Bella Loftheim Posted January 9, 2017 Report Share Posted January 9, 2017 Does anyone have any tips for the Economics SL Paper 1? Especially question b. Thank you Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ana Simoes Posted February 3, 2017 Report Share Posted February 3, 2017 Hey! So our teacher has been teaching Economics HL for many years now and all his students always had 6+ on the exams. He always advises us to solve as many past papers as we can and try to follow this structure: Question a) DEDE b) DEDEC This means: Definition; Example; Diagram; Explain - So usually you should always define the key terms from the question, for example if they are talking about the increase of decrease in supply of a normal good you will have to define law of supply and normal good; you will then follow that by giving a real world example of what you are talking about; then use a diagram and explain your diagram and example Try this out! It works every time C stands for Conclusion - if there is a need for one (usually part B) For Paper 2 the structure is: DFAC or FAFAC + SAF D - Define terms Arguments: - Paper 2 questions are always about comparing two things... 2 policies, 2 approaches etc.. so