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Week
Mon, 27 Aug
10
Wed, 29 Aug
Sept
Holiday
Lesson
330 530pm
Prepare Qn 6: 2009 A Level H2 Case Study
Mon, 10 Sept Revise all Sem 2 topics: Timed Concept-Writing
Term 4,
Week 1
Wed, 12
Sept
Wed, 19
LT 2: Timed Concept-Writing
Sept
Explain the market structure which best describes the GPs in Singapore and why
price discrimination can be successfully carried out in this industry.
[10]
(b)
If the Raffles Medical Group starts to acquire more and more of these private
clinics, discuss whether this is beneficial to the consumers.
[15]
QN 3: 2010 A LEVEL
The price of sugar, an ingredient in many canned soft drinks, dropped dramatically by
32% between July 2006 and October 2008. Healthy living campaigns meant consumers
became more aware of the possible health dangers of consuming too much sugar and
they switched to diet drinks that do not contain sugar.
Discuss how the combination of the fall in the price of sugar and the healthy living
campaigns might affect expenditure by consumers on non-diet and diet canned soft
drinks.
[25]
QN 4: IJC 2010 prelim
Developments in modern technology and increasing availability of books, magazines,
newspapers and other printed publications on the Internet have had major impact on the
demand and supply of print media and associated services.
Assess how the markets involved might be affected by these developments.
[25]
QN 5: 2011 H1 A level
Governments frequently impose indirect taxes in order to influence the pattern of
consumers' expenditure. The effectiveness of such policy measures, however, depends
crucially on how consumers respond.
(a) Explain, with the help of examples, the concepts of price elasticity of demand and
price elasticity of supply.
[10]
(b) Discuss the view that Government efforts to interfere in the working of the free
market through indirect taxation inevitably create more problems than they solve.
[15]
(a)
Compare the change in food prices between 2000 and 2007 with the change
in petroleum prices over the same period.
[2]
(b)
With the help of a diagram explain the effect of the introduction of food
price controls as described in Extract 1.
[2]
(c)
Explain why an increase of 70 million mouths to feed each year may cause
food prices to rise, showing how low stocks of food would affect the extent
of this rise in the short run.
[4]
(d)
(e)
(f)