Year 10 End of Year GCSE Assessment - May 2025

The Year 10 Mock will take place on Friday 23rd May. 

This will assess unit 1.1 Markets and 1.2 Business economics. This will be a full paper 1 examination

Time: The exam will last 90 minutes

Questions: This will follow the structure of a paper 1 exam. You will have to answer 4 questions totaling 20 marks for each section. Total marks available will be 80 marks.

What to revise?

The following topics will be examinable.

Unit 1.1 The market system:

• The economic problem

• Economic assumptions

• Demand, supply and market equilibrium

• Elasticity

• The mixed economy

• Externalities

Unit 1.2 Business economics:

• Production

• Productivity and division of labour

• Business costs, revenues and profit

• Business competition

• The labour market

• Government intervention

How to revise

To revise, students can use the following resources that are also available on Microsoft Teams

In particular, they should use:

- Teacher PowerPoints

- Class handouts

- Past papers (available here and on Teams files)

- Textbooks (see below and Teams files)

Other Useful resources

Revision notes are available here: www.savemyexams.com/igcse/economics/edexcel/17/revision-notes/

Past paper questions are available here: https://shorturl.at/7jScR

Textbook here: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) Economics Student Book (2) (2).pdf