What are model paragraphs?

These are high-quality evaluation paragraphs written for A-Level Economics 25-mark essays. They show how to structure and phrase top-level responses.

Are they exam-board specific?

No — they work across AQA, Edexcel and OCR exam boards.

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Use them to improve your structure, evaluation, and written style. They’re especially useful for planning essays and practicing timed writing.

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A-Level Economics Model Paragraphs

Last updated on 27 Jun 2025

These model paragraphs are crafted to help you structure high-level 25-mark essay responses. Based on years of tutoring experience, they’ve been used by students aiming for A/A* and even adopted in classroom lessons.

A-Level Economics 2025 Resources

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A-Level Microeconomics Model Paragraphs

Demand, supply and elasticity
- Notes
Economies of scale
Behavioural economics
- Bounded rationality and bounded self-control
- Behavioural policies
Market failure
- Public goods
- Externalities
Government intervention
- Indirect tax
- Subsidy
- Maximum price
- Minimum price
- State provision
- Provision of info for demerit goods
- Provision of info for merit goods
- Behavioural economics for demerit goods
- Leave it to market forces
Business objectives
- Profit maximisation
- Revenue maximisation
Market structures
- Monopoly
- Natural monopoly
- Monopolistic competition
- Perfect competition
- Competitive oligopoly
- Collusive oligopoly
- Price discrimination
- Regulation of monopolies
  - Privatisation
  - Nationalisation
  - Subsidise new entrants
  - Price caps
Labour markets
- Causes of wage differentials
- Government intervention and trade union impact
  - Minimum wage in a competitive labour market
  - Education and training in a competitive labour market
  - Minimum wage in a monopsony labour market
Inequality
- Leave it to the market
- Progressive tax and benefits
- Education and training
- State provision
- Minimum wages

A-Level Macroeconomics Model Paragraphs

The four main macroeconomic objectives
- Impact of high inflation
- Impact of deflation
- Impact of high unemployment
- Economic growth
Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
- Analysis of the diagrams
Demand and supply-side Policies
International economics
- Impact of a current account deficit
- Impact of a current account surplus
- Causes of a currency depreciation
- Causes of a currency appreciation
- Impact of a currency depreciation
- Impact of a currency appreciation
- Floating exchange rates
- Fixed exchange rates
- Advantages of globalisation and free trade
- Disadvantages of globalisation and free trade
- Impact of tariffs
- Policies used to reduce a current account deficit
  - Supply-side policies
  - Tariffs
  - Currency devaluation
Economic development
- Causes of high/low economic development
  - Primary product dependency
  - Savings
  - Access to credit
  - Poor infrastructure, education and skills
  - Absence of property rights
- Strategies to promote economic development
  - Market-based policies
  - Interventionist policies
  - Causes of poverty and inequality
Financial markets
- Components of financial market failure
  - Liquidity crisis
  - Bank run
  - Systemic risk
  - Moral hazard and externalities
  - Global financial crisis
- Protection against financial market failure
  - The Bank of England (lender of last resort)
  - PRA, FCA, FPC