Paper 1
Multiple choice
- Time
- 45 min
- Marks
- 30
- Weight
- 30%
Syllabus and practice guide
A clear map of what the course covers, how it is assessed, and where real archive practice fits.
The short version
The course moves from scarcity and resource allocation through firms, households, government policy, trade, development, and the global economy. Practice should combine definitions and diagrams with calculations, data response, chains of reasoning, and supported evaluation.
Assessment at a glance
There is no Core or Extended route. Paper 1 checks broad knowledge through multiple choice; Paper 2 tests structured economic reasoning, calculations, data interpretation, analysis, and evaluation.
Multiple choice
Structured questions
Historical archive papers span earlier syllabus cycles; use this table for the named current syllabus only.
Historical topic frequency
Bar length compares topic-tag counts across the covered years. The longest bar is the most frequently tagged topic in this archive.
This is observed historical frequency: the strongest archive-backed estimate of relative topic prevalence, not an official syllabus weighting or a guarantee of what appears next. A question can carry more than one topic label, so counts can overlap.
Paper practice
Each page explains the archive slice, then opens the same bank explorer with the exact paper filter applied.