A-Level Economics Tutor & Online Tuition
Short answer
The A-Level Economics course is one-to-one tutoring, taught live online: every lesson is 90 minutes.
A private group is for 3 or more friends who sign up together (the group programme is 30 hours per subject); there are no published start dates, and we agree the start date and lesson times with you.
In one-to-one tutoring, packages are from €85 a lesson.
A-Level Economics tutoring for AQA 7136, Edexcel, OCR and Cambridge: markets and market failure, the national and international economy, data response.
One-to-one and small groups · Live online · AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Cambridge International specifications
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About the subject
A-Level Economics: what it covers and who it suits
A-Level Economics tutoring at TestPrep Europe follows the specification your school enters you for. On the AQA specification (7136) shown on this page, three 2-hour papers of 80 marks each carry a third of the A-Level: Paper 1 (Markets and market failure) and Paper 2 (National and international economy) each combine data-response questions with an essay, and Paper 3 (Economic principles and issues) combines multiple choice with a case study. For Edexcel, OCR or Cambridge International we plan around that board's own papers, with explicit attention throughout to diagrams, evaluation and extended-response technique.
Your lessons are taught by Cem Yıldırım, who teach A-Level Economics.
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Cambridge International specifications mapped paper by paper
- Diagram discipline drilled across micro and macro topics
- Data-response technique built around source-grounded answers
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A-Level Economics develops the analytical and quantitative tools for understanding markets, firms, government policy and the global economy. It is a strong foundation for university economics, business, finance and public-policy programmes — although it is not always required for an economics degree: LSE and Cambridge, for example, do not require A-Level Economics but do require A-Level Mathematics.
A-Level Economics on the AQA specification (7136) has two content sections: Individuals, firms, markets and market failure, which is mainly microeconomics, and The national and international economy, which is mainly macroeconomics. Paper 1 examines mainly the first, Paper 2 mainly the second, and Paper 3 draws on both. Other boards organise their content and papers differently. The course develops analytical writing, diagram-based reasoning and quantitative interpretation — skills that carry straight into first-year university economics. Our tutoring builds fluency with the standard diagrams, an evaluation-led essay technique and the habit of linking every topic to current events.
One-to-one A-Level Economics tutoring
Our one-to-one A-Level tutoring is built around your current grade, your target grade and the exam board you are sitting. Each lesson works on your weak topics, drills AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE past-paper questions and walks through mark schemes, so you know exactly how marks are awarded.
A private group for A-Level Economics
There is no open group timetable for this subject. If 3 or more of you sign up together, we open a private group course for you. The price per student depends on how many subjects you take, with 30 hours of live lessons in each: 1 subject (30 hours) €1,031, 2 subjects (60 hours) €1,927, 3 subjects (90 hours) €2,689 and 4 subjects (120 hours) €3,496. Each student buys their own place online, and we let you know as soon as your group is ready.
Exam
A-Level Economics exam format
Exam boards: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE
Paper 1: Markets and market failure (AQA 7136)
33.3%2 hours, 80 marks. 3.1 Individuals, firms, markets and market failure: data response on one of two contexts in Section A (40 marks) and one essay from three in Section B (40 marks).
Paper 2: National and international economy (AQA 7136)
33.3%2 hours, 80 marks. 3.2 The national and international economy: data response on one of two contexts in Section A (40 marks) and one essay from three in Section B (40 marks).
Paper 3: Economic principles and issues (AQA 7136)
33.3%2 hours, 80 marks. All of the content: multiple choice in Section A (30 marks) and a case study in Section B (50 marks).
One-to-one A-Level tutoring
A-Level Economics Private Tutoring
Private A-Level lessons planned around your exam board's specification, your current grade and the grade you are aiming for. Every lesson is live and online, with a tutor who teaches this subject.
- A lesson plan built around your exam board and target grade
- Past-paper questions worked through with the board's mark schemes
- Exam technique for each paper, from command words to timing
- Lesson times that fit around your school week
How it works
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Tell us your goal
We start from your school syllabus, your exam date and the result you are aiming for.
