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Cambridge IGCSE · 0455

Cambridge IGCSE Economics 0455 topical past papers

Cambridge IGCSE Economics (0455) is a two-year course usually taken at around age 14 to 16, introducing how individuals, firms and governments make choices about scarce resources. It covers the basic economic problem, the allocation of resources through markets and market failure, microeconomic decision makers such as households, workers, trade unions and firms, government and the macroeconomy, economic development, and international trade and globalisation. Students learn to analyse real economic situations with diagrams, calculations and data rather than by description alone.

Questions
3,475
Past papers
238
Years
2002–2026
With mark scheme
100%
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Economics 0455 chapters

The chapters the bank files this subject’s questions under, in syllabus order. Each has a page of its own.

Economics 0455 chapters, with how many questions each has
ChapterQuestionsYears
Basic Economic Problem: Choice and the Allocation of Resources4692003–2026
The Allocation of Resources: How the Market Works; Market Failure8172002–2026
The Individual As Producer, Consumer and Borrower5952003–2026
The Private Firm As Producer and Employer6842002–2026
Role of Government in Economy6732002–2026
Economic Indicators6622003–2026
Developed and Developing Economies: Trends in Production, Population and Living Standards4612002–2026
International Aspects5562002–2026

Revising Economics 0455 by topic

All candidates take the same two papers. Paper 1 is a multiple-choice paper drawn from every section of the syllabus, testing knowledge and analysis. Paper 2, Structured Questions, carries the greater share of the marks: Section A is a compulsory question built on unseen source material about a real economic situation, and Section B asks for three questions from a choice of four, each introduced by a short stimulus and divided into parts. Evaluation is examined only in Paper 2. The current syllabus is for examinations in 2026, and a new syllabus applies from 2027.

  • Momentum's chapters follow an older layout of the syllabus. The private firm as producer and employer and The individual as producer, consumer and borrower together correspond to today's microeconomic decision makers, while Role of government in economy and Economic indicators correspond to government and the macroeconomy.
  • The written papers are filed part by part under the topic each part examines. Each Section B question builds from a short definition to a final part asking you to discuss, so gather the discuss parts for a topic and practise writing both sides with a reasoned conclusion, as the mark scheme for those parts requires.
  • Questions from the former Paper 3, an analysis and critical evaluation paper that is no longer set, are data-response exercises. They remain useful practice for Section A of Paper 2, which also asks you to interpret and analyse unseen source material.
  • Multiple-choice questions often test one definition or one shift on a demand and supply diagram, while Paper 2 asks you to draw, label and explain the diagram. When you practise a market topic, sketch the diagram for each multiple-choice question too, so that the written version comes easily.
  • Calculators may be used in both papers, and calculations on price elasticity, inflation rates and price indices appear in each. Practise them until the method is routine, and set out the working in Paper 2, where the mark scheme can credit the method as well as the answer.

Practising in Momentum

  • Every question in a chapter as one list, from every paper and year in the bank, newest first or shuffled.
  • Each question turns over to its own part of the mark scheme, where the board published one.
  • Narrow by paper, year, session, zone and marks, and star the questions worth keeping.
  • Pick chapters, a number of questions and a time, and the exam builder draws a mock to sit and mark.
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