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Economics Previous Year Questions

Practice Economics previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

6Papers
6Years
235Questions
7Topics

Economics question pattern

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Questions by year

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Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 138 58.7%
Medium 93 39.6%
Hard 4 1.7%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 129 54.9%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 67 28.5%
MSQ 39 16.6%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Economics
235 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Microeconomics
64 Qs
Statistics, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics
57 Qs
Macroeconomics
55 Qs
Indian Economy
18 Qs
International Economics
17 Qs
Development Economics
12 Qs
Public Economics
12 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Production, Costs and Market Structures
26 Qs
Probability, Sampling and Statistical Inference
23 Qs
Regression and Simultaneous Equations
21 Qs
Consumer Behaviour and Demand
15 Qs
Uncertainty, Information and Game Theory
15 Qs
National Income and Output Determination
14 Qs
Inflation, Expectations and Business Cycles
13 Qs
Mathematical Economics and Optimization
13 Qs
Money, Banking and Monetary Policy
12 Qs
Consumption and Investment
9 Qs
Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
8 Qs
General Equilibrium and Welfare
8 Qs
Trade Theory and Trade Policy
7 Qs
IS-LM and Open-economy Models
7 Qs
Taxation, Expenditure and Public Debt
7 Qs
Poverty, Inequality and Development Indicators
6 Qs
Poverty, Employment and Infrastructure
6 Qs
Development and Growth Theories
5 Qs
External Trade, Capital Flows and Exchange Policy
4 Qs
Monetary Policy, Public Finance and Federalism
4 Qs
Sectoral Growth and Structural Reforms
4 Qs
Fiscal Policy and Cost-benefit Analysis
3 Qs
International Economic Institutions
2 Qs
Market Failure and Public Goods
2 Qs
Social and Demographic Development
1 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Humanities & Social Sciences - Economics (XH-C1) 2026
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2025
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2024
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2023
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2022
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2021
40 Qs

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Microeconomics

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64 questions6 papers6 years

Statistics, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics

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57 questions6 papers6 years

Macroeconomics

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55 questions6 papers6 years

Indian Economy

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18 questions6 papers6 years

International Economics

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17 questions6 papers6 years

Development Economics

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12 questions6 papers6 years

Public Economics

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12 questions6 papers6 years

Included previous year papers

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Humanities & Social Sciences - Economics (XH-C1) 20262026
39 questions in this view		2026
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 20252025
39 questions in this view		2025
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 20242024
39 questions in this view		2024
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 20232023
39 questions in this view		2023
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 20222022
39 questions in this view		2022
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 20212021
40 questions in this view		2021
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2021 · Economics · Microeconomics · Consumer Behaviour and Demand
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2021
A firm finds that for the product that it produces, its (own) price elasticity of demand is 4. Currently, the firm is selling 2000 units per month at ₹ 5 per unit. If it wishes to increase its sales by 10%, it must
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2022 · Economics · Microeconomics · Production, Costs and Market Structures
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2022
Suppose that a firm has a technology represented by the following production function:
\[ Y(K, L) = K^x L^y \]
where \( K \) denotes capital, \( L \) denotes labour, \( Y \) denotes the maximum output that is possible to produce using capital \( K \) and labour \( L \). \( x \) and \( y \) are two positive real numbers. It is also known that the production function satisfies constant returns to scale. Then which of the following is true?
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2023 · Economics · Microeconomics · Consumer Behaviour and Demand
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2023
An individual is endowed with income of Rs. 142 and has the utility function \( U(x_1, x_2) = x_2(x_1 + 1) \), where \( x_1 \geq 0, x_2 \geq 0 \). The unit price of \( x_1 \) is Rs. 2 and the unit price of \( x_2 \) is Rs. 3. The utility maximizing bundle is
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2024 · Economics · Macroeconomics · Inflation, Expectations and Business Cycles
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2024

Which one of the following measures in the Keynesian framework is adopted to tame inflation in an economy?

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2025 · Economics · Microeconomics · General Equilibrium and Welfare
Humanities & Social Sciences-Economics (XH-C1) 2025

In the context of a perfectly competitive market, identify the statement that is NOT CORRECT.

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2026 · Economics · Statistics, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics · Mathematical Economics and Optimization
Humanities & Social Sciences - Economics (XH-C1) 2026
A is an \( n \times n \) matrix. Consider the following two statements
Statement 1: Columns of matrix A are linearly independent
Statement 2: Inverse of matrix A exists
Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
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