Opening 16 November · Open to every IGCSE student
IGCSE Economics (0455) Mock Exam
Full-syllabus papers, written for the February/March 2027 sitting.
The Economics paper opens on 16 November 2026. Reserve your seat now and we will email you the moment it goes live — then come back and sit it.
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The IGCSE Mock Exams papers open on 16 November 2026.
40 questions · 1 hour
Built to Cambridge Paper 1 Multiple Choice. Timed, no pause, one sitting. Your first
attempt is the ranked one; every re-sit draws a fresh paper.
A Learning Platform plan is required to sit a Mock.
Free to read: the format, all 36 syllabus topics and the sample questions below.
What topics does the IGCSE Economics mock exam cover?
All of them. Questions are sampled from the entire Cambridge IGCSE Economics 0455 syllabus — 6 sections and 36 topics — rather than a selected list. Every topic below can appear.
1. The basic economic problem
- The nature of the basic economic problem
- Factors of production
- Opportunity cost
- Production possibility curve (PPC) diagrams
2. The allocation of resources
- The role of markets in allocating resources
- Demand
- Supply
- Price determination
- Price changes
- Price elasticity of demand (PED)
- Price elasticity of supply (PES)
- Market economic system
- Market failure
- Mixed economic system
3. Microeconomic decision-makers
- Money and banking
- Households
- Workers
- Firms
- Firms and production
- Firms' costs, revenue and objectives
- Types of markets
4. Government and the macroeconomy
- Government macroeconomic intervention
- Fiscal policy
- Monetary policy
- Supply-side policy
- Economic growth
- Employment and unemployment
- Inflation
5. Economic development
- Living standards
- Poverty
- Population
- Differences in economic development between countries
6. International trade and globalisation
- Specialisation and free trade
- Globalisation and trade restrictions
- Foreign exchange rates
- Current account of the balance of payments
Economics 0455 and Accounting 0452 are built to the revised 2027 specification, first assessed in March 2027. No past papers exist in that format yet, so original questions are the only practice material there is.
Topic names follow the published Cambridge IGCSE Economics 0455 syllabus.
What you get when you submit
Your score
Out of 40, the moment you submit, with no waiting for marking.
An indicative grade band
Based on how everyone else who sat this paper scored. Not a Cambridge grade boundary.
A topic-by-topic breakdown
Which of the 36 Economics topics cost you marks, so you know what to revise next.
Worked solutions
Shown on submit for every question, so you can see where the reasoning went wrong.
Grade bands are indicative and come from the score distribution of everyone who has sat the paper, recalculated monthly. They are not Cambridge grade boundaries. Your percentile is the share of first ranked attempts in that subject scoring lower than you. It appears once 50 students have sat the paper.
What do the questions look like?
3 sample Economics questions, in the format you will meet them on the paper. Pick an answer to see the worked solution — the same way the real paper shows them the moment you submit.
- 1 1. The basic economic problem
A government uses a plot of land to build a hospital. The next best alternative use was a school. What is the opportunity cost?
Answer B. Opportunity cost is the next best alternative forgone — here, the school. The first option is the most common answer and the wrong one: opportunity cost is measured in what you gave up, not in money spent. - 2 2. The allocation of resources
The price of a good rises by 10% and the quantity demanded falls by 5%. Which statement is correct?
Answer B. PED = 5 ÷ 10 = 0.5. A value below 1 means demand is price inelastic, so quantity responds proportionally less than price — the price rise outweighs the fall in quantity and total revenue rises. Students who get the elasticity right often still pick the wrong revenue direction, so work the two parts separately. - 3 4. Government and the macroeconomy
Which of these is most likely to cause demand-pull inflation?
Answer C. Demand-pull inflation comes from aggregate demand rising faster than the economy's ability to supply, which is exactly what extra spending does near full employment. The other three raise firms' costs and are examples of cost-push inflation — the distinction between the two causes is what this question is testing.
Every question is original and written against a specific objective in the Cambridge IGCSE Economics 0455 syllabus. They are not past-paper questions.
What a plan includes, and what is open to everyone
The gate is listed here, before you start. Nothing below is discovered on the result screen.
| Learning Platform plan | Without a plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Sit the Mock (40 questions, timed) | Yes, as often as you like. Your first attempt is the ranked one. | — |
| Your score and an indicative grade band | The moment you submit. | — |
| Worked solutions on every question | Shown on submit. | — |
| Topic-by-topic breakdown and the full question-by-question report | Included. | — |
| Your percentile against everyone else sitting it | On your ranked attempt, once 50 students have sat that subject. | — |
| The paper format, the full syllabus scope and the sample questions | Yes. | Yes — everything on these pages, no account needed. |
| Round 2 theory papers | A paid add-on. | — |
A Learning Platform plan is required to sit a Mock. There is no free paper in this section — what is free is everything on these pages: the format, the full syllabus scope and the sample questions. Tutopiya's revision tools, lesson notes and past-paper resources stay free and need no account.
Frequently asked questions
What does the IGCSE Economics mock exam cover? +
The whole Cambridge IGCSE Economics 0455 syllabus — all 6 sections and 36 topics, listed in full on this page. Questions are drawn from across the syllabus rather than a selected list, which is why these papers are written for the February/March 2027 sitting.
How long is the Economics paper? +
40 questions in 1 hour, matching Cambridge Paper 1 Multiple Choice. It is timed, cannot be paused, and is sat in one go.
Which specification is the Economics paper built to? +
The revised 2027 specification, first assessed in March 2027. Economics Paper 1 changed at that cycle, so no past papers exist in the current format and original questions are the only practice material available.
How much does the IGCSE Economics mock exam cost? +
Sitting it needs a Tutopiya Learning Platform plan — there is no free Economics paper in this section, and we would rather say so here than after you have answered 40 questions. The plan covers unlimited re-sits, worked solutions, your indicative grade band, the topic-by-topic breakdown, the full question-by-question report and your percentile. Everything on this page — the format, all 36 syllabus topics and the sample questions — is free to read with no account.
Are these real Cambridge Economics past papers? +
No. They are original exam-style questions written by Tutopiya's subject specialists against the published Cambridge IGCSE Economics 0455 syllabus. They are not past papers, and Tutopiya is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.
I am sitting Economics in May/June 2027. Can I use this? +
You can, but these papers sample the whole syllabus, so you will meet topics you have not been taught yet and your score will understate where you stand. A May/June edition is coming. In the meantime the sample questions on this page show the question style for nothing.
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