01Lessons
Every topic, explained first
11 topics and 117 lessons, written by someone who has taught A-level economics since 1999. Each one explains the idea before it asks you anything about it.
- 11 topics
- Micro and macro
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The whole H460 course as 1,566 questions and explanations. Active learning paired with practice, so you master the content.
- 11 topics and 117 lessons
- 1,566 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 OCR.
Start with past papers
Every OCR 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
11 topics and 117 lessons covering the micro and macro content OCR examines, from the production possibility frontier through to exchange rates and development.
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 Component 01 micro you did in Year 12 is still fresh in your head in June.
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 in calculating the Consumer Price Index. Match a rate rise to what it does to mortgages, saving and the exchange rate. Sort statements into inflation, deflation and disinflation. You find out what you know by answering it.
- 1,566 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 three Components, and what's in them
The micro and macro content OCR examines, grouped the way H460 groups it — so what you practise sits under the same headings your teacher uses.
OCR A-Level Economics
- 01MicroeconomicsEconomic methodology · Consumer behaviour · Demand, supply and price · Elasticity · Production, costs and revenue · Market structures · Labour markets · Market failure · Government intervention · Business growth · Competition policy · Privatisation and public ownership
- 02MacroeconomicsMeasuring the economy · Aggregate demand and supply · National income · Growth · Unemployment · Inflation · Financial markets · Monetary, fiscal and supply-side policy · Policy conflicts · International trade · Balance of payments · Exchange rates · Development · Poverty and inequality · Economic integration
- 03Themes in Economics — the third paperThe synoptic paper. Two hours re-examining everything in Components 01 and 02 — so the whole course feeds it rather than one part of it.
Component 03 asks about all of it at once
Two hours and 80 marks, and no content list of its own. It re-examines everything in Components 01 and 02, which is the case for practising the whole course rather than the half you happen to be on.
Section A comes from anywhere
Multiple choice on the content of the specification, testing what you know and whether you can apply it. There is no one topic to revise for it — only all of them.
Section B is a theme, not a topic
Data response and longer essay questions on real-world scenarios, with stimulus material and quantitative data to read. It expects you to carry micro and macro into the same answer.
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Paper 1 is 10 May 2027. Work back from it.
H460/01 on Monday 10 May 2027 morning, H460/02 on Monday 17 May 2027 afternoon, H460/03 on Monday 7 June 2027 afternoon — two hours each. Give the app the first 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
10 May 2027. 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.
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.
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 — 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 OCR course, or a general one with H460 on the cover?
It is the OCR course, built specifically for H460 from the Economics Help revision guides and OCR's official specification. It is organised into OCR's own Components, so what you practise sits under the same headings your teacher uses. Component 03 is synoptic, so the whole course feeds it.
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 Component 01 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.
OCR H460
Paper 1 is 10 May 2027.
Start today, and you'll get through every topic well before the exam.