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The whole 7136 course as 850 questions and explanations. Active learning paired with practice, so you master the content.

  • 14 topics and 75 lessons
  • 850 questions in 12 formats
  • Built with a teacher of more than twenty-five years

economicshelp.org has been explaining economics for over twenty years

The site is free, and it stays free. This course is what comes after reading it. Focused exam preparation for AQA.

  • Start with past papers

    Every AQA student 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.

What's in it

The whole course, on your phone

14 topics and 75 lessons covering the micro and macro content AQA examines, from the production possibility frontier through to exchange rates and development.

The topics as AQA groups them, filtered by how well you know them
Starting a lesson inside a topic
A video lesson with the transcript beside it
The extra material attached to a lesson
The exercises inside a subtopic
Starting targeted practice on your weakest topics
Your knowledge level, topic by topic
Choosing how deep to go on a topic
The warning that a topic is starting to fade
A repetition round bringing an older topic back
The explanation of why an answer is right
Asking the app about the economics material
The learning path through the course
Fitting the course into your timetable
The schedule the app builds for you
Choosing which days you study
The finished study plan, summarised
  • Every topic, in order

    The course is broken into topics and lessons, so you always know which part you are on and which part is still left.

  • You answer, you don't re-read

    Each lesson comes with questions — ordering, matching, fill the blank, multiple choice — so you find out what you actually know before the paper does.

  • It comes back before you forget it

    What you get wrong returns in a few days. What you know returns later. The 3.1 micro you did in Year 12 is still fresh in your head in June.

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

14 topics and 75 lessons, written by someone who has taught A-level economics since 1999. Each one explains the idea before it asks you anything about it.

  • 14 topics
  • Micro and macro
The AQA economics topics and lessons in the Voovo app
02Practice

Questions, not more reading

Order the chain from information failure to market failure. Match anchoring to the example that shows it. Sort the assumptions into the traditional model and behavioural theory. You find out what you know by answering it.

  • 850 questions
  • You see where you stand
A AQA 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 AQA economics material
What's covered

The two sections, and what's in them

The micro and macro content AQA examines, grouped the way 7136 groups it — so what you practise sits under the same headings your teacher uses.

AQA A-Level Economics

  1. 3.1Microeconomics — individuals, firms, markets and market failure3.1.1 Economic methodology and the economic problem · 3.1.2 Individual economic decision making · 3.1.3 Price determination in a competitive market · 3.1.4 Production, costs and revenue · 3.1.5 Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly · 3.1.6 The labour market · 3.1.7 The distribution of income and wealth: poverty and inequality · 3.1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets
  2. 3.2Macroeconomics — the national and international economy3.2.1 The measurement of macroeconomic performance · 3.2.2 How the macroeconomy works: the circular flow of income, AD/AS analysis and related concepts · 3.2.3 Economic performance · 3.2.4 Financial markets and monetary policy · 3.2.5 Fiscal policy and supply-side policies · 3.2.6 The international economy
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Planning

Paper 1 is 10 May 2027. Work back from it.

7136/1 on Monday 10 May 2027, 7136/2 on Monday 17 May 2027, 7136/3 on Monday 7 June 2027 — two hours each. Give the app the first date and it spreads the course across the weeks in front of it.

  • Choosing how much of the syllabus to include
    1

    Choose the depth

    Choose the learning depth. Do you want to learn absolutely everything, or just cover the basics?

  • Setting the exam date in the study planner
    2

    Set the date

    10 May 2027. The content is spread across the time you still have until the exam.

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

    Follow your study plan

    Each day is a mix of new topics and ones you are about to forget and have to revisit.

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 a chain of economic reasoning in order
Matching terms to what they mean
Sorting statements into two columns
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
When you get one wrong

The explanation, and where it's from

Getting one wrong is the useful part, as long as something tells you why.

An exercise with its explanation open, cited to a page of the revision guide
  • Why that answer, not the one you picked

    The explanation names the economics rather than restating the answer.

  • The page it came from

    Cited to his own revision guide, down to the page and the paragraph it is drawn from. Every exercise in the course has one.

  • The minute that explains it

    About a third of them link to a timestamped stretch of his own video — the monopoly diagram, exchange rates — so you land on the part you needed rather than the start.

The complete exam preparation

Combine the course with the Model Essays PDF. The course teaches you the concepts, the PDF shows you the right structure.

Tejvan Pettinger's 50 Model Economic Essays for A-Level beside the course on a phone
  • Fifty model answers

    Full essays on questions taken from past papers, chosen to be appropriate for any board — so you are not reading an answer written for somebody else's spec.

  • Written the way it gets marked

    Step by step and examiner-style: how the chain of reasoning runs, where the evaluation goes, and what a judgement actually looks like on the page.

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, marking A-level economics papers. That is why the notes are written in the shape of the answer rather than the shape of a textbook.

I don't teach university economics. I teach A-level economics.

  • 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

Questions

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

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

Is this actually the AQA course, or a general one with 7136 on the cover?

It is the AQA course, built specifically for 7136 from the Economics Help revision guides and AQA's official specification. It is organised into AQA's own 3.1 and 3.2, so what you practise sits under the same headings your teacher uses. AQA does not use Themes; anything telling you it does was written for Edexcel.

Does it mark my essays?

No. Everything in the app has a checkable answer — ordering, matching, multiple choice, fill the blank — so it cannot mark an essay, and anything claiming to is guessing. What it does drill is the economics the essay is built from: the definitions, the chains of reasoning and the case for and against each policy. For the writing itself, use your teacher and Tejvan's model answers.

Is the course written by AI?

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

I'm in Year 12. Is it too early to start?

No, and that is the point of starting now. You choose how much of the course goes into your plan, so you can work through only what your class has covered and add the rest as the year goes on. The alternative is meeting 3.1 again in study leave.

For parents: what is this, and what does it cost?

A study course inside the Voovo app, built with Tejvan Pettinger, who has taught A-level economics in Oxford since 1999 and has written six books on the subject. It is not a tutor and it does not replace school — it is the practice in between. The price is on the course above.

AQA 7136

Paper 1 is 10 May 2027.

Start today, and you'll get through every topic well before the exam.