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A Level Economics, from diagram to judgement.
Your tutor explains each diagram shift, helps you structure data-response answers and essays, and pushes you to evaluate and reach a judgement.
Practise A Level EconomicsThis is worth 3 marks. They go for:
- At the lower price, quantity demanded rises (1 mark)
- At the lower price, quantity supplied falls (1 mark)
- Quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied, so there is excess demand: a shortage (1 mark)
Examiner tip: Draw the diagram with the maximum price below equilibrium and label the shortage. It often earns marks of its own.
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Assessment
How Cambridge International AS and A Level Economics is assessed
AS Level is Papers 1 and 2. The full A Level adds Papers 3 and 4, either all in one series or staged, with AS taken first.
Syllabus 9708, for exams in 2026–2028.
AS Level (Papers 1–2)
Paper 1: AS Level Multiple Choice
30 multiple-choice questions
- Time
- 1 h
- Marks
- 30
- Weight
- 33% of AS, 17% of A Level
Paper 2: AS Level Data Response and Essays
One data-response question, then two essays (one mainly micro, one mainly macro), each in two parts
- Time
- 2 h
- Marks
- 60
- Weight
- 67% of AS, 33% of A Level
A Level adds Papers 3 and 4
Paper 3: A Level Multiple Choice
30 multiple-choice questions
- Time
- 1 h 15 min
- Marks
- 30
- Weight
- 17% of A Level
Paper 4: A Level Data Response and Essays
Same three sections as Paper 2, with essays not split into parts
- Time
- 2 h
- Marks
- 60
- Weight
- 33% of A Level
There is no coursework. Every paper is a written exam.
From the official Cambridge International syllabus, checked October 2026. Read the syllabus
Syllabus content
What’s on the Cambridge International A Level Economics syllabus
AS Level
- Basic economic ideas and resource allocation
- The price system and the microeconomy
- Government microeconomic intervention
- The macroeconomy
- Government macroeconomic intervention
- International economic issues
A Level
- The price system and the microeconomy
- Government microeconomic intervention
- The macroeconomy
- Government macroeconomic intervention
- International economic issues
Where marks are lost
Common Cambridge International A Level Economics mistakes
Shifting the curve when the price changes.
A change in the good’s own price is a movement along the demand curve. Other factors, such as income, shift the curve.
Saying lower inflation means prices fall.
Inflation is a sustained rise in the general price level. When inflation falls, prices are still rising, only more slowly.
Ending an essay with “it depends”.
Say what it depends on and why, then reach a judgement. Evaluation needs a conclusion, not just a list of both sides.
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