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EconomicsQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every Singapore Economics syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Demand and Supply
- Define demand and the law of demand, and explain why the demand curve slopes downward1Q&A pairs
- Identify the factors that shift the demand curve and explain how each changes demand3Q&A pairs
- Identify the factors that shift the supply curve and explain how each changes supply4Q&A pairs
- Distinguish between a movement along a demand or supply curve and a shift of the whole curve3Q&A pairs
- Define supply and the law of supply, and explain why the supply curve slopes upward1Q&A pairs
Firms, Production and Costs
- Define fixed, variable and total costs, average cost, revenue and profit, and calculate them4Q&A pairs
- Explain economies and diseconomies of scale and how they affect a firm's average cost as it grows1Q&A pairs
- Explain the goals firms may pursue, including profit, survival, growth, market share and social aims2Q&A pairs
- Describe the main types and sizes of firms and explain why small firms survive alongside large ones1Q&A pairs
Government Macroeconomic Policies
- Evaluate macroeconomic policies, including the conflicts between aims and how to choose between policies1Q&A pairs
- Explain fiscal policy and how changes in government spending and taxation affect aggregate demand and the economy3Q&A pairs
- Explain monetary policy through interest rates and the exchange rate, and why Singapore uses the exchange rate2Q&A pairs
- Explain supply-side policies and how they raise productive capacity, growth and employment0Q&A pairs
International Trade and Globalisation
- Explain globalisation, its causes, and assess its benefits and costs for countries, firms and workers4Q&A pairs
- Explain protectionism, its methods such as tariffs and quotas, the arguments for and against it, and the case for free trade2Q&A pairs
- Explain the balance of trade and how exchange rate changes affect exports, imports and the trade balance0Q&A pairs
- Explain why countries trade, including specialisation, and the gains and risks of international trade1Q&A pairs
Market Failure and Government Intervention
- Explain the main tools governments use to correct market failure: taxes, subsidies, regulation and provision4Q&A pairs
- Explain market failure and externalities, distinguishing external costs from external benefits2Q&A pairs
- Explain merit and demerit goods and why the market under-provides the first and over-provides the second0Q&A pairs
- Explain maximum and minimum price controls and the shortages or surpluses they create3Q&A pairs
- Explain public goods using non-excludability and non-rivalry, and why the market fails to provide them0Q&A pairs
Price Determination and Elasticity
- Apply elasticity to pricing decisions, taxation, and the size of price changes in real markets2Q&A pairs
- Define income elasticity and cross elasticity of demand, calculate them, and interpret their signs2Q&A pairs
- Explain how equilibrium price and quantity are determined, and how shifts in demand and supply change them0Q&A pairs
- Define price elasticity of demand, calculate it, and explain the factors that determine it1Q&A pairs
- Define price elasticity of supply, calculate it, and explain the factors that determine it0Q&A pairs
Scarcity, Choice and Resource Allocation
- Identify the four factors of production, describe what each contributes, and link each to its reward2Q&A pairs
- Compare market, planned and mixed economies as different ways of allocating scarce resources, with their advantages and disadvantages6Q&A pairs
- Explain scarcity as the central economic problem and show how it forces choice, giving every decision an opportunity cost2Q&A pairs
- Explain the three basic economic questions of what, how and for whom to produce, and why every economy must answer them0Q&A pairs
- Use the production possibility curve to illustrate scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, unemployment and economic growth0Q&A pairs
The Macroeconomy and Its Aims
- Explain aggregate demand and its components, and the circular flow of income between households and firms2Q&A pairs
- Define economic growth and GDP, explain its causes, and assess its link to the standard of living0Q&A pairs
- Define inflation, explain its demand-pull and cost-push causes, and assess its consequences3Q&A pairs
- Define unemployment, explain its main types and causes, and assess its consequences1Q&A pairs