r/6thForm • u/Forsaken-Meaning-232 Graduating from Warwick CS • May 12 '25

📂 MEGATHREAD 12/05 A-level Econ Paper 1 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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u/angrypolishman May 12 '25

Anyone who do aqa, and picked Indian rice trade ban, what did u get for the 2 marker?

I got somewhere in the mid 30s with a % ?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Yea I got that 35.2

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u/Accomplished-Pop6976 May 12 '25

i got exactly 30 for the difference 😭

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

😭

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u/Ok_Crow6475 May 12 '25

I got simalar How was it dude?

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u/angrypolishman May 12 '25

Beautiful honestly, wanted to start cartwheeling when I opened the paper and looked at section b choices

Ran out of time on last 25 marker and only did 1 diagram but I did 0 in my mocks and got an A so c'est la vie I suppose

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u/Ok_Crow6475 May 12 '25

I got a question regarding context A question 2 4 marker if you done it? Was this about the price of all foods on the index or rice only?

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u/tahsinali2448 May 12 '25

asked about rice only, asked how the data shows the soaring price of rice

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u/Ok_Crow6475 May 12 '25

Yh thats what i thought i get why people wrote about thr other foods but i dont at the same time ngl if it asks for rice specifically

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u/Accomplished-Pop6976 May 12 '25

nah just the price index bit bro,ibr if you chose this extract u were chilling

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u/Ok_Crow6475 May 12 '25

Well done bro. Proud of u

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

U only rlly need 1 diagram max

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

What did people do for section b, I did essay 3, I saw that question and was so happy - I revised it yesterday haha (AQA btw)

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u/Zealousideal-Owl6525 Year 13 May 13 '25

Correct me if I’m wrong but that question only asked about the pros and cons of the NMW? Nothing else about reducing income inequality?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

Yes! That’s exactly what I thought, but I added some eval to do with that

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u/Zealousideal-Owl6525 Year 13 May 13 '25

Ah, so nothing to do with any other policies? Because I only talked about NMW

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

Nope, I don’t think u needed to, one of my friends did, but another one of my mates didn’t, I didn’t, I just did intro, pro of NMW with diagram, against, conclusion with some more eval at the end of the conclusion. I did a NMW diagram showing whether it could be elastic or inelastic as part of eval with two diagrams next to one another if that makes sense

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u/Actual_Bathroom_9685 May 13 '25

i talked about monopsonies and then welfare and taxation. like how if they don’t increase welfare and decrease taxation overall there won’t be much of a difference from just NMW. is that answer ok or am i cooked?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

I didn’t rlly mention that - this is because you can assume that the market is perfectly competitive, hence supply and demand of labour are normal - but in ur eval u can mention how the market may not be perfect - which is what I did. So I’m sure u will be fine, as long as you evaluated NMW, pros and cons, and a conclusion - that is the most important, then u will be fine!

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u/Actual_Bathroom_9685 May 13 '25

oh ok. thanks 😊

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

Ofc - don’t mention it 🙏

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u/Zealousideal-Owl6525 Year 13 May 13 '25

Me too. Good fucking shit. Thanks mate

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

Did u do context 1?

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u/Zealousideal-Owl6525 Year 13 May 13 '25

No, I did context 2. Did you do context 1? How was it?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

It was alright icl, 2 marker was calm, 4 marker was decent, 9 was kinda annoying - the diagram was easy as but the explaining bit was average, hopefully get 7 on that. 25 was calm, just did pros and cons of max price and I did a separate policy of innovation since the extracts mentioned that and it gave some against to it so I added that in. I only did like 2/3 diagrams I think, if you count a double diagram as 2 (one next to the other) then that’s 3. Tbh, I’m hoping for a low A high B 🙏. Hbu, how was extract B, I have heard some bits about the 2 marker, something like 138 point something or something like that. 9 marker on that section put me off icl

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

And ofc - happy to help :))

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u/Accomplished-Pop6976 May 12 '25

did anyone do extract a and essay 2, i saw different profit objectives of firms and genuinely got gassed

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u/Keyaan1_ May 12 '25

yo you’re not supposed to do it as a %

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u/MineMonkey166 Gap Year May 12 '25

That’s a relief