The Economics A-Level thread

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Original post by Kosovaa

We have some dodgy teachers in our school :frown:

My teacher is THE WORST.

I'm literally self teaching myself the entire subject

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Reply 3

stevepork

Speak to the faculty staff.... Solved my issue! Although they do host workshops after classes and through 1-2pm. Maybe a suggestion?

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Reply 4

OP

Bump

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gr8wizard10

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I am also too self-teaching myself A2, I got A at AS. My teacher's cant explain fml. I'm struggling with Labour/Wage graph though, I seem not to understand how to show a monopoly which can charge at lower wage, with lower output, because I dont understand the MRP / Labour Supply with MC and it just confuses me to the max

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OP

Original post by Abdul-Karim

I am also too self-teaching myself A2, I got A at AS. My teacher's cant explain fml. I'm struggling with Labour/Wage graph though, I seem not to understand how to show a monopoly which can charge at lower wage, with lower output, because I dont understand the MRP / Labour Supply with MC and it just confuses me to the max

What board are you?

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Reply 7

The.Joker

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Check out pajholden on youtube, he makes alevel econ videos- he explains concepts/diagrams really well. :smile:

Reply 8

mikele

http://www.dbseconomics.blogspot.ae/

My teacher runs this, doesn't normally help with theoretical parts of the course but it is great at giving examples that are relevant and helps with answering the non-multiple choice questions. Great for AO2, plus it goes back to 2009 so just type in 'Monopoly' for e.g. and it comes up with a bunch of stuff. Also check out the tutor2you(?) blog, which helped me massively last year for theory in unit 2 :smile:

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mk2212

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I'm doing AQA AS economics, but if you buy the revision guide on Amazon (for about £9 for all exam boards) it explains itself really well and great for self teaching!

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gr8wizard10

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Original post by Olympiad

What board are you?

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AQA

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Incredimazing

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Opportunity cost m8

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Reply 12

Boy_wonder_95

Original post by Olympiad

We don't have one so I thought I'd make one.

We can post any questions/etc we have.

I'm currently doing AS on Edexcel :smile:

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Hey, just noticed this thread, currently doing A2 Economics also under Edexcel :smile:

, did alright at AS so I'd be happy to help out.

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Reply 13

NikolaT

How are my fellow A level Economists faring so far into the year? How much (or how little!) revision has everyone done so far?

I'm currently studying for AS with AQA. Here's a post I posted in the main sub-forum, hope it's useful:

Original post by NikolaT

Whilst I haven't gotten my A in AS yet ( :crossedf:

) these resources have helped me so far:

Tutor2u is an invaluable source for anything - revision notes, presentations, real life examples, etc.

EconomicsHelp similarly has fantastic articles.

Reading BBC News -> Business -> Economy regularly (for me, everyday) is probably a must at both AS and A2 - it helps put macro as well as some micro into context, and can provide relevant real world data to use.

Anyone else have any tips?

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OP

Original post by Boy_wonder_95

Hey, just noticed this thread, currently doing A2 Economics also under Edexcel :smile:

, did alright at AS so I'd be happy to help out.

Sorry just read your reply!
Thank you :smile:

Do you have any typed resources by any chance? I'm literally self teaching and it's not going well :frown:

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OP

Original post by NikolaT

How are my fellow A level Economists faring so far into the year? How much (or how little!) revision has everyone done so far?

I'm currently studying for AS with AQA. Here's a post I posted in the main sub-forum, hope it's useful:

Brilliant! Thankd

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NikolaT

Original post by Olympiad

Brilliant! Thankd

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Heh, and I thought being a classicist-economist made me unique. :tongue:

Still taking Greek, right? Or am I mis-remembering?

Are you actually self-teaching or virtually, due to bad teacher(s)?

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OP

Original post by NikolaT

Heh, and I thought being a classicist-economist made me unique. :tongue:

Still taking Greek, right? Or am I mis-remembering?

Are you actually self-teaching or virtually, due to bad teacher(s)?

hehe! Yup, still taking Greek!
Not taking Classics though :frown:

I decided I really regretted not taking History at GCSE and wanted to for AS.
Taking: Politics, ICT, Economics & History

Virtually, due to bad teachers. - but bad as in REALLY REALLY bad. She doesn't teach / just talks about Kidneys :|

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NikolaT