A-Level Economics topics tutors can cover
A-Level Economics is usually organised around microeconomics and macroeconomics. AQA describes major content areas as individuals, firms, markets and market failure, plus the national and international economy. Pearson Edexcel Economics A uses four themes, moving from markets and the UK economy to business behaviour, labour markets and the global economy.
A tutor can help turn those specification headings into practical lesson priorities: definitions, diagrams, written explanations, real-world application, data analysis and evaluation.
- Microeconomics: scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand, price determination, elasticities, market failure, government intervention and market structures.
- Macroeconomics: growth, inflation, unemployment, aggregate demand and supply, fiscal policy, monetary policy, exchange rates and international trade.
- Quantitative skills: interpreting tables and charts, percentages, index numbers, elasticity calculations and using data in written answers.
- Exam skills: selecting evidence, drawing diagrams accurately, explaining chains of reasoning and making evaluative judgements.
- Markets and micro
- Demand, supply, price, elasticity, market failure, firms, competition, labour markets and government intervention.
- Macro and policy
- Economic growth, inflation, unemployment, fiscal policy, monetary policy, trade, exchange rates and global links.
- Data and quantitative work
- Tables, charts, indices, percentages, diagrams and using figures accurately in exam answers.
- Evaluation
- Weighing strengths, limits, assumptions, stakeholder effects and short-run versus long-run consequences.