IGCSE Economics Tutoring & Prep Course

The basic economic problem

Scarcity, opportunity cost, factors of production, production possibility curves.

The allocation of resources

Demand and supply, price determination, elasticity, market and mixed economies.

Microeconomic decision makers

Households, workers, trade unions, firms, economies and diseconomies of scale.

Government and the macroeconomy

Macro objectives, fiscal and monetary policy, supply-side policy, inflation, unemployment, GDP.

Sınavda yeri: Policy evaluation is the highest-mark essay skill on Paper 2.

Economic development

Living standards, HDI, poverty, population, sustainability.

International trade and globalisation

Specialisation, exchange rates, balance of payments, protectionism, globalisation impacts.

HataDiagrams without proper axis labels.

DüzeltmeBoth boards reward fully labelled axes, equilibrium points and shift labels. Hasty diagrams under-score.

HataConfusing 'analyse' and 'discuss'.

DüzeltmeAnalyse builds an argument; discuss requires balanced evaluation. Mismatch is a predictable loss.

HataMacroeconomic answers without specific policy mention.

DüzeltmeTop bands name explicit fiscal or monetary policy moves with effects, not generic 'government action'.

HataDefinitions written from memory without subject precision.

DüzeltmeDefinitions should be written using the exact economic vocabulary mark schemes test for.

HataData-response answers that ignore the source data.

DüzeltmeData-response marks reward integrating the figures into the argument. Generic answers under-score.

Diagram-first habits

Every micro and macro answer is built around a labelled diagram — analysis without diagram is incomplete.

Command-term scaffolds

Each command term has a structural template so students don't mismatch shape and prompt.

Source-grounded data response

We drill the habit of citing source data inside the argument, not as a separate paragraph.