2023 4 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(e) Give the meaning of congestion.

1.1.6ExternalitiesDefineShort answer
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(b) Multiple choice picking the formula for social benefits.

1.1.6ExternalitiesIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice
6 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(d) Data response: why people discount the harm of heavy mobile phone use.

1.1.6ExternalitiesAnalyseData response essay
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(c) Name something that counts as an external benefit.

1.1.6ExternalitiesStateShort answer

Jan 2023 3 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(b) Multiple choice picking the example of an external benefit.

1.1.6ExternalitiesIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(b) Multiple choice picking the formula for social benefits.

1.1.6ExternalitiesIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice
6 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q3(d) Data response: the external costs thrown off by building a residential tower.

1.1.6ExternalitiesAnalyseData response essay

June 2022 4 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(d) Give the formula for social benefits.

1.1.6ExternalitiesStateShort answer
6 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(i) Data response: what this kind of regulation does to externalities.

1.1.6ExternalitiesAnalyseData response essay
9 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(e) Data response: how far the costs of brick production in Bangladesh fall on third parties.

1.1.6ExternalitiesAssessData response essay
6 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q3(d) Data response: why vaccination counts as an external benefit.

1.1.6ExternalitiesAnalyseData response essay

Nov 2021 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(d) Give the formula for social costs.

1.1.6ExternalitiesStateShort answer

June 2021 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(b) Multiple choice picking the example of an external cost.

1.1.6ExternalitiesIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

Nov 2020 4 questions

2 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(c) Give the meaning of external costs.

1.1.6ExternalitiesDefineShort answer
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(d) Name something that counts as an external benefit.

1.1.6ExternalitiesStateShort answer
3 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q2(g) Give one reason the state fines speeding drivers to cut negative externalities.

1.1.6ExternalitiesExplainShort answer
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q1(e) Give the meaning of an external benefit.

1.1.6ExternalitiesDefineShort answer

Jan 2020 2 questions

9 marksiGCSE · Paper 1

Q3(e) Data response: whether fireworks generate more external costs than benefits.

1.1.6ExternalitiesAssessData response essay
1 markiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(d) Give the formula for social benefits.

1.1.6ExternalitiesStateShort answer

June 2019 3 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 1

Q1(d) Give the formula for social costs.

1.1.6ExternalitiesStateShort answer
2 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(e) Say why congestion counts as an external cost.

1.1.6ExternalitiesDescribeShort answer
3 marksiGCSE · Paper 1R

Q2(f) Give one reason the state pays private pharmacies to deliver flu vaccinations.

1.1.6ExternalitiesExplainShort answer

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