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Your own plan
We map out the lessons you need, unit by unit.
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Live one-to-one lessons
Meet your tutor online at times that suit your week.
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Regular progress checks
Homework and a short check after each lesson show how you are getting on.
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Right for you if you want a plan built around your exam board, flexible lesson times and a tutor's full attention.
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Practice built into your A-Level Economics lessons
Every topic you cover in A-Level Economics is reinforced with question sets your tutor puts together for you. This programme has no separately sold question bank or practice test.
Mock exams included in the programme- Targeted questions on every topic
- Practice sets built around your weak areas
- Exam-style practice with past papers and mark schemes
- Worked solutions and feedback on every question
Syllabus
A-Level Economics topics
Topic names are those of the AQA 7136 specification; other exam boards order and name them a little differently.
13.1 Individuals, firms, markets and market failure
- Economic methodology and the economic problem
- Individual economic decision making
- Price determination in a competitive market
- Production, costs and revenue
- Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly
- The labour market
- The distribution of income and wealth: poverty and inequality
- The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets
23.2 The national and international economy
- The measurement of macroeconomic performance
- How the macroeconomy works: the circular flow of income, aggregate demand/aggregate supply analysis and related concepts
- Economic performance
- Financial markets and monetary policy
- Fiscal policy and supply-side policies
- The international economy
Approach
How we teach A-Level Economics
Study plan
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Phase 1 — Micro 1
Markets and failures
- Demand, supply, elasticity
- Market failure and government intervention
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Phase 2 — Macro 1
AD/AS and policy
- AD/AS framework
- Inflation, unemployment, growth
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Phase 3 — Year 2 micro + macro
Firms, labour, global
- Theory of the firm
- Labour markets
- Global trade and development
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Phase 4 — Essays + data + mock
Paper technique
- Extended essay drills
- Data-response paper drills
- Full timed mock
How lessons work
Diagram discipline
Every micro and macro topic is taught through its labelled diagram, so students use diagrams to drive the analysis rather than to decorate it.
Evaluation as significance, not balance
Top-band evaluation weighs magnitude, time, assumptions and alternatives. We drill it as a structural skill rather than as 'mention both sides'.
Source-grounded data response
We drill the habit of citing source data inside the argument, not as a separate paragraph.
Advice
A-Level Economics: common mistakes and study tips
MistakeDiagrams without correct labels.
FixAxes, curves and equilibria must be fully labelled; an unlabelled or mislabelled diagram does little to support the analysis, even when the written answer is otherwise correct.
MistakeEvaluation treated as 'on the other hand'.
FixTop-band evaluation weighs significance — magnitude, time, assumptions, alternatives — not just opposing arguments.
MistakeData-response answers without using the data.
FixMark schemes reward integration of source figures into the argument. Generic theory answers under-score.
MistakeEssays without a clear thesis.
FixTop bands open with a clear position and defend it; throat-clearing introductions cap.
MistakeMacro answers conflating fiscal and monetary policy.
FixEach policy lever has its own diagram and transmission mechanism. We drill them as separate apparatus.
Study tips
- Diagrams are core: practise drawing every standard model (supply and demand, externalities, cost and revenue curves, AD/AS, the short-run and long-run Phillips curves) cleanly and under time pressure.
- For extended essay answers, structure your argument around clear evaluation: short run versus long run, magnitude, the assumptions behind the model and alternative views.
- AQA expects you to know how the economy and government policy have developed over the past fifteen years; reading the Financial Times or The Economist each week builds that stock of examples.
- Paper 3 (Economic principles and issues) draws on the whole specification, and its case study expects you to choose microeconomic or macroeconomic models as each question requires; practise making the link explicit, for example from rising costs in one industry to cost-push inflation.
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Often taken alongside this subject
- A-Level MathsMaths underpins the quantitative side of economics, and some economics degrees, including LSE's and Cambridge's, require it.
- A-Level BusinessCommon pairing for commerce-track students.
- IB EconomicsComparable scope for IB students.
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