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Q1:

2025: 31 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Select the INCORRECT feature of the market with respect to perfect competition.

  1. The market consists of a large number of buyers and sellers.
  2. Entry into the market as well as exit from the market are free for firms.
  3. Buyers are price makers.
  4. There is perfect knowledge.
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Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 31 May Shift 1 ECO question 1

Q2:

2025: 30 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Arrange the stages of price determination in a perfect competition market:

(A) Estimate the market demand and supply.

(B) Firms adjust production to maximize profit.

(C) Equilibrium price is established.

(D) Short-run profit attracts new firms.

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Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 30 May Shift 1 ECO question 2

Q3:

2025: 30 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Which of the following are features of a perfect competitive market?

(A) Free entry and exit of firms.

(B) Huge selling cost.

(C) perfectly elastic demand curve.

(D) perfect market knowledge among buyers.

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Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 30 May Shift 1 ECO question 3

Q4:

2025: 30 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Match List-I with List-II

List-IList-II
(A) Control Price(I) Set below the equilibrium price
(B) Floor Price(II) Fixed by the government for the labourers
(C) Minimum Wage Legislation(III) Set above the equilibrium price
(D) Market Equilibrium(IV) when demand and supply curve intersect.

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Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 30 May Shift 1 ECO question 4

Q5:

2025: 29 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Medium

Identify the incorrect option from the following related to a perfectly competitive market.

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Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 29 May Shift 2 ECO question 5

Q6:

2025: 29 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Medium

In a perfectly competitive market choose the correct statement from the following.

(A) Equilibrium occurs where market demand equals market supply.

(B) Each firm employs labour upto the point where the marginal revenue of labour equals the wage rate.

(C) Equilibrium price and quantity are determined when there is large number of firms.

(D) Equilibrium price is always equal to minimum average cost of the firms.

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Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 29 May Shift 2 ECO question 6

Q7:

2025: 29 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Easy

The demand curve that a firm faces in a perfectly competitive market is...........

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Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 29 May Shift 2 ECO question 7

Q8:

2025: 29 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Which of the following are features of the perfect competition market?

(A) Price taking behavior of firms.

(B) Restriction on entry and exit of firms.

(C) Large number of sellers and buyers.

(D) Asymmetric Information.

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Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 29 May Shift 1 ECO question 8

Q9:

2025: 29 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Match List-I with List-II

List-IList-II
(A) Perfect Competition(I) No change in equilibrium price
(B) Increase in Demand= Decrease in Supply(II) Price taking Behavior
(C) Increase in Demand > Decrease in Supply(III) Decrease in equilibrium price
(D) Increase in Supply > Decrease in Demand(IV) Increase in equilibrium price

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Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 29 May Shift 1 ECO question 9

Q10:

2025: 29 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Arrange the following steps of Market Equilibrium under perfect competition in the correct order.

(A) Excess of market demand over market supply will cause excess demand situation.

(B) Quantity demanded will fall and quantity supplied will rise.

(C) The market will move towards the point where the quantity that the firm wants to sell is equal to the quantity that the consumer wants to buy.

(D) The market price would tend to increase, due to competition among buyers.

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Q11:

2025: 28 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Easy

The existence of a large number of buyers and sellers in the perfectly competitive market means?

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Q12:

2025: 28 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Easy

When Government fix the minimum price of any commodity this move of government is known by:

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Q13:

2025: 28 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Arrange the following money supply measures in chronological order.

(A) Excess supply will prevail in the economy.

(B) The tendency of prices to change to restore equilibrium.

(C) Suppose market supply is greater than market demand at a given price.

(D) Hence, the market is not in equilibrium.

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Q14:

2025: 28 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Match List-I with List-II

List-IList-II
(A) Upper limit on price of goods & services(I) Leads to excess supply.
(B) Free entry and exit(II) Equilibrium price = min AC of the firms.
(C) Marginal revenue product of labor (MRP_L)(III) Leads to excess demand.
(D) Lower limit on price of goods & services(IV) MR x MP_L.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

  1. (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)
  2. (A) - (III), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (I)
  3. (A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)
  4. (A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)
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Q15:

2025: 28 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

What would be the equilibrium number of firms in a market of identical firms, when market demand function (Qd)(Q_d), supply function of a single firm (Qs1)(Q_s1) and equilibrium price (P) are given as

Qd=180−2PQ_d = 180 - 2P

Qs1=15+PQ_{s1} = 15 + P

P=15P = 15

  1. 5
  2. 6
  3. 8
  4. 9
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Q16:

2025: 27 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Easy

For a price-taking firm, the market price is equal to marginal revenue and ......

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Q17:

2025: 27 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Easy

In a perfectly competitive market, a firm produces and sells a certain amount of goods. Among the following what reflect the firm's profit?

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Q18:

2025: 27 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Easy

Public goods, as distinct from private goods, are collectively consumed. Two important features of public goods are:

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Q20:

2025: 26 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Medium

In a particular country, there was a severe heatwave. Arrange the following in the sequence of order in context of the market of ice-creams.

(A) Rise in the price of ice cream.

(B) Supply will remain the same.

(C) Competition among the buyers of ice cream inceaseees.

(D) The demand for ice cream increases.

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Q21:

2025: 26 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Medium

The total revenue of a firm is increasing at a constant rate. Which of the following is true about this firm?

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Q22:

2025: 22 May Shift 2

Forms of Market

Easy

The government-imposed lower limit on the price that may be charged for a particular good or service. What this lower limit is called ?

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Q23:

2025: 22 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Perfect information implies that all buyers and all sellers are completely informed about the price, quality and other relevant details about the product, as well as the market. These features result in the single most distinguishing characteristic of perfect competition, that is...

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Q24:

2025: 22 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Arrange a statement of market equilibrium when the demand curve shifts leftward:

(A). The shift indicates that at any price the quantity demanded is less than before.

(B). Some firms will reduce the price of their commodity so that they can sell their desired quantity.

(C). Excess supply will arise.

(D). At the new equilibrium, quantity and price will be less than before.

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Q25:

2025: 22 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Let us consider the example of a market consisting of identical farms producing the same quality of wheat. Suppose the market demand curve and the market supply curve for wheat are given by: qᵈ = 200 - p and qˢ = 120 + p. What is the equilibrium price?

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Q26:

2025: 21 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Easy

In perfectly competitive market, the demand curve of a firm is?

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Q27:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Which of the following is NOT a condition for profit maximization of a perfectly competitive firm in the short run?

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Q28:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Identify the correct sequence due to which firms under perfect competition earn normal profits in the long run.

(A) The firms are earning less than normal profit at the prevailing price.

(B) The profits of each firm will increase to the level of normal profit.

(C) No more firm will want to leave, since they will be earning normal profit here.

(D) Some firms will exit, which will lead to an increase in price.

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Q29:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Suppose the Income of consumers in a market increase. How will this effect the equilibrium price of the commodity, assuming that it is a normal good?

(A) There is excess demand at the existing price.

(B) Rising price leads to contraction in demand and expansion in supply and a new equilibrium price is attained, which is higher than the initial price.

(C) The demand curve shifts rightward.

(D) There is upward pressure on the price and price starts rising.

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Q30:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

Forms of Market

Medium

Match List-I with List-II

List-IList-II
(A) Excess demand(I) Supernormal profits
(B) Excess supply(II) Perfect competition
(C) Entry of new firms in the market(III) Price tends to fall
(D) Price taker(IV) Price tends to rise

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