What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Cambridge IGCSE papers and filtered to firms and production. 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 firms and production, 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 input).
- Saying economies of scale mean total costs fall. Total costs usually rise with output; average cost falls.
- Giving only one type of economy of scale when several are expected.
- Forgetting diseconomies of scale exist.
- Saying capital-intensive is always better. It depends on relative costs and the product.
- Treating division of labour as having no drawbacks.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Firms and Production revision notes.