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Economics GCSE

I'm teaching myself multiple GCSEs this year, economics being one of them. I need to begin learning but I haven't even picked an exam board yet.

If anyone has done or is doing economics gcse please can you let me know what exam. board and how you're finding it? Or any resources I can use?

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I studied OCR Gcse Economics last year, which may be a more unconventional choice but that's just what my school chose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. This is the page for signing up for the J205 course, and where you can also find the specification of what you'll be studying.
I (just barely) got a 9 in the subject, even though I'm not the best at essay subjects. 25% of the marks come from MC, and the test has 3 case study questions, which each follow the pattern of 2 x 2 mark qs, 1 x 6 mark analysis q, 2 x 2 mark qs, 1 x 6 mark evaluate q (generally the hardest q part). Past papers can be found on Save My Exams (unfortunately it doesn't have course content on there only past papers).
There is a website (Mr Goff) which details the course content, but it doesn't cover it in its entirety. One of my classmates got a pdf of a full revision guide that covers the content better than the available textbook. It's not online anymore, but you're interested I can send a Google Drive link on your private messages. I've saved some revision notes I had if I can find them. Hope this helps!
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