A free, syllabus-mapped checklist for Cambridge IGCSE Economics (0455) — covering both the 2026 exam syllabus and the new syllabus for 2027 to 2029 — so you always know exactly what's left to revise before Paper 1 and Paper 2.
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Scarcity, unlimited wants, and the three basic questions: what, how, and for whom to produce.
Land, labour, capital and enterprise: their rewards, mobility, and what changes their quantity and quality.
The next-best alternative given up, and how it shapes decisions by consumers, workers, firms and governments.
Drawing and reading PPCs: points under, on and beyond the curve, movements along it, and shifts.
The difference between the two branches, and which decision-makers sit in each.
How buyers and sellers interact through the price mechanism to answer the basic economic questions.
Individual vs market demand, and the difference between movements along and shifts of the demand curve.
Individual vs market supply, and the difference between movements along and shifts of the supply curve.
Market equilibrium and disequilibrium, plus shortages and surpluses.
How shifts in demand and supply cause price changes, and their knock-on effects on sales.
Calculating PED, its determinants, and the link to consumer spending and firm revenue.
Calculating PES, and what makes supply elastic or inelastic.
How a market economy works, plus its advantages and disadvantages.
Public, merit and demerit goods, externalities, and monopoly power as causes of misallocated resources.
Government intervention: price controls, indirect tax, subsidies, regulation and (de)nationalisation.
The functions of money, and the roles of central and commercial banks.
What drives households' spending, saving and borrowing decisions.
Occupation choice, wage determination, reasons for wage differences, and labour mobility.
Their role in collective bargaining, and the advantages and disadvantages of union activity.
Classification, small vs large firms, growth, mergers, and economies/diseconomies of scale.
Labour-intensive vs capital-intensive production, and the difference between production and productivity.
Calculating TC, ATC, FC, VC, AFC, AVC, TR and AR, and what firms are trying to achieve.
Competitive markets vs monopoly, and their effects on price, quality, choice and profit.
Government's economic role locally, nationally and internationally.
Growth, employment, stable prices, balance of payments and income redistribution, and where these aims conflict.
Government budgets, spending and taxation, and how fiscal measures target the macro aims.
Interest rates, money supply and exchange rate tools used to hit the macro aims.
Measures like education, training and deregulation aimed at long-run productive capacity.
Measuring growth with real GDP, its causes and consequences, and policies to promote it.
Measuring unemployment, its types (frictional, structural, cyclical), and policies to reduce it.
Measuring inflation via the CPI, demand-pull vs cost-push causes, and their consequences.
Real GDP per head vs the Human Development Index as measures of living standards.
Absolute vs relative poverty, its causes, and policies to reduce it.
Birth and death rates, migration, and the effects of population size and structure.
Why countries differ in income, productivity, sector size, saving, education and healthcare.
Why countries specialise, and the advantages and disadvantages of doing so.
MNCs, the case for free trade, and the methods and reasons behind protectionism.
How floating and fixed exchange rates are set, and what causes them to move.
Its structure, and the causes and consequences of deficits and surpluses.
Scarcity, unlimited wants, and the difference between economic and free goods.
Land, labour, capital and enterprise, their rewards, and what changes their quantity and quality.
The next-best alternative given up in decisions by consumers, workers, firms and governments.
Points under, on and beyond the curve, movements along it, and shifts.
How markets, buyers and sellers work to answer the basic economic questions.
Individual vs market demand, and the difference between movements along and shifts of the demand curve.
Individual vs market supply, and the difference between movements along and shifts of the supply curve.
Market equilibrium, disequilibrium, shortages and surpluses.
Causes and consequences of price changes.
Calculating PED (including perfectly, unitary and perfectly elastic), and its effect on revenue.
Calculating PES and its determinants.
Advantages and disadvantages of a market economy.
Public, merit and demerit goods, externalities, and monopoly as causes of misallocated resources.
Arguments for and against, plus the tools government uses to intervene.
The functions of money, and the roles of central and commercial banks.
What drives spending, saving and borrowing, including income, interest rates, confidence, age and culture.
Occupation choice, wage determination (including trade unions' bargaining power), wage gaps, and mobility.
Types of firms, mergers, and economies/diseconomies of scale (with ATC diagrams).
Labour- vs capital-intensive production, and the difference between production and productivity.
Calculating costs and revenue, and what firms are trying to achieve.
Competitive markets vs monopoly, and their effects on price, quality, choice and profit.
The macroeconomic aims of government, and where those aims conflict.
Budgets, government spending and taxation, and fiscal measures targeting the macro aims.
Interest rates, money supply and exchange rate tools.
Measures like education, infrastructure spending and deregulation.
Measuring growth, the causes and consequences of growth and recession, and policies to promote it.
Measuring unemployment, its types, and policies to reduce it.
Measuring inflation via the CPI, its causes and consequences, and policies to control it.
Real GDP per head vs the Human Development Index as measures of living standards.
Absolute vs relative poverty, its causes, and policies to reduce it.
Birth and death rates, migration, and the effects of population size and structure.
Why countries differ in income, productivity, sector size, saving, education and healthcare.
Why countries specialise, and the case for free trade.
Causes and consequences of globalisation, MNCs, and the methods and reasons behind protectionism.
How exchange rates are set, and what causes them to move.
Its structure, and the causes and consequences of deficits and surpluses.
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From 2027, Cambridge lengthened Paper 1 from 30 to 40 questions and shortened Paper 2 from 90 to 80 marks, folded Trade Unions into the Workers topic, trimmed back deflation content, and added more on sustainability and the effects of monopoly. Topic numbering shifts slightly too — use the toggle above to see exactly what applies to you.
If your IGCSE Economics exam is in June or November 2026, you're on the current (2026) syllabus. If your exam is in 2027 or later, you're on the new syllabus. Ask your school or tutor if you're not sure.
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