A-Levels Economics

• Course Title:              GCE Economics
  UCAS Points:             140-40
  Awarding Body:         WJEC
  

• The recent economic recession has highlighted economy in the media as never before, so perhaps it is worth understanding a bit more about the A-level economics subject. It is this thinking that has led hundreds of people to take an A-level in economics.
  A-level economics is a fairly new subject available to study, but is becoming a very popular option. There are a lot of doors opened from studying A-level economics, with great university choices as well as career options.
  

• SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENT
  This specification has four external assessment units.
  Marks are given as raw and uniform marks (UMS).
  Weightings noted below are expressed in terms of the full A level qualification.

   

  EC1 20% 1 hour Written Paper 50 marks
  (80 UMS)
  Compulsory short-answer questions to assess all of the AS
  content.

  EC2 30% 2 hours Written Paper 80 marks
  (120 UMS)
  One compulsory data response question (40 marks) and two,
  two-part essays (20 marks each) to assess all of the AS
  content. One of the essays from a choice of three will assess
  essentially microeconomics and one essay from a choice of
  three will assess essentially macroeconomics.

  EC3 25% 1 hour and 45 minutes Written Paper
  60 marks (100 UMS)
  Compulsory short-answer questions (40 marks) and one
  synoptic essay (20 marks) from a choice of three to assess all
  of the A level content.

  EC4 25% 2 hours Written Paper 60 marks
  (100 UMS)
  One data response question from a choice of two (40 marks)
  and one synoptic essay (20 marks) from a choice of three to
  assess all of the A level content.