6 marks
Q3(d) Data response: how rising inflation drives menu costs for small UK firms (context: CPI up from 3.9% to 4%).
Edexcel · 4EC1
Inflation comes up in 33 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 104 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 9 marks. The commonest instructions are Analyse (8), Identify (MCQ) (8), Explain (5). Specification points covered: 2.1.1.
Q3(d) Data response: how rising inflation drives menu costs for small UK firms (context: CPI up from 3.9% to 4%).
Q1(b) Multiple choice on what causes cost-push inflation.
Q3(d) Data response: how rising inflation drives shoe leather costs for UK consumers (context: CPI up from 3.9% to 4%).
Q1(c) Give the meaning of deflation.
Q1(h) Data response: severe cost-push inflation and Turkish business confidence.
Q3(b) Multiple choice: from the CPI movement, work out what the basket now costs.
Q3(e) Data response: recession and German inflation.
Q3(b) Multiple choice picking a menu cost faced by an online retailer during inflation.
Q1(h) Data response: high inflation and German consumer confidence.
Q1(e) Work out the rise in the average price level between 2018 and 2021 from the CPI figures.
Q1(g) Name one way UK menu costs are affected when inflation rises.
Q1(a) Multiple choice completing a description of menu costs.
Q1(b) Multiple choice on what causes demand-pull inflation.
Q3(a) Multiple choice working the inflation rate from a CPI move of 1000 to 1050.
Q3(a) Multiple choice working the inflation rate from a CPI move of 120 to 150.
Q4(b) Data response: how rising wages feed inflation in Mexico.
Q1(g) Give the effect of wages outpacing inflation - Mexico case.
Q2(e) Name one way Nigerian shoe leather costs respond to rising inflation.
Q3(b) Multiple choice on what causes cost-push inflation.
Q1(e) Work out the inflation between 2015 and 2019 from the index figures.
Q2(c) Name a type of inflation.
Q3(a) Multiple choice describing shoe leather costs.
Q3(d) Data response: deflation and Singaporean consumer confidence.
Q4(b) Data response: what inflation does to individuals - China case.
Q1(e) Work out the 2018 inflation rate to 2 d.p. from the figures given.
Q1(g) Give the effect of high inflation on wages - Mexico case.
Q3(a) Multiple choice completing what drives cost-push inflation.
Q3(c) Why do governments target inflation that is low and steady? One reason.
Q1(a) Multiple choice on what the consumer price index measures.
Q1(d) Give the meaning of shoe leather costs.
Q2(a) Multiple choice working the inflation rate from the index figures given.
Q3(e) Data response: what inflation does - Turkey case.
Q3(d) Data response: high inflation and Argentine consumers.
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