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July 2025 Economics update
30 June 2025
Welcome to this July 2025 update.
In this last update of the year there are links to surveys (for both teachers and students) as well as information about the retirement of Active Learn.
I do hope that you enjoy the summer break when it comes but before you go...... please make sure you have completed the preparations for the results days in August detailed at the top of the update.
| Date | Activity |
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| 1 July | A level and IAL question papers uploaded |
| 15 July | A level and IAL mark schemes uploaded |
| 22 July | GCSE & International GCSE mark schemes uploaded |
| 14 August | Results day for A level and IAL Economics |
| 19 August | A level and IAL examiners' reports uploaded |
| 21 August | Results day for International GCSE Economics |
| 26 August | GCSE & International GCSE examiners' reports uploaded |
Before you go...
After results have been published you may wish to analyse your results using some of the services we have available such as Access To Scripts and Results Plus.
The Access to Scripts portal and ResultsPlus can only be accessed by Edexcel Online users who have the Exam Viewer and ResultsPlus permissions ticked in their Edexcel Online profiles.
Only Exams Officers are able to give teachers this access.
Don’t forget to ask your Exams Officer for access before you break up for the summer, so that you are ready for the post-results period.
Available from results day, our Access to Scripts service allows you to view your candidates’ marked scripts online or download as PDFs, providing transparency of marking and to help you make decisions around requests for reviews of marking and inform future teaching and learning.
ResultsPlus is our online results analysis tool that gives you a detailed breakdown of your students’ performance in their exams.
Once you’ve received your students' results, you can get more insight on their performance on each question at individual student, class or cohort level using ResultsPlus.
This is a recorded session which focuses on best practice when using ResultsPlus, alongside ExamWizard to analyse your students’ examination results, and improve your in-house approach to teaching the topics your students find challenging.
The Professional Development Academy summarises the training that is available to you.
As the end of the exam series has come to an end, we would like you to share your feedback on this year's exam papers. We wish to provide students with the best possible exam experience, and your insights are crucial in helping us achieve this goal. If you're a teacher whose students have taken any of our exams in the May/June 2025 series, we are eager to hear your thoughts.
Your input will be shared with our senior examiners and across our subject teams to help us continuously improve future assessments and enhance the exam experience for students.
We really appreciate your participation in this process, thank you.
Do you currently use ActiveLearn?
ActiveLearn will be retired by the end of 2026 and you will be upgraded to Active Hub our digital teaching and learning platform.
With ActiveHub, you’ll get:
- a user-friendly interface with improved navigation
- enhanced functionality including an insights dashboard, auto-marked activities and an assessment library (dependent on subscription package)
- a mobile-friendly platform, allowing your students to complete homework and interactive activities on the go
If you have a chance to ask any of your students to complete this survey, we would love to hear their feedback. It should take no more than five minutes to complete.
The Economics, Business and Enterprise Association would love to know about your subject-specific professional development needs to help plan activities for 2025-2026.
| A level Economics A |
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| Delivery support |
| Assessment support |
Delivery support focuses on free support materials, networking and both free and paid-for resources. There are links to Pearson, Hodder and other publishers.
A level Economics B |
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| Delivery support |
| Assessment support |
Assessment support focuses on assessment news and tools, support in understanding the command verbs, and information about grade boundaries and statistics.
Summer 2026 Timetable - Economics A
Summer 2026 Timetable - Economics B
The A level Economics A You Tube Channel includes recordings of events from previous years.
Recent case studies for Economics A
New case studies based on articles from the FT have been written for you to use with your students. These have up-to-date content and also have suggested answers.
| Case study | Theme 1 | Theme 2 | Theme 3 | Theme 4 | |
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| 1 | Coffee | 1.2.6 Price determination 1.2.8 Consumer and producer surplus 1.2.3 Price elasticity of demand |
4.3.2 Factors influencing growth and development: volatility of commodity prices | ||
| 2 | Electric cars | 2.1.4 Balance of payments | 4.1.6 Restrictions on free trade | ||
| 3 | Rent controls | 1.2.7 Price mechanism 1.4.1 Government intervention in markets 1.4.2 Government failure |
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| 4 | UK public sector borrowing | 2.5.3 Public sector finances | 4.5.1 Public expenditure | ||
| 5 | European carmakers | 1.2.3 Elasticities of demand | 3.1.2 Business growth 3.3.4 Normal profits, supernormal profits and losses 3.4.7 Contestability |
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| 6 | Disposable income | 2.1.1 Economic growth 2.2.1 The characteristics of AD 2.2.2 Consumption (C) 2.4.3 Equilibrium levels of real national output |
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| 7 | Italy's small businesses | 3.1.1 Sizes and types of firms 3.1.2 Business growth 3.2.1 Business objective |
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| 8 | Workers in the global economy | 4.1.1 Globalisation 4.2.2 Inequality |
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| 9 | Saudi Aramco and lithium | 1.2.6 Price determination | 3.1.2 Business growth | 4.3.2 Factors influencing growth and development 4.3.3 Strategies influencing growth and development |
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| 10 | Brazil’s fiscal shortfall | 4.1.8 Exchange rates 4.5.4 Public sector finances 4.5.4 Macroeconomic policies in a global context |
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| 11 | The office lunch disrupters | 3.3.1 Revenue 3.3.2 Costs 3.4.4 Oligopoly – types of price and non-price competition 3.4.7 Contestability |
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| 12 | Kenya – a window into Africa’s demographic future | 1.1.4 Production possibility frontiers
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2.3.3 Long-run aggregate supply 2.5.1 Causes of growth |
4.3.2 Factors influencing growth and development 4.3.3 Strategies influencing growth and development |
There are also some other case studies in the Files section of the Facebook group.
Recent case studies for Economics B
The FT case studies above have been mapped to the Economics A specification but they could work for Economics B teaching as well. The command verbs used in the exam-style questions would need to be changed.
New case studies with up-to-date content have been added to both the dropbox folder and to the Files section of the Facebook group.
| IAL Economics |
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| Delivery support |
| Assessment support |
Delivery support focuses on free support materials, networking and both free and paid-for resources. There are links to Pearson, Hodder and other publishers.
| International GCSE Economics |
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| Delivery support |
| Assessment support |
Assessment support focuses on assessment news and tools, support in understanding the command verbs, and information about grade boundaries and statistics.
IAL Economics training
| 16 October | Getting Ready to Teach International A Level Economics |
| 23 October | Understanding Assessment & Improving Delivery in International A Level Economics |
October 2025 timetable
Results day will be Thursday 22 January 2026.
January 2026 Timetable
Summer 2026 Timetable
International GCSE Economics training
| 2 October | Getting Ready to Teach International GCSE Economics |
| 9 October | Understanding Assessment & Improving Delivery in International GCSE Economics |
November 2025 Timetable
Summer 2026 Timetable
The interim report was published in March with the final report due in the autumn.
Many teachers have been emailing me asking about the future of our GCSE and A level qualifications. We have had no indication as yet that reforms are in the pipeline but the final report of the Review may provide more information.
These monthly updates will keep you informed of any announcements.
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Economics
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