Introductory Microeconomics, BA (Programme)
Scarcity, opportunity cost and the PPF
Every paper it came up in, with its marks and how they split between numerical and theory.
6/8papers it came in, 2022 to 2025
6.2marks on average when it comes
10most marks it has carried in one paper
Numerical 16%Theory 84%of its marks over all papers
This topic only ever appears as the OR choice against Consumer and producer surplus, tariffs and quotas. Learn one of the two, not both; the plan leaves this one out unless you drop the other.
Where it appeared one per sitting
Current syllabus UGCF papers, newest first
- PPC when every factor becomes three times as efficient3 marksQuestion 1 (a)(i), December 2025, paper 6517
- PPC when a new seed triples the yield of rice3 marksQuestion 1 (a)(ii), December 2025, paper 6517
- Scarcity, opportunity cost and the PPF3 marksQuestion 1 (a)(i), December 2025, paper 6349, being checked
- Scarcity, opportunity cost and the PPF3 marksQuestion 1 (a)(ii), December 2025, paper 6349, being checked
- Opportunity cost: a thing costs what is given up for it4 marksQuestion 1 (d), December 2025, paper 6349
- Scarcity, opportunity cost and the PPF6 marksQuestion 1 (a), January 2025, paper 2555, being checked
- PPC for wheat and machines when every input doubles in efficiency3 marksQuestion 1 (a)(i), January 2025, paper 2535
- PPC for wheat and machines when a new seed triples wheat yield3 marksQuestion 1 (a)(ii), January 2025, paper 2535
- The production possibility frontier, and points on, inside and beyond it6 marksQuestion 1 (a), January 2024, paper 887
- The production possibilities curve3 marksQuestion 2 (a), 2022–23, paper 3105
See the whole order.Every topic of Introductory Microeconomics ranked by what it adds, with the OR choices accounted for.
Study order