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A Level Economics Tutoring

Write sharper essays and draw better diagrams. Our expert tutors help you think like an economist and score higher.

Whether you're working through supply and demand in Year 12, tackling monetary policy and market failure in Year 13, or building essay technique for 25-mark questions, our tutors provide structured support tailored to your exam board and goals.

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What You Get with A Level Economics Tutoring

Comprehensive support designed to help you achieve your target grade

Exam Mastery

  • 25-mark essay structure: clear argument, chain of reasoning, evaluation
  • Data response technique for Papers 1 and 2
  • Synoptic Paper 3 strategy - connecting micro and macro topics
  • Past paper practice with mark scheme analysis and examiner tips

Diagram Technique

  • Supply and demand diagrams: shifts, movements, elasticity
  • AD/AS, Phillips curve, Lorenz curve, trade diagrams drawn correctly
  • Diagram annotation that earns full marks in exam conditions
  • Applying diagrams to evaluate policy arguments

Concept Building

  • Micro: market structures, market failure, government intervention
  • Macro: AD/AS model, monetary and fiscal policy, international trade
  • Development economics, exchange rates, and the balance of payments
  • Regular progress tracking and personalised study plans
Real student results

Students Improving Their Economics Grades

C → A
"My 25-mark essays were getting 12–14 marks. My tutor showed me how to build a chain of reasoning and properly evaluate. I started getting 20+ consistently."
Z

Zara H.

A Level Economics, AQA, Summer 2024

B → A*
"Monetary policy and the AD/AS model felt really abstract until my tutor connected them to real news stories. It made revision so much more engaging."
L

Leo T.

A Level Economics, Edexcel, Summer 2024

D → C
"I didn't understand what made a good economics diagram until my tutor showed me side-by-side what examiners award marks for. Such a simple fix."
J

Jasmine W.

A Level Economics, OCR, Summer 2023

How It Works

Simple steps to get started with A Level Economics tutoring

1

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Choose 3 to 100 hours based on your needs. Split across subjects if needed.

2

Complete Onboarding

Tell us your exam board, year group, weak areas, goals, and scheduling preferences.

3

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AS Level vs Full A Level: What's the Difference?

We support students at both stages - here's how they compare

Area
AS Level (Year 12)
A Level (Year 12–13)
Content Covered
Basic micro (supply/demand, elasticity, market structures), basic macro (GDP, inflation, unemployment)
Market failure, government intervention, monetary & fiscal policy, globalisation, development economics
Qualification
Standalone AS Level qualification
Completes the full A Level across Year 12 + Year 13
Papers
2 papers - micro and macro data response and essays
3 papers - including synoptic Paper 3 connecting micro and macro
Essay Depth
Structured point-explain-example responses
Full 25-mark essays with sustained argument, evaluation, and balance
Evaluation Skills
Basic pros/cons analysis
Nuanced evaluation: short vs long run, assumptions, real-world effectiveness

A Level Economics Syllabus Coverage

Our tutors are experienced with all major A Level Economics exam boards - AQA, OCR, Edexcel, and Cambridge. Whether you're struggling with oligopoly pricing or the multiplier effect, we provide targeted support exactly where you need it.

1
Microeconomics: Markets

  • Demand and supply: determinants, shifts, movements
  • Price elasticity, income elasticity, cross elasticity
  • Consumer and producer surplus
  • Price mechanism and market equilibrium
  • +1 more

2
Microeconomics: Market Structures

  • Perfect competition and allocative efficiency
  • Monopoly: supernormal profit, barriers to entry, deadweight loss
  • Oligopoly: collusion, price wars, game theory
  • Monopsony: labour market power
  • +1 more

3
Market Failure & Government Intervention

  • Externalities: negative and positive, optimal output diagrams
  • Public goods: non-excludable, non-rival
  • Information failure and asymmetric information
  • Government responses: taxation, subsidies, regulation, price controls
  • +1 more

4
Macroeconomics

  • GDP, economic growth, and the business cycle
  • Unemployment: types, causes, natural rate
  • Inflation: demand-pull, cost-push, CPI vs RPI
  • Aggregate demand and aggregate supply (AD/AS model)
  • +1 more

5
Monetary & Fiscal Policy

  • Monetary policy: interest rates, quantitative easing, money supply
  • Fiscal policy: government spending, taxation, budget deficits/surpluses
  • Supply-side policies: privatisation, deregulation, education and training
  • Policy conflicts: inflation vs unemployment (Phillips curve)
  • +1 more

6
International Trade & Development

  • Comparative and absolute advantage
  • Protectionism: tariffs, quotas, subsidies, exchange rate manipulation
  • Exchange rates: factors affecting them, impacts on the economy
  • Balance of payments: current account, capital account
  • +1 more
Assessment breakdown

A Level Economics Assessment Structure

Understand exactly how you'll be assessed and prepare strategically for each component

Exam boards covered:AQAOCREdexcelCambridge

Paper 1 - Markets and Market Failure

Written Exam
Weighting
33%

Microeconomics: markets, elasticity, market structures, and market failure

2 hours
Section A: Data response (compulsory) | Section B: Choice of 1 from 3 essays (25 marks each)
Supply and demand, elasticity, market structures (perfect competition to monopoly), market failure, government intervention

Paper 2 - National and International Economy

Written Exam
Weighting
33%

Macroeconomics: GDP, inflation, unemployment, policy, and international trade

2 hours
Section A: Data response (compulsory) | Section B: Choice of 1 from 3 essays (25 marks each)
Macroeconomic objectives, AD/AS model, monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rates, balance of payments, development

Paper 3 - Economic Principles and Issues

Written Exam
Weighting
33%

Synoptic paper testing the ability to apply micro and macro principles to unseen data and contexts

2 hours
Two compulsory data response questions drawing on micro and macro themes
Synoptic - any micro or macro topic from Papers 1 and 2 applied to unfamiliar real-world contexts

Grade Boundaries (Summer 2024)

Grade
Min. %
A*
74%+
A
58%+
B
48%+
C
38%+
D
28%+
E
18%+

Grade boundaries shift each session. These are indicative based on recent exam-board data.

Key Assessment Notes

  • All three papers are sat at the end of Year 13 - A Level Economics is linear (not modular)
  • There is no coursework or NEA - your grade is entirely exam-based
  • 25-mark essays require a clear argument, sustained evaluation, and diagram use - practise these specifically
  • Grade boundaries shift each year based on overall cohort performance

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