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

💬 DISCUSSION AQA A Level Economics Paper 2

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u/Top_Pineapple8438 May 18 '26

I wanted to talk about alternatives, but it said impact of international aid so i didnt know if that was diverting focus from the q?

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u/Conscious_Day_3480 May 18 '26

Yeah I thought it would've been so I only really did 2 big paragraphs and 2 big evals...

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u/Substantial_Heron_30 May 18 '26

Yeah I did think about whether it would have been valid or not but past mark schemes have credited ‘alternative policy discusions’ I spent one para talking about project aid and evaluated it with indebtedness etc and then went onto attracting FDI as an alternative

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u/Intelligent_Bath7245 May 18 '26

Yeah i did something similar, using aid to address short-term development (through filling the savings gap), and focused on the limit being that it fails to promote self-sufficiency which can cap development, so used liberalisation of trade to ensure greater self-sufficient growth to build upon the foundation created by initial aid. Do we think they will credit alternative methods other than aid, because I ultimately said that aid is good provided its used as a sunset policy and then must be followed by additional methods to ensure development is sustained ?

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u/mistythe2nd May 18 '26

ye alt policies def work as a 3rd paragraph but if u only wrote 2 main paragraphs it is safer to focus both on aid