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Economics AQA old specification past papers.

Hi guys, as you know, the AQA website has changes, and on the old layout, I could find old specification question papers for economics, which I found very useful, but now, the layout has changes and I could not find them, or even on the internet. So any link to where I could find them would be appreciated. Thanks, + rep too :smile:

Reply 1

I don't think they are available on the AQA website, you'll have to do some serious digging on the internet.

I found them really usful too, I did Unit 1 in January 2013 and about half the questions were old spec multiple choice.

Reply 2

Original post by Homeboy Hotel
I don't think they are available on the AQA website, you'll have to do some serious digging on the internet.

I found them really usful too, I did Unit 1 in January 2013 and about half the questions were old spec multiple choice.


They were super useful, did you find any?

Reply 3

Original post by Hi, How are you ?
They were super useful, did you find any?



You can easily find them on the "freeexampapers" website

Reply 4

Original post by Homeboy Hotel
I don't think they are available on the AQA website, you'll have to do some serious digging on the internet.

I found them really usful too, I did Unit 1 in January 2013 and about half the questions were old spec multiple choice.


How many multiple choices did you do?! Haha, I have the AS coming up in a couple of days.

Reply 5

Original post by SimpleTom
How many multiple choices did you do?! Haha, I have the AS coming up in a couple of days.


On old spec, there was only like 10-15 multiple choice questions compared to the current spec of 25, and about 5 papers. It took me about 10mins to rattle through them so it was good practice haha

Reply 6

Original post by Homeboy Hotel
On old spec, there was only like 10-15 multiple choice questions compared to the current spec of 25, and about 5 papers. It took me about 10mins to rattle through them so it was good practice haha


Haha cheers for that, will spend some time doing that tomorrow! Did you do the same for Unit 2?

Reply 7

Original post by SimpleTom
Haha cheers for that, will spend some time doing that tomorrow! Did you do the same for Unit 2?


Nah. I struggled more with Unit 1 and looked at old spec questions for my retake for January only.

But my mate who originally smashed the summer exam last year did do all the old spec questions and got an A.

So I would recommend it. I treated all the MCQ like my driving theory test, all the ones I got wrong I noted down and did them over and over again till I literally remembered the answer before I even read half the question -its surprisingly helpful when AQA are lazy and just copy questions from previous exams. :wink:

Reply 8

i practiced the may 2012 paper on friday. question 19 on the unit 1 multiple choice fair bamboozled me, i must say. only understood what on earth they were asking after pondering over the answers paper for a long time.

Reply 9

Hi,

Yeah I recommend doing all past paper MCQs atleast twice through. They regularly repeat themselves and if you can get a high mark in section A (mcqs) it will really help with section B.

Also by doing all questions it will help with allow you to become more quicker with them :smile: Hope this helped

Reply 10

Damn 1 week away!!

Reply 11

i practiced the may 2012 paper on friday. question 19 on the unit 1 multiple choice fair bamboozled me, i must say. only understood what on earth they were asking after pondering over the answers paper for a long time.


At £9 there is 6 demanded, 9 supplied. So a surplus stock of 3.

Government has to pay the minimum price, so £9 x 3 = 36. D. Boom.

Reply 12

Original post by Homeboy Hotel
At £9 there is 6 demanded, 9 supplied. So a surplus stock of 3.

Government has to pay the minimum price, so £9 x 3 = 36. D. Boom.


Yeah - the question didn't explicitly say that govt would buy any excess supply, that's what got me. Of course a govt could impose a minimum price without buying the excess, a bit like the alcohol minimum price we sometimes hear about.

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Reply 13

Original post by Homeboy Hotel
I don't think they are available on the AQA website, you'll have to do some serious digging on the internet.

I found them really usful too, I did Unit 1 in January 2013 and about half the questions were old spec multiple choice.


None of June 13 was old questions! :frown:

Everyone found the MC pretty horrible, DRQ was easy though.

Reply 14

Original post by Hi, How are you ?
Hi guys, as you know, the AQA website has changes, and on the old layout, I could find old specification question papers for economics, which I found very useful, but now, the layout has changes and I could not find them, or even on the internet. So any link to where I could find them would be appreciated. Thanks, + rep too :smile:

https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/past-papers/a-level-economics/aqa-unit-1/
https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/past-papers/a-level-economics/aqa-unit-2/
https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/past-papers/a-level-economics/aqa-unit-3/
https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/past-papers/a-level-economics/aqa-unit-4/

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