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Q2(a) Multiple choice picking the unobtainable point from a production possibility curve diagram.
Edexcel · 4EC1
Production possibility curves comes up in 14 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 42 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 1R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 6 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (6), Draw/Diagram (4), Analyse (4). Specification points covered: 1.1.1.
Q2(a) Multiple choice picking the unobtainable point from a production possibility curve diagram.
Q1(a) Multiple choice: what can a PPC point stand for?
Q3(c) Diagram question: draw a production possibility curve for a firm and label the shift.
Q1(a) Multiple choice on what could have shifted the economy from one production possibility frontier to another.
Q3(d) Data response: what could have moved the economy from one production possibility frontier to another.
Q1(i) Data response: what a movement along the production possibility curve means for the economy.
Q3(d) Data response: what moved the economy from one production possibility frontier to another.
Q3(c) Diagram question: draw a production possibility frontier for a firm making tables and chairs.
Q2(a) Multiple choice picking the point showing unemployed resources on a PPC.
Q1(a) Multiple choice: what a PPC point represents.
Q3(c) Diagram question: draw a production possibility frontier and show the effect of producing more calendars.
Q3(c) Diagram question: draw two production possibility curves showing an economy shifting outwards.
Q2(b) Multiple choice picking the unachievable point on a production possibility curve.
Q3(e) Data response: what moved the economy from one production possibility frontier to another.
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