Edexcel IGCSE Economics Past Papers
Every question paper and mark scheme from 2014–2024, free to download. 21 exam sittings, 61 papers.
All Edexcel IGCSE Economics papers below are free — no account and no download limit. Each sitting lists every unit with its question paper and mark scheme side by side, along with the paper reference printed on the booklet.
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About Edexcel IGCSE Economics past papers
This page holds 32 question papers and 29 mark schemes for IGCSE Economics, covering 21 exam sittings from 2014 to 2024. Every paper is free to open, with no account and no download limit, and each one sits beside its mark scheme so you can mark your own work the way an examiner would. The most recent sitting here is May 2024.
The units covered are P1, P1R, P2 and P2R. All papers here carry the specification code 4EC1. Papers marked R are replacement papers, set for a different time zone. They cover the same specification to the same standard, and because fewer students work through them they are a good choice when you want a paper you have not already seen.
Papers here come from the January, May, June, October and November series — about 1.9 sittings a year across the 11 years covered, which is why there is usually a recent paper available whichever session you are entered for. 3 of the question papers here do not yet have their mark scheme beside them; the rest are complete pairs. If you need one of the missing schemes, tell us and it usually goes up within a few days.
Revising Economics
Economics is less about remembering definitions than about using them to explain something happening in the question in front of you.
Diagrams earn marks, and they earn them only when labelled properly — axes, curves, and the shift being described. Practise drawing the standard diagrams from memory until they take under a minute, because in the exam they will be the fastest marks you earn.
The longer evaluation questions follow a shape: make a point, explain the chain of reasoning behind it, then weigh it against a counter-argument and reach a judgement. Students who stop after the explanation lose the evaluation marks, which are usually the largest block on the paper.
Use the data and context given. A general answer about inflation scores far less than the same answer applied to the specific country and figures in the question.
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