Q1(a) Multiple choice on the most likely driver of increased globalisation (tariffs, transport costs, multinationals or communication costs).
Edexcel · 4EC1
Globalisation comes up in 18 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 64 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (6), Analyse (3), Explain (3). Specification points covered: 2.2.1.
Q1(a) Multiple choice on the most likely driver of increased globalisation (tariffs, transport costs, multinationals or communication costs).
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. what share of Ghana's population worked on small cocoa farms in 2024.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up what globalisation does for Ghana's cocoa farmers (context: farmers on $2 a day against 16% profit growth for chocolate manufacturers).
Q1(d) Set out how cheaper communication has driven globalisation.
Q2(c) Name one way globalisation affects consumers.
Q2(a) Multiple choice on what cheaper transport and communications do to an economy.
Q3(d) Data response: how consumers gain from globalisation (context: $29 trillion of world trade).
Q3(d) Data response: how globalisation benefits clothing manufacturers.
Q2(b) Multiple choice on the most likely driver of increased globalisation.
Q1(d) Give the meaning of globalisation.
Q3(b) Multiple choice on an effect of globalisation.
Q2(a) Multiple choice completing a statement about what globalisation increases.
Q2(f) Give one reason cheaper transport has driven globalisation.
Q2(f) Give one reason cheaper communication has driven globalisation.
Q1(h) Data response: how cheaper transport has driven globalisation.
Q3(c) Give one way globalisation has affected US consumers.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up what globalisation brings Kenya's flower industry.
Q1(a) Multiple choice naming the growing integration and interdependence of economies.
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