What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Edexcel IGCSE papers and filtered to production and productivity. 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 production and productivity, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Confusing production (total output) with productivity (output per worker).
- Saying economies of scale mean total costs fall. Total cost rises; it is average cost that falls.
- Listing types of economies of scale without explaining how each lowers average cost.
- Confusing diseconomies of scale with simply making a loss.
- Forgetting the disadvantages of the division of labour, especially occupational immobility.
- Mixing up the sectors, a bakery shop is tertiary (retail), a bread factory is secondary.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Production and Productivity revision notes.