AQA A-level Economics Paper 1 - 12th May 2025 [Exam Chat]
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AQA A-Level Economics Paper 1: Markets and market failure (1912411) - Monday 12th May 2025 [Exam Chat]
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Date/Time: Monday 12th May 2025 AM
Length: 2h
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Reply 1
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Does anyone have any predictions for what might come up? I'm really hoping for a privatisation vs nationalisation for Section A
Reply 2
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by bethr_20Does anyone have any predictions for what might come up? I'm really hoping for a privatisation vs nationalisation for Section A
dyu think that will come up? im just watching econ dal vids
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by bethr_20Does anyone have any predictions for what might come up? I'm really hoping for a privatisation vs nationalisation for Section A
It came up last year in the non context essays
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by Clazzz ZIt came up last year in the non context essays
does that mean its less likely to come up this year?
Reply 5
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by sbobdoes that mean its less likely to come up this year?
Yes but it doesn’t mean it won’t come up at all
Reply 6
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by Clazzz ZIt came up last year in the non context essays
I think it came up the year before too
Reply 7
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by oli.cjwI think it came up the year before too
Reply 8
I feel like indirect tax, oligopoly, causes or effects of poverty, polices to reduce poverty, polices to increase contestability in oligopoly markets.
National minimum wage
Policies to fix labour market instability
Causes of income and wealth inequality or effect???
Comparing government intervention
Perhaps plastic tax, vaping changes. So market failure in that sense (-ve externalities)
I’ll be surprised if public good comes up and that’s all I can think of rn
Considering the old spec and current spec past papers 🧍*♂️
National minimum wage
Policies to fix labour market instability
Causes of income and wealth inequality or effect???
Comparing government intervention
Perhaps plastic tax, vaping changes. So market failure in that sense (-ve externalities)
I’ll be surprised if public good comes up and that’s all I can think of rn
Considering the old spec and current spec past papers 🧍*♂️
Reply 9
is anyone going into this without confidence in a specific topic, and is that fine considering that there are multiple options for the questions
Reply 10
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by oli.cjwis anyone going into this without confidence in a specific topic, and is that fine considering that there are multiple options for the questions
Always me with a lot of labour markets! I don't mind poverty/inequality too much because it's very synoptic with macro, but if I had the choice between goods/service market failure and labour market failure I'd definitely pick the former
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by chaw4nnI feel like indirect tax, oligopoly, causes or effects of poverty, polices to reduce poverty, polices to increase contestability in oligopoly markets.
National minimum wage
Policies to fix labour market instability
Causes of income and wealth inequality or effect???
Comparing government intervention
Perhaps plastic tax, vaping changes. So market failure in that sense (-ve externalities)
I’ll be surprised if public good comes up and that’s all I can think of rn
Considering the old spec and current spec past papers 🧍*♂️
National minimum wage
Policies to fix labour market instability
Causes of income and wealth inequality or effect???
Comparing government intervention
Perhaps plastic tax, vaping changes. So market failure in that sense (-ve externalities)
I’ll be surprised if public good comes up and that’s all I can think of rn
Considering the old spec and current spec past papers 🧍*♂️
yeah but couldn't they ask about childcare, dentistry or the thames water scandal??
Reply 12
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by umanywayssyeah but couldn't they ask about childcare, dentistry or the thames water scandal??
Yeh those too
Reply 13
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Is privatisation vs public ownership unlikely as it has been in the papers from the past 2 years??
Reply 14
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by umanywayssyeah but couldn't they ask about childcare, dentistry or the thames water scandal??
Hey for dentistry what do you think they could possibly ask ? would it be a question about the market structure (oligoploy) or would it more be about the underprovision of a merit good with positive externalities and how best to resolve it ?
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by Sara2007Is privatisation vs public ownership unlikely as it has been in the papers from the past 2 years??
maybe in the form of market failure...idk..
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by Zeb.Hey for dentistry what do you think they could possibly ask ? would it be a question about the market structure (oligoploy) or would it more be about the underprovision of a merit good with positive externalities and how best to resolve it ?
maybe, but i was thinking more about the fact that dental care in the uk has become increasingly unafforable and harder to access especially for low incomes, so maybe something to do with that?
Reply 17
what happens (for paper 1 and 2) in the second part of the paper if you pick the 15 marker from one question and the 25 marker from a different question. can you get away with this?
Reply 18
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Sadly you have to pick one essay (either 1, 2 or 3) and this is for both the 15 and 25 marker. I'd recommend choosing your essay based off the 25 marker and if you get super stuck on the 15 marker you can just use very basic chains of analysis, although hopefully this won't be a huge issue because they will likely link together so if you understand the 25 marker then the 15 marker should be okay. Assuming you're year 13, best of luck for tomorrow (and if you're year 12 then you've got this)!
Reply 19
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by bethr_20Does anyone have any predictions for what might come up? I'm really hoping for a privatisation vs nationalisation for Section A
i feel like its more likely that there will be questions about gov intervention where you could talk about privatisation and nationalisation (im also hoping for this)
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