01Lessons
Every topic, explained first
31 topics and 102 lessons, built with someone who has taught A-level economics since 1999. Each one explains the idea before it asks you anything about it.
- 31 topics
- Micro and macro
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The whole IB Economics course as questions and explanations. Active learning paired with practice, so you master the content.
- 31 topics and 102 lessons
- 1,277 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 IB.
Start with past papers
Every IB 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.
The whole course, on your phone
31 topics and 102 lessons covering the micro and macro content IB examines, from scarcity and choice through to exchange rates.
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. Unit 2 micro is still fresh in your head when the paper comes.
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.
02Practice
Questions, not more reading
Order the steps of capital accumulation. Match each supply curve to what its elasticity means. Sort the circular flow into injections and withdrawals. You find out what you know by answering it.
- 1,277 questions
- You see where you stand
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
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
The four units, and what's in them
The content the IB examines, grouped into its own four units — so what you practise sits under the same headings your teacher uses, with the key concepts running through all of them.
IB Economics
- 01Introduction to economicsScarcity · Choice · Opportunity cost · The production possibility curve · Economic methodology · The nine key concepts that run through the whole course
- 02MicroeconomicsDemand, supply and price · Elasticity · Production, costs and revenue · Market structures · Market failure · Government intervention
- 03MacroeconomicsMeasuring the economy · Aggregate demand and supply · National income · Growth · Unemployment · Inflation · Monetary, fiscal and supply-side policy
- 04The global economyInternational trade · Balance of payments · Exchange rates · Economic integration · Economic development · Poverty and inequality
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Put in your session date and work back from it.
The IB examines twice a year, in May and in November, and your school sits one of them. Give the app your date and it spreads the course across the weeks in front of it.
1Choose the depth
Choose the learning depth. Do you want to learn absolutely everything, or just cover the basics?
2Set the date
Set your exam date. The content is spread across the time you still have until the exam.
3Follow your study plan
Each day is a mix of new topics and ones you are about to forget and have to revisit.
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
The explanation, and where it's from
Getting one wrong is the useful part, as long as something tells you why.
Why that answer, not the one you picked
The explanation names the economics rather than restating the answer.
Where to read more
Each explanation points to the material it is drawn from, so you can read the argument around it.
The part of the video that explains it
Where a topic has a video, the explanation links to the stretch of it that covers your question, 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.
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.
“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
Questions
Isn't all of this free on economicshelp.org?
The explanations are, and they stay free — nothing on the site is walled off behind the course. 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 before the exam. That is what you are paying for.
Is this written for the IB, or an A-level course with IB labels?
It is the IB course, built specifically for the Diploma from the Economics Help revision guides and the IB's official subject guide. It follows the IB's own four units, and the key concepts are how the course tags what you are practising.
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.
I'm in Year 12. Is it too early to start?
No, and that is the point of starting in DP1. 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 you go. The alternative is meeting Unit 2 again the week before the paper.
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.
IB Economics
May or November. Start from the date.
Start today, and you'll get through every topic well before the exam.