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Edexcel AS Paper 1 Theme 1 Master Guide

Paper 1 Exam Structure

Section Marks Timing
Section A 20 25 minutes
Section B 60 65 minutes

Theme 1 Key Areas

1.1 Nature of Economics: scarcity, opportunity cost, PPF, specialisation, division of labour.

1.2 How Markets Work: demand, supply, price mechanism, PED, PES, YED, XED, consumer surplus, producer surplus.

1.3 Market Failure: externalities, public goods, information gaps, common access resources.

1.4 Government Intervention: tax, subsidy, maximum price, minimum price, regulation, government failure.

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