plumiNon-competitive markets: AQA GCSE Economics questions
AQA GCSE Economics past-paper questions on 3.1.5.3 Non-competitive markets, 2020–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available.
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All 14 questions on Non-competitive markets, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q22 (2 marks): 2 2 Define the term ‘monopoly’. [2 marks]
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q24 (6 marks): 800 Octopus 11.5 5 100 000 203 Ovo 11.2 5 000 000 20 EDF Energy 9.5 3 600 000 1 100 Scottish Power 7.8 3 000 000 487 In recent years, the ‘Big 6’ energy firms h
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q25 (6 marks): 2 5 Explain two ways producers operate in a non-competitive market such as the UK domestic energy market. [6 marks]
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q26 (15 marks): 2 6 Do you think the benefits to consumers of monopoly power in the domestic energy market are greater than the disadvantages? Use Item A, on page 14, and your
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q9 (1 mark): Which of the following firms is most likely to be a monopoly? [1 mark]
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q16 (2 marks): 1 6 State two features of an oligopoly. [2 marks]
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q16 (2 marks): 1 6 State two features of a non-competitive market. [2 marks]
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q15 (6 marks): 1 5 Using Figure 1, analyse the possible consequences for consumers of the UK petrol station market being dominated by a small number of large firms. [6 marks]
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q20 (3 marks): 2 0 Using the information in Table 4, draw and label a bar chart to show sales of video game consoles made by Nintendo and Microsoft in 2017 and 2019. [3 marks]
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q21 (9 marks): 2 1 Using Figure 4, assess the costs and benefits to consumers of having a market dominated by a small number of firms. [9 marks]
- November 2020, Paper 1, Q8 (1 mark): Which of the following are characteristics of a monopoly market? [1 mark]
- November 2020, Paper 1, Q23 (3 marks): 3550
- November 2020, Paper 1, Q25 (6 marks): 2 5 Using Item A, analyse how consumers might be affected by the changing structure of the UK toys and games market. [6 marks]
- November 2020, Paper 1, Q26 (15 marks): 2 6 Do you think the UK government should intervene to increase competition in the UK toys and games market? Use Item A and Figure 5 and your own economic knowl
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