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Four modular units, three exam series a year, and a resit strategy most families never plan. We tutor unit by unit - markets, macro, business behaviour and the global economy - to the exact combination your child is taking.
A simple four-step approach designed to build confidence, close gaps and improve exam performance.
We confirm the syllabus code, exam series and paper route for YEC11. Everything else depends on this.
A diagnostic against the syllabus topics tells us what's secure and what isn't, so we teach the gaps rather than the whole book.
The same tutor teaches each week around school. Concepts build step by step, with the school's pace kept in view.
Past-paper questions begin early, followed by full timed papers marked against the published mark scheme.
Expert, vetted Edexcel International A Level Economics tutors who have taught the YEC11 specification. Past-paper work is reviewed against published mark schemes, so your child can see where marks are awarded and where they are being lost. UK-qualified teachers are available on request as a premium option.
Not "edexcel international a level economics in general" - this syllabus, this tier and these papers.
Your child learns where the marks actually are, not where they feel they should be.
Shared whiteboard, worked solutions and lesson materials saved to review after the session.
The same tutor every week - and if that changes, we tell you first.
The qualification is fully modular. Two IAS units and two IA2 units make up the full International A Level, each a standalone written exam of two hours that can be banked - and resat - toward the final grade.
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IAS - UNITS 1 & 2 / 50% OF THE IALMicroeconomics, markets and applied source analysis
2h
80 marks / 25%
Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsMacro objectives, policy and structured evaluation
2h80 marks / 25%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsIA2 - UNITS 3 & 4 / TOP GRADE DECIDERSMarket structures, labour markets and intervention in depth
2h80 marks / 25%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsGlobalisation, trade, development and source-based argument
2h80 marks / 25%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsInternational AS (Units 1 and 2) is worth 50% of the full International A Level, and units can be sat together or spread across the year.
Figures shown for 0580 and 0980 syllabuses for 2025-2027.
IASUNITS 1 & 2 / 50% OF THE IALIAS
2h80 marks / 25%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsIAS
2h80 marks / 25%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsIA2UNITS 3 & 4 / TOP GRADE DECIDERSIA2
2h80 marks / 25%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsIA2
2h80 marks / 25%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsInternational AS (Units 1 and 2) is worth 50% of the full International A Level, and units can be sat together or spread across the year.
Units are available in January, June and October. Any unit can be resat and the better result counts toward the final grade.
None of these are about ability. Each one is a mechanism in the exam, and every one of them is trainable.
Modular freedom means an early, under-cooked unit sits in the aggregate untouched. Families often don't realise it can be resat - so a fixable score quietly caps the final grade.
Units 3 and 4 (IA2) carry the top-grade marks. Students who coast after a strong AS find the A* lives in the harder IA2 units. We weight support toward them.
Each unit ends in essay questions marked on levels, where a supported judgement - not just analysis - reaches the top band. This is the most common ceiling for able students.
A large part of each unit is built on a source booklet. Answers must draw on that data; generic, pre-learned responses leave applied marks uncollected.
Unit 3 examines market structures, contestability, labour markets and government intervention in depth. Treating it as 'extra micro' under-prepares students for a quarter of the qualification.
These are the main syllabus strands your child is expected to cover. We teach all of them, starting with the gaps that are costing marks first.
Tuition stays aligned to the exact paper or unit structure, so revision time goes where the marks actually move.
Share your child's details and syllabus code. We'll match the right tutor and arrange a free 30-minute demo session.
Four: Unit 1 Markets in Action and Unit 2 Macroeconomic Performance & Policy (the IAS), plus Unit 3 Business Behaviour and Unit 4 Developments in the Global Economy (the IA2). All four make up the full International A Level.
Yes - fully. Each unit is a standalone two-hour exam that can be banked across sessions and resat to improve the grade. That is the biggest structural difference from Cambridge, where the papers are sat together.
A* to E for the full International A Level; a to e for the International AS taken on its own.
Units are available in January, June and October, so assessment can be spread across the year.
Yes - any unit can be resat, and the better result counts toward the final grade. Planning resits deliberately is one of the biggest levers on the final aggregate.
Each combines multiple-choice, a source-based data-response and essay questions marked on levels, so both applied and evaluative skills are tested.
We replace them - free, and with no argument - and hand over the unit-by-unit progress and known concerns so the new tutor continues seamlessly.
Yes. The economics overlaps heavily; the difference is structure - Edexcel's bankable, resittable units versus Cambridge's papers-together model. The free assessment maps which suits your child.
