Economics Help × Voovo

Ace your
economics exam

Tejvan Pettinger's revision notes as questions and exercises on your phone, every topic on your board's spec, built and explained by the teacher who marked the papers.

economicshelp.org has been explaining economics for over twenty years

The site is free, and it stays free. These courses are what come after reading it. Focused exam preparation for your specific board.

  • Start with past papers

    Everyone does them, and you should too. They show you what gets asked and how it gets asked, but they can't teach you the part you got wrong.

  • Read the explanation

    That's what the site is for. Twenty years of writing economics up clearly, topic by topic, and it doesn't cost anything.

  • Then practise it

    Reading something once isn't the same as knowing it. The course asks you about it until you can answer without stopping to think.

How it works

Read it, answer it, get it wrong, get it right

The lessons explain the topic. The questions make you actually learn it. What you get wrong gets practised more often. That is the best way to prepare for an exam.

01Lessons

Every topic, explained first

Every course runs through its own board's whole specification, topic by topic, from supply and demand through to exchange rates. Each lesson explains the concepts before asking anything.

  • Your board's whole spec
  • Micro and macro
The economics topics and lessons in the Voovo app
02Practice

Questions, not more reading

Put the steps of capital accumulation in order. Match PED = −0.15 to what it means. Sort statements into positive and normative. You find out what you know by answering.

  • Questions in 12 formats
  • You see where you stand
An economics exercise in the Voovo app
03Repetition

Older concepts are kept fresh

What you got wrong returns in a few days; what you know returns much later. So you still remember elasticity in the summer, and you are not relearning two years of content before the exam from zero.

  • Spaced practice
  • Nothing quietly fades
How repetition changes your knowledge level in the Voovo app
04Help

Ask when you're stuck

Ask about anything in the course and the answer comes from the course material itself, with the lesson it came from. No weak sources, no hallucinations.

  • Ask anything
  • Answers from the course
An answer drawn from the economics course material
How you practise

Twelve types of exercises

Ordering, matching, tables, labelling a monopoly diagram, fill the blank, flashcards — questions get asked in multiple ways, so you do not just memorize the shape of the answer

Putting the steps of capital accumulation in order
Matching PED values to what they mean
Sorting statements into positive and normative
Filling in the blanks in a definition
A question with more than one right answer
A single-answer multiple choice question
The same question, showing what other students answered
A true-or-false card on contestable markets
Completing a table comparing market structures
Labelling MC, MR, AC and AR on a monopoly diagram
Typing the missing labels onto a diagram
Asking the app about a question mid-exercise
Planning

Put in the exam date and it works backwards

Pick your date and the topics are spread across the days you have.

  • Setting the exam date in the study planner
    1

    Set your exam date

    Your study sessions and material are spread across the days until your exam date.

  • Choosing how much of the syllabus to include
    2

    Choose depth and repetition

    How much of the material to include — the essentials or every detail — and how often you want to practice.

  • A day's plan: revision and new material
    3

    Get your personal plan

    From here you just follow it: new material and review, day by day. You never have to wonder what to study next.

Who's behind it

“Learning is Active Not Passive.”

I studied PPE at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and I've been teaching A-level economics since 1999.

For six of those years I was an examiner and team leader for Edexcel, marking the papers you're about to sit.

I don't teach university economics. I teach this exam — which is why the notes are written in the shape of the answer rather than the shape of a textbook.

  • Teaching A-level economics in Oxford since 1999
  • Edexcel examiner and team leader, 2001–2007
  • Six books on economics, including Cracking Economics
Tejvan Pettinger
Tejvan PettingerOxford PPE · teaching A-level economics since 1999 · author of six books
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Questions

Isn't all of this free on economicshelp.org?

The explanations are, and they stay free — this course is built from them, not walled off behind them. What the site cannot do is ask you a question, notice that you got elasticity wrong in October, and put it back in front of you in March. That is the part you are paying for.

Will it cover my board's specification?

Yes. Each course is built specifically for its own board, from the Economics Help revision guides and that board's official specification. Pick your board above and you get its topics, in its order, under the headings your teacher uses.

Does it mark my essays?

No. Everything in the app has a checkable answer, so it cannot mark a 25-marker and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What it drills is the economics those essays are built from — the chains of reasoning, the cases for and against a policy, the definitions you need to be able to reach for. For the essays themselves, Tejvan sells model answers on his own site.

Is the course written by AI?

No. The material is Tejvan's, written over more than twenty years of teaching this exam. The app schedules it, asks you about it and explains an answer when you get it wrong. It does not write the economics.

I'm in Year 12 — is it too early?

No, and starting now is the point. You choose how much of the course goes into your plan, so you can work only through the topics your class has covered and add the rest as you go.

For parents: what is this?

A study course inside the Voovo app, built with Tejvan Pettinger, who has taught A-level economics in Oxford since 1999. It is not a tutor and it does not replace the school — it is the practice in between, and the reason the September topics are still there in May. The price is on the course above.

Starting point

Find your board and start there.

Every course is built for its own board: its topics, its papers and its dates.