[ugk4life]

can we be safe in assuming that there will be a question in section a on development?

[Victor-PP]

I'm taking this! Probably one of the hardest A level papers, wouldn't you agree?

[crazy1234]

(Original post by Victor-PP)
I'm taking this! Probably one of the hardest A level papers, wouldn't you agree?

Balanced out with fairly low grade boundaries though

[Aadil]

(Original post by ugk4life)
can we be safe in assuming that there will be a question in section a on development?

Yeh for definite, there will always be a 20 and 30marker on development? There really is only three big topics they can ask about

[ugk4life]

(Original post by Aadil)
Yeh for definite, there will always be a 20 and 30marker on development? There really is only three big topics they can ask about

are you asking me or telling me? lol

which three?

[ugk4life]

(Original post by Aadil)
Yeh for definite, there will always be a 20 and 30marker on development? There really is only three big topics they can ask about

are you asking me or telling me? lol

which three??

[Aadil]

(Original post by ugk4life)
are you asking me or telling me? lol

which three??

Telling you, my bad. Hmm well to be honest I reckon its always on Development, Trade (International Economy) is always there and Government Policies / Macroeconomic indicators is always there. Massive bracket but since Development is long but easy you could revise thoroughly for one and less so for Trade since that is long but i don't think most people will chance it including me

[ugk4life]

(Original post by Aadil)
Telling you, my bad. Hmm well to be honest I reckon its always on Development, Trade (International Economy) is always there and Government Policies / Macroeconomic indicators is always there. Massive bracket but since Development is long but easy you could revise thoroughly for one and less so for Trade since that is long but i don't think most people will chance it including me

ok cool thanks

[stefl14]

I'm wondering whether to just do the macro as I hate development - not that it's hard I just detest it because you have to come up with case studies and examples whereas for macro and trade you can be a lot more technical without too much additional knowledge. Surely the setting of the paper will allow you to almost completely avoid development and instead do macro or vice versa. Anyone know?

[Yash13]

(Original post by stefl14)
I'm wondering whether to just do the macro as I hate development - not that it's hard I just detest it because you have to come up with case studies and examples whereas for macro and trade you can be a lot more technical without too much additional knowledge. Surely the setting of the paper will allow you to almost completely avoid development and instead do macro or vice versa. Anyone know?

I think for the essays you have the option of 3 questions and for data response you have two options. From what I have seen I believe you can avoid development questions. I hope you can anyway its ****ing boring, I prefer answering questions on developed and emerging economies. Lol.

[JayXVIII]

I'm actually ok on the time thing, it's the actual questions I mess up on. I guess I tend to waffle a lot and can't seem to properly develop my points to get the best marks for the essay. Any tips?

[PPF]

By the way let me tell you guys who dont know already that in the data-response every question has 2 marks for application meaning that you have to give one or two data references i.e. actual size of fiscal deficit, bop deficit etc.

btw why do you guys find development so hard? i think its the easiest as you can develop many strands and evaluation is easier, i hate evaluations like significance, prioritise etc devl has easier ones

[stefl14]

(Original post by PPF)
By the way let me tell you guys who dont know already that in the data-response every question has 2 marks for application meaning that you have to give one or two data references i.e. actual size of fiscal deficit, bop deficit etc.

btw why do you guys find development so hard? i think its the easiest as you can develop many strands and evaluation is easier, i hate evaluations like significance, prioritise etc devl has easier ones

Development is easy but a lot of it is subjective and what I call "wooly" lol. You have to learn case studies for it which is totally stupid as economics A level should be about understanding technical theory. I prefer to evaluate macro questions. It's easy to delve into discussion about elasticity, size of multiplier effects etc.

[nakz_]

I'm taking this exam as an external student so havent been taught it in 1 year. Does anyone have the list of major topics in this Unit?

[Yash13]

(Original post by stefl14)
Development is easy but a lot of it is subjective and what I call "wooly" lol. You have to learn case studies for it which is totally stupid as economics A level should be about understanding technical theory. I prefer to evaluate macro questions. It's easy to delve into discussion about elasticity, size of multiplier effects etc.

This is exactly my thought process.

[ms93]

(Original post by ezioaudi77)
Does you have any model answers for unit 4 (other than the examiners reports)?

Those little Philip Allan revision guides have model answers in the back done by students and what they got with examiner commentary!

[ezioaudi77]

(Original post by ms93)
Those little Philip Allan revision guides have model answers in the back done by students and what they got with examiner commentary!

Problem is, I don't have access to it If it's not too much trouble, could you scan some and upload them?

[ms93]

(Original post by ezioaudi77)
Problem is, I don't have access to it If it's not too much trouble, could you scan some and upload them?

Yeah I'm going to scan them sometime within the coming week for a friend, so I shall upload them then

[ezioaudi77]

(Original post by ms93)
Yeah I'm going to scan them sometime within the coming week for a friend, so I shall upload them then

Thanks, hope you upload them soon

[iheartliam]

oooh dear. so eurozone will probably definitely come up right? do you think it's worth revising austerity measures and reasons for why it can and can't work? Because we're not specifically taught it but it's pretty current...and it's been going on for a while...how far back are exams even written for?