250 – 300 Study Hours
Level 3 Difficulty
56 UCAS Points
Edexcel Qualification
Course Overview
All enrolments now will be for exams in Summer 2022.
You will be required to complete the three standard written exams.
Official exams
- 2 hours, 35% of marks
- 2 hours, 35% of marks
- 2 hours, 30% of marks
We provide a guaranteed exam space in one of our exam centres around the Country, to take away the hassle of needing to find your own.
Assignments
During your course, you’ll be required to complete the following:
- 1 introductory assignment
- 10 assignments
These do not contribute towards your final grade but provide you with an opportunity to submit work to your tutor for marking and feedback. This will help you to gauge your progress as you work through the course.
Course Content
- The nature of economics
- Production and specialisation
- Demand
- Supply
- Price determination
- Price mechanism
- Market failure
- Government intervention
- Government failure
- Measuring economic performance
- Aggregate demand
- Aggregate supply
- National income
- Economic growth
- Macroeconomic objectives and policies
- Introduction
- Business objectives
- Firms and growth
- Revenue
- Costs
- Profit
- Introduction
- Productive and allocative efficiency
- Barriers and market concentration
- Perfect competition and monopoly
- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
- The threat of competition
- Introduction
- Labour demand and supply
- Influences on the labour market
- Government intervention
- Introduction
- Globalisation
- Why trade?
- Balance of payments and the exchange rate
- International competitiveness
- Inequality and poverty
- Introduction
- International growth and development
- Strategies to promote growth and development
- The financial sector
- The role of the state in the macroeconomy
- Macroeconomic policies in a global context

- Awarding body: Edexcel
- Our course code: X914
- Qualification code: 9EC0
Edexcel is the UK’s largest awarding organisation offering academic and vocational qualifications in schools, colleges and work places in the UK and abroad. They have been helping people succeed in life through learning for nearly 2 decades. Edexcel is a multinational education and examination body.
Entry Requirements
A GCSE or equivalent qualification in economics or maths is recommended for this course.
Why Distance Learning?
If your Sixth Form doesn’t offer the courses you want – Study an A-Level through distance learning. You will sit the same exams and get the same A-Levels as you would in school, but are able to study at a time and place to suit you.
Plus, the results and transcript you’ll get will be exactly the same as if you’d studied in school, and your A Levels will be respected by colleges, universities and employers worldwide.
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