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Mark Scheme (Results)

October 2020

Pearson Edexcel GCE

In Economics A (8EC0)

Paper 1: Introduction to Markets and

Market Failure

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General Marking Guidance

• All candidates must receive the same treatment.

Examiners must mark the first candidate in exactly the

same way as they mark the last.

• Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates

must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do

rather than penalised for omissions.

• Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme

not according to their perception of where the grade

boundaries may lie.

• There is no ceiling on achievement. All marks on the

mark scheme should be used appropriately.

• All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be

awarded. Examiners should always award full marks if

deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the mark scheme.

Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks

if the candidate’s response is not worthy of credit

according to the mark scheme.

• Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will

provide the principles by which marks will be awarded

and exemplification may be limited.

• When examiners are in doubt regarding the application

of the mark scheme to a candidate’s response, the team

leader must be consulted.

• Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the

candidate has replaced it with an alternative response.

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