What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past AQA A-Level papers and filtered to consumer and producer surplus. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on consumer and producer surplus, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Reversing the two areas. Consumer surplus is below demand, above price; producer surplus is above supply, below price.
- Forgetting that government tax revenue is a transfer, not part of the deadweight loss.
- Omitting the deadweight loss entirely when asked about welfare effects of a tax.
- Saying a subsidy raises welfare unconditionally, it creates deadweight loss unless it corrects a positive externality.
- Ignoring elasticity when discussing who bears a tax.
- Shading the tax revenue rectangle as if it were lost welfare.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Consumer and Producer Surplus revision notes.