Q3(e) Data response: how well subsidies tackle externalities such as road congestion (context: Sri Lanka Railways' subsidised tickets).
Edexcel · 4EC1
Subsidies comes up in 19 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 89 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Draw/Diagram (6), Assess (3), Identify (MCQ) (3). Specification points covered: 1.1.6, 1.2.6, 2.1.2.
Q3(e) Data response: how well subsidies tackle externalities such as road congestion (context: Sri Lanka Railways' subsidised tickets).
Q1(f) Diagram question: show what France's EUR4bn hydrogen subsidy does to equilibrium price and quantity.
Q2(g) Data response: the environmental case for subsidising solar-powered stoves in Rwanda (context: a $17m scheme reaching 500 000+ households).
Q1(b) Multiple choice picking the diagram showing what higher subsidies to car makers do to the market.
Q3(a) Multiple choice on the upside of subsidising domestic producers.
Q2(g) Data response: what the US stands to gain from subsidising green technology (context: a $369bn programme).
Q1(f) Diagram question: Ghana withdraws its fuel subsidy - show the effect on petroleum price and quantity.
Q1(g) Diagram question: show what a subsidy does to the electric car market, labelling the new curve and equilibrium.
Q2(f) Diagram question: show what introducing a subsidy does to equilibrium price and quantity.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up subsidies as environmental protection - Spain case.
Q3(c) Give one reason the US government brought in the subsidy described.
Q2(e) Set out one drawback to a government of using subsidies.
Q3(c) Give one reason the UK subsidises renewable energy firms.
Q1(f) Diagram question: show what a subsidy does to the price and quantity of renewable energy.
Q3(c) Give one benefit of subsidies - Bangladesh case.
Q1(f) Diagram question: show what a targeted car subsidy does to equilibrium price and quantity.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up public transport subsidies as environmental protection.
Q1(h) Data response: why India subsidised its sugar cane farmers.
Q2(a) Multiple choice picking the diagram showing an agricultural market after a subsidy is withdrawn.
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