01Lessons
Every topic, explained first
9 topics and 56 lessons, built with someone who has taught A-level economics since 1999. Each one explains the idea before it asks you anything about it.
- 9 topics
- Micro and macro
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AQA AS exam
The whole AQA AS Economics course as questions and explanations. Active learning paired with practice, so you master the content.
- 9 topics and 56 lessons
- 662 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 AS.
Start with past papers
Every AQA AS 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
9 topics and 56 lessons covering the micro and macro content AQA AS 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. The 3.1 micro you did in the autumn is still fresh in your head in May.
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
Put the steps of building a price index in order. Match flood defences and a busy beach to the kind of good they are. Sort transactions into credits and debits on the current account. You find out what you know by answering it.
- 662 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 May, and you are not relearning the whole course 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 two sections, and what's in them
The micro and macro content AQA examines at AS, grouped the way the board groups it — so what you practise sits under the same headings your teacher uses.
AQA AS Economics
- 3.1Microeconomics — the operation of markets and market failure3.1.1 Economic methodology and the economic problem · 3.1.2 Price determination in a competitive market · 3.1.3 Production, costs and revenue · 3.1.4 Competitive and concentrated markets · 3.1.5 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets
- 3.2Macroeconomics — the national economy in a global context3.2.1 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 Macroeconomic policy
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Paper 1 is 11 May 2027. Work back from it.
7135/1 on Tuesday 11 May 2027 and 7135/2 on Monday 17 May 2027, both in the morning — an hour and a half 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
11 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.
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.
41 model answers
Full AS essays across micro and macro, written for the guide — so you see how a complete answer is built, question by question.
Written the way it gets marked
Essay technique, and how to evaluate a question that asks for it, from a teacher who has marked thousands of exam papers.
“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 the AS course, or the A-level with bits cut out?
It is the 7135 course, built specifically for the AS from the Economics Help revision guides and AQA's official AS specification, and organised into 3.1 and 3.2 the way the specification numbers it. The AS is a smaller, separate qualification — no behavioural economics, no labour market — and the course leaves out what the AS does not examine.
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 now. The AS is one year, so the exam comes round fast. 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.
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 AS 7135
Paper 1 is 11 May 2027.
Start today, and you'll get through every topic well before the exam.