September 2026 Economics update

Available from results day, our Access to Scripts service enables you to view your candidates’ marked scripts online or download them as PDFs. This provides greater transparency around marking, supports decisions about whether to request a review of marking, and can help inform future teaching and learning.

ResultsPlus is our online results analysis tool, providing a detailed breakdown of your students’ exam performance. Once results are released, you can use ResultsPlus to gain deeper insight into performance on each question at individual student, class or cohort level.

Set up ResultsPlus now to review your students’ performance.

Use ResultsPlus to understand your students’ performance 

ResultsPlus gives you a clear breakdown of how your students performed in Pearson Edexcel exams and BTEC external assessments at: 

• student level
• class level
• cohort level. 
  

Watch our short video to see how you can use ResultsPlus to get quick, useful insights

Find out more and set up your ResultsPlus account before the end of term 
  
For School Groups 
ResultsPlus Group Analysis helps you see performance across all your schools in one place. You can also use it to analyse mock exam results, so it’s useful throughout the year. 
 
Watch our short video to see how it works 
 
If you’re part of a trust or group of schools, you’ll need a separate ResultsPlus Group Analysis account even if your school already has ResultsPlus. 
 
Set up your ResultsPlus Group Analysis account before the end of term 

You may wish to find the 2026 grade boundaries for your subject on our Grade Boundaries page.

If you would like to see the cumulative percentage of candidates at each grade boundary as a percentage of the total cohort, you will need to visit the Grade Statistics Page.

The A level Economics maximum mark is 335 as this reflects the different weightings of the three A level papers. All three papers are out of 100 but Papers 1 and 2 have a 35% weighting whereas Paper 3 has a 30% weighting. This means that the marks you see are adjusted marks and not raw marks.  The conversion works by multiplying Paper 1 and 2 marks by 1.1725 and the Paper 3 mark by 1.005.

Feedback from examiners' reports as well as grade boundaries and statistics from previous exam series can be found on the assessment support page.

Our guide for students, parents and carers on Understanding results and grades contains helpful information about results and where to find further support.

The guide includes information on:

- receiving and understanding results
- grades and grade boundaries
- what steps to take if they are not happy with their results
- university applications
- certificates
- where to find further support.

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If your students took any exams in the May/June 2026 series, please share your experience. Your feedback helps us understand what’s working well and where we can improve, so we can give your students the best possible exam experience.

We’ll share your feedback with senior examiners and subject teams to shape future papers and improve assessments.

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This recent podcast from the Institute for Fiscal Studies might be interesting for students in relation to:

• Economics A: 2.6 and 4.5
• Economics B: 2.6 and 4.4

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 2026 series, we are eager to hear your thoughts.

Your feedback will play a vital role in shaping the future of our qualifications and assessments. 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.

Please take a few minutes to provide your feedback, thank you.

If you have a chance to ask any student who has just completed the qualification to provide us with feedback we would find it very useful.

Please visit the delivery support pages  to learn about both free and paid-for support available for our qualifications.

The after-school network events resume this year and we have already scheduled an event for each of the first two terms.

The latest recordings can be viewed here:

The A level Economics A You Tube Channel includes recordings of events from previous years.

We would welcome any feedback you may have on our FT case studies to help us improve these resources.

Go to the survey

Two new case studies have recently been added and we now have twenty case studies mapped to the specification.

Economics class: teaching ideas

The FT panel of teacher advisors has also picked articles to help improve study, exam and interview success, with suggestions on questions for class activities and discussion.

Go to the suggested Economics articles

Summer 2027 - Economics A

Summer 2027 - Economics B

The International GCSE and International A Level Economics  You Tube channel includes recordings of past training events.

• Getting Ready to Teach Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Economics (Modules 1 and 2)
• Getting Ready to Teach Pearson Edexcel IAL Economics (Modules 1 and 2)
• Exam insights events for International GCSE Economics
• Exam insights events for IAL Economics

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 2026 series, we are eager to hear your thoughts.

Your feedback will play a vital role in shaping the future of our qualifications and assessments. 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.

Please take a few minutes to provide your feedback, thank you.

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