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Key Facts: SSLC Economics Exam

3 hours + 10 min

Official 2025 paper duration including reading time

Official 2025 SSLC Economics booklet (MEC)

30 / 30 / 40

Official 2025 strand marks

Official 2025 SSLC Economics booklet (MEC)

9–19 Nov 2026

2026 national secondary examination window

MEC 2026 National Secondary Examinations Timetable announcement

100

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Samoa SSLC Economics is a 3-hour-plus-10-minute national written paper marked out of 100. The 2026 national secondary window is 9–19 November. This free bank supplies 100 multiple-choice revision questions weighted 30 / 30 / 40 to the official 2025 strands.

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1What is the basic economic problem that forces every society, including small island developing states such as Samoa, to make production choices?

A.Scarcity of resources relative to unlimited wants

B.A permanent shortage of foreign tourists

C.The legal requirement to use only imported capital goods

D.A government rule that every village must grow the same crop

Explanation: The basic economic problem is scarcity: land, labour, capital and enterprise are limited, while wants are unlimited. Scarcity forces choices about what, how and for whom to produce. Being a small island economy changes the resource mix, but it does not replace scarcity as the fundamental problem.

2Which list correctly names the four factors of production?

A.Wages, rent, interest and profit

B.Land, labour, capital and enterprise

C.Households, firms, government and overseas

D.Primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary

Explanation: The four factors of production are land (natural resources), labour (human effort), capital (produced means of production) and enterprise (the organising and risk-taking factor). Payments to those factors — rent, wages, interest and profit — are factor incomes, not the factors themselves.

3A family on Savai'i uses a coastal plot to grow taro and collect coconuts. In economics, that plot is best classified as which factor of production?

A.Labour, because family members work the plot

B.Capital, because the land can be sold for tālā

C.Land, because it is a natural resource used in production

D.Enterprise, because the family decides what to plant

Explanation: Land is the factor that covers natural resources used in production: soil, climate, lagoon access, minerals and similar gifts of nature. The Savai'i coastal plot is therefore land, even though labour, capital and enterprise are also used with it.

4A hotel in Apia pays room attendants a weekly wage to clean guest rooms. The attendants are an example of which factor of production?

A.Land

B.Capital

C.Enterprise

D.Labour

Explanation: Labour is human effort — physical or mental — used in production. Room attendants supply labour services and receive wages as the factor reward.

5Which of the following is a capital good rather than a consumer good?

A.A family refrigerator used only at home in Vaitele

B.A commercial freezer bought by a fish exporter in Apia

C.A pair of school shoes bought for a Year 12 student

D.A takeaway meal purchased at the Savalalo market

Explanation: A capital good is a produced item used to make other goods and services. The exporter’s commercial freezer is used in the production and storage of fish for sale, so it is capital. The other items satisfy household wants directly and are consumer goods.

6What is the role of enterprise as a factor of production?

A.To organise the other factors and bear the risk of production

B.To provide the natural resources on which production depends

C.To supply hours of paid work in return for a wage

D.To act as a produced machine that raises output automatically

Explanation: Enterprise (entrepreneurship) organises land, labour and capital, decides what to produce, and bears the uninsurable risk of the business. Its factor reward is profit (or loss).

7Harvesting taro, cutting copra and catching tuna for sale are all examples of production in which economic sector?

A.Secondary sector

B.Tertiary sector

C.Primary sector

D.Public-sector administration only

Explanation: The primary sector extracts or harvests natural resources: agriculture, fishing, forestry and mining. Taro, copra and tuna are primary products. Processing those products into oil or canned fish would be secondary; selling them in a shop would be tertiary.

8A small plant at Vaitele presses copra into coconut oil for export. This activity belongs to which sector?

A.Primary sector, because copra comes from coconut trees

B.Tertiary sector, because the oil will later be exported

C.Quaternary sector, because oil chemistry is involved

D.Secondary sector, because a raw material is being processed

Explanation: The secondary sector turns raw materials into processed goods. Pressing copra into oil is manufacturing/processing, so it is secondary. Growing the coconuts is primary; shipping or marketing the oil is tertiary.

9A beach fale on the south coast of Upolu that sells overnight stays and meals to visitors is mainly operating in which sector?

A.Tertiary sector

B.Primary sector

C.Secondary sector

D.Only the subsistence sector, because the fale is family-owned

Explanation: Tourism accommodation and meal service are services, so the beach fale is tertiary-sector production. Family ownership does not move the activity into subsistence if the stays and meals are sold in the market.

10In economics, opportunity cost is best defined as:

A.The money price paid for a good in the market

B.The value of the next-best alternative that is given up

C.The total of every possible alternative that could have been chosen

D.The accounting profit left after all bills are paid

Explanation: Opportunity cost is the value of the single next-best alternative forgone when a choice is made. It is not the market price itself, and it is not the sum of every unused option.

About the SSLC Economics Exam

SSLC Economics is the Year 12 national economics paper for the Samoa Secondary Leaving Certificate. The official 2025 booklet is a 3-hour-and-10-minute English written paper scored out of 100 marks across production, consumption and markets. This bank is an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation of those official strands, including genuine calculations. It is not a simulation of written diagrams or extended economic argument.

Assessment

Single English-language question-and-answer booklet. Time allowed: 3 hours and 10 minutes, including 10 minutes reading time. Official 2025 strands: Production 30, Consumption 30, Market 40.

Time Limit

3 hours plus 10 minutes reading time

Passing Score

Not published as a fixed percentage on official SSLC papers. Subject papers are marked out of 100.

Exam Fee

MEC publishes national SSLC examination fees (2025 and 2026 official notices). The SAT amount is not stated on the public examination-paper pages. (Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), Government of Samoa)

SSLC Economics Exam Content Outline

30 questions

Production

Factors of production, opportunity cost, productivity and Samoa’s productive sectors.

30 questions

Consumption

Households, demand, income and consumer choice.

40 questions

Market

Supply, price, market structures, market failure and applied market outcomes.

How to Pass the SSLC Economics Exam

What You Need to Know

Passing score: Not published as a fixed percentage on official SSLC papers. Subject papers are marked out of 100.
Assessment: Single English-language question-and-answer booklet. Time allowed: 3 hours and 10 minutes, including 10 minutes reading time. Official 2025 strands: Production 30, Consumption 30, Market 40.
Time limit: 3 hours plus 10 minutes reading time
Exam fee: MEC publishes national SSLC examination fees (2025 and 2026 official notices). The SAT amount is not stated on the public examination-paper pages.

Keys to Passing

Work through all 100 available questions
Review every answer and explanation
Track weak areas and revisit them
Use our AI tutor for tough concepts

SSLC Economics Study Tips from Top Performers

1Sketch demand and supply diagrams before choosing an option.

2Use SAT for money amounts and label axes clearly in your working.

3Learn opportunity cost as a decision, not a slogan.

4These MCQs do not replace written diagram and essay practice.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is SSLC Economics?

It is the Year 12 national economics paper for the Samoa Secondary Leaving Certificate, administered by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

How is the official paper structured?

The official 2025 booklet has three compulsory strands: Production (30 marks), Consumption (30 marks) and Market (40 marks).

Is this practice bank the same format as the real exam?

No. The official paper is a mixed written booklet. These 100 questions are an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation covering the same official strands.

In what language is the official paper set?

English. The official 2025 SSLC Economics booklet is an English-language paper.

When are the 2026 SSLC examinations?

MEC announced the 2026 national secondary examinations for 9–19 November 2026.

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