Introductory Microeconomics, BA (Programme)
Tax incidence, deadweight loss and subsidies
Every paper it came up in, with its marks and how they split between numerical and theory.
No. 5in the study order: adds 11.1 marks to a 90-mark paper7/8papers it came in, 2022 to 2025
14.1marks on average when it comes
25most marks it has carried in one paper
Numerical 16%Theory 84%of its marks over all papers
Where it appeared one per sitting
December 2025, paper 6517Q4 in this paperDecember 2025, paper 6349Q3, Q4 in this paperJanuary 2025, paper 2555Q3, Q4 in this paperJanuary 2025, paper 2535Q4 in this paperJanuary 2024, paper 907Q4, Q6, Q8 in this paperJanuary 2024, paper 887Q3, Q5 in this paper2022–23, paper 3105not asked2022–23, paper 3091Q7 in this paper
Current syllabus UGCF papers, newest first
- What decides how a tax's burden is shared6 marksQuestion 4 (b), December 2025, paper 6517
- Tax incidence, deadweight loss and subsidies6 marksQuestion 3 (a), December 2025, paper 6349, being checked
- What decides how a tax burden is shared between buyers and sellers9 marksQuestion 4 (a), December 2025, paper 6349
- Tax incidence, deadweight loss and subsidies6 marksQuestion 3 (a), January 2025, paper 2555, being checked
- Tax incidence, deadweight loss and subsidies8 marksQuestion 4 (b), January 2025, paper 2555, being checked
- Tax incidence, deadweight loss and subsidies6 marksQuestion 4 (b), January 2025, paper 2535, being checked
- Elasticity and tax incidence: the less elastic side bears more of the tax6 marksQuestion 4 (b), January 2024, paper 907
- A tax of Rs. 10 a unit on consumers with Q = 360 − P and Q = 2P: the price paid and the price received10 marksQuestion 6 (b), January 2024, paper 907
- How the deadweight loss of a tax depends on the size of the tax and on the elasticities of demand and supply9 marksQuestion 8 (a), January 2024, paper 907
- A tax of Rs. 8 a unit on buyers with Qd = 560 - 5p and Qs = 5p + 1206 marksQuestion 3 (b), January 2024, paper 887, being checked
- Tax incidence, deadweight loss and subsidies12 marksQuestion 5 (a), January 2024, paper 887, being checked
- Tax incidence, deadweight loss and subsidies15 marksQuestion 7, 2022–23, paper 3091, being checked
See the whole order.Every topic of Introductory Microeconomics ranked by what it adds, with the OR choices accounted for.
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