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Market Failure and Government Intervention - Head Start activity

Level:: A-Level

Board:: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR, WJEC

Last updated 3 Apr 2020

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In this Head Start knowledge retrieval activity you are pitted against one of our 5 brain-box quizzers who are also answering the same question. You must remain at least one correct answer ahead of the quizzer and to give you a chance, you have been given a two-question head start.

In each question you are given a key phrase and a definition. Your task is to simply state whether they match. Keep going until you caught!

This activity uses over 50 key phrases from the topic of Market Failure and Government Intervention.

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