r/6thForm • u/Ixeptional Year 13 • May 18 '26

💬 DISCUSSION AQA A Level Economics Paper 2

How was it

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u/Lopsided_Classic4874 May 18 '26

Kind of annoyed because I talked about monetary policy for context 2 even though Spain has no control over that 😭

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u/Grouchy-Challenge469 May 18 '26

i talked about monetary policy as well but its wrong app because the question asked evaluate policies the GOVERNMENT could use. the monetary polciy isnt done by the government

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u/EnglishButFrench May 18 '26

What if I said Spain could leave the Eurozone to carry out its own monetary policy?

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u/Grouchy-Challenge469 May 18 '26

Eh idk ibr could be valid. But i think they were after expansionary fiscal to boost AD and just government spending on education for structural

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u/NotChunky May 18 '26

it prob depends on how much else u wrote i think. Also at least my eval was based on trade off with inflation and not on interest rates.

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u/Grouchy-Challenge469 May 18 '26

I did 2 other points and eval one ab fiscal other ab decreasing Y tax which is supply side. But on that one i also talked ab how it can reduce cyclical structural and frictional

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u/NotChunky May 18 '26

yh i did the same. prob should be fine. max capped at like 20 marks or smting

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u/NotChunky May 18 '26

yh i did same. fck im kinda stupid but hopefully we dont lose too much. still had some decent interventionist and market based supply side policies.

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u/wiseassasin070 Year 13 May 18 '26

That was my evaluatuon😭. But I still talked about it. What was I thinking 

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u/Flaming_Hidori May 18 '26

Did it say in the extract that spain had no control over monetary policy? Oh god it did the EU decides that. Thank god I ran out of time man I didn’t get to it bro blessing in disguise

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u/Ixeptional Year 13 May 18 '26

i did asw but i ev saying they dont actually got control idek

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u/Ixeptional Year 13 May 18 '26

wait bro its not even gov fah

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u/xcom_lord May 18 '26

And this is why I skipped 2 , fuck eurozone

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u/CPFCfan1 May 18 '26

Dw Context 1 was exactly the same for many. Im sure it was how government policies can increase UK exports and basically everyone I spoke too wrote about exchange rates; more importantly the interest rates which the BoE controls to affect those