OCR A2 Economics Unit F585 Feb 2011

The only thing I don't think I did properly in the last question was arguing my points because I focused on benefits like it said. Obviously I went and said HOWEVER blah blah bad blah blah. If only it had been the drawbacks, I would have aced that last question.

I think boundaries will be same as last year. Most of the people in my year loved the paper and there's over a hundred of us XD

Hope everyone did well. I'm personally only looking for a B in this paper.

I doubt it, not many found it difficult in my school. :/

nutters. roll on march 10th. for the last question it was pretty much a case of thinking of nearly everything i could and throwing it in there. for the second comment on question what did you all put? i said some stuff about they'll have to raise interest rates to make investors buy the debt, and then if overseas investors buy it money is leaving the country.

1)opportunity cost of paying the interest on the debt = forgone development spending.

2) high debt = low confidence in the economy (think UK)

3) is the debt high because the government have been wasting the money or is it high because they have been borrowing for investment in education which is pro-developmental.

Oh great, all your lots answers are different from mine. mine are just simple, stupid answers. :/ Ugh, resit. i'm looking for eco tuition, does anyone know nay?

what grade you aiming for? You can still get a fair share of the marks without going into the real detailed stuff.

what diagram did you/people put for the why are prices volatile question?

what diagram did you/people put for the why are prices volatile question?

what grade you aiming for? You can still get a fair share of the marks without going into the real detailed stuff.

what diagram did you/people put for the why are prices volatile question?

My teacher reckons an A would be something around 48, boundaries were low last year due to it being a new exam or something. If it is around 40 for an A though, I'd love that

My teacher reckons an A would be something around 48, boundaries were low last year due to it being a new exam or something. If it is around 40 for an A though, I'd love that

damn it. 30 marks is an E right?

1c was certainly the hardest question in that paper relative to marks. I've no idea what to write for it, in comment questions I'm usually used to stating one fact, then countering that in the next section - I explained how the tariff diagram worked and gave good analysis on everything to do with it, but then I just looked at my paper and thought what now? What on earth was the counter-argument/next section of this question? Eventually I just talked about how EU consumers pay the higher price inevitably....

But should get 4/5 marks out of 10 at least for my analysis of the tariff diagram and impact it has on all concerned.

Also anyone who didn't thoroughly revise integration going into that exam was an idiot, it was a very likely 20 mark question due to the large range of discussion and stimulus material involved with it - I went in fully expecting it to come up...

what grade you aiming for? You can still get a fair share of the marks without going into the real detailed stuff.

what diagram did you/people put for the why are prices volatile question?

i did a supply demand diagram with supply vertical bcause in the sort term its elastic and demand steeply sloping. this leads to large swings in the price if supply shifts. #
i thought it was an alright paper, not the highest level of hard but not totally easy either. what did everyone put for 'analyse/comment on the case for the EU giving preferential access to ACP states' didnt really understand what they were asking to be honest

I said that export is what ACP states depend on highly therefore this will imporve trade current account balance and that will lead to more confidence and others may invest i . e fdi