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Q1(b) Multiple choice on the likely consequence of successfully cutting unemployment.
Edexcel · 4EC1
Policy trade-offs comes up in 12 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 33 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) (4), State (3), Explain (2). Specification points covered: 2.1.3.
Q1(b) Multiple choice on the likely consequence of successfully cutting unemployment.
Q2(c) Name a trade-off that comes with inflation.
Q2(e) Give one reason growth and environmental protection pull against each other in an economy such as China.
Q1(g) Give one reason growth and inflation tend to move together in an economy.
Q3(a) Multiple choice on the likely consequence of falling unemployment.
Q2(c) Name a trade-off that comes with economic growth.
Q2(c) Name one downside of economic growth.
Q2(a) Multiple choice naming the concept of gaining one thing at the cost of another.
Q3(a) Multiple choice on the trade-off that comes with faster growth.
Q4(c) Data response: whether growth and environmental protection genuinely pull against each other.
Q1(d) Give the meaning of a trade-off.
Q4(b) Data response: how falling unemployment fed Vietnam's inflation.
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