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Introductory Microeconomics

100 answers across 8 recent sittings.

Start with December 2025, paper 6517
answers
100
papers
8
topics ranked
12

Study order

Learn the topics in this order. Each one shows the marks it adds to a 90-mark paper on top of the topics above it, from the 8 current-syllabus papers (2022–23, paper 3091 to December 2025, paper 6517). An OR choice counts once. These papers let you choose which questions to attempt, so the running total stops at 90 once the topics you know can fill a paper.

Learn firsteach adds 9 marks or more

  1. 1
    Consumer and producer surplus, tariffs and quotasQ1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5, Q6, Q7, Q827 past questions, 8 h 21 m
    adds +20.920.9
  2. 2
    ExternalitiesQ6, Q7, Q817 past questions, 6 h 24 m
    adds +1636.9
  3. 3
    Supply, demand and market equilibriumQ2, Q3, Q4, Q5, Q6, Q819 past questions, 5 h 39 m
    adds +14.151
  4. 4
    Consumer choice: budget line and indifference curvesQ3, Q4, Q5, Q6, Q715 past questions, 5 h 15 m
    adds +13.164.1
  5. 5
    Tax incidence, deadweight loss and subsidiesQ3, Q4, Q5, Q6, Q7, Q812 past questions, 4 h 57 m
    adds +11.175.2

Subtotal, 5 topics75.2 of 90 marks

Then these3 to 9 marks each

  1. 6
    Elasticity of demand and supplyQ2, Q3, Q4, Q516 past questions, 4 h 48 m
    adds +7.582.8
  2. 7
    Economic models, incentives, efficiency and equityQ1, Q210 past questions, 3 h 24 m
    adds +4.887.5

Subtotal, 7 topics87.5 of 90 marks

If time allowsunder 3 marks each

  1. 8
    Price ceilings, floors and rationingQ3, Q4, Q6, Q88 past questions, 3 h 9 m
    adds +1.989.4
  2. 9
    Public goods and common resourcesQ5, Q6, Q7, Q816 past questions, 5 h 9 m
    adds +0.690

Total, 9 topics90 of 90 marks

Pick one of each pair

The first topic only comes up as the OR choice against the second, so one of the two is enough.

Doing every question in the order once, at exam pace, takes about 47 h 6 m. Averages over past papers, not promises.

Turn it into a day-by-day plan

Not on the ladder not ranked; the reason is against each

Question by question

The topics each question has asked in the 8 current-syllabus papers (2022–23, paper 3091 to December 2025, paper 6517).

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

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Question 6

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Question 8

AskedOnly as the OR choiceNot asked