3 marks
Q2(f) Give one drawback for rival broadcasters of privatising Argentina's state radio station.
Edexcel · 4EC1
Privatisation comes up in 18 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 78 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 1R, iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Explain (5), Describe (3), Analyse (3). Specification points covered: 1.1.5, 2.1.2.
Q2(f) Give one drawback for rival broadcasters of privatising Argentina's state radio station.
Q2(e) Say how a firm gains from being privatised.
Q2(e) Give one downside of handing school meals in North Tyneside to a private provider.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up whether consumers gain from privatising an airport (context: Lagos).
Q3(d) Data response: the case for privatising a state airline (context: TAP Air Portugal).
Q1(d) Set out how a government gains from privatising.
Q1(h) Give one way privatisation benefits consumers in Brazil.
Q4(b) Data response: the drawbacks of Kazakhstan privatising its national railway.
Q1(c) Give the meaning of privatisation.
Q3(e) Data response: what privatising a college might achieve.
Q1(h) Give one drawback of privatisation for telecoms workers in Angola.
Q2(d) Give the meaning of privatisation.
Q3(a) Multiple choice naming the sale of a government enterprise to the private sector.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up whether a national airline gains from privatisation.
Q2(f) Say how consumers gain from privatisation.
Q2(f) Give one way privatisation could raise airport productivity.
Q3(d) Data response: what privatisation offers the Slovenian government.
Q1(b) Multiple choice naming the transfer of public assets to private hands.
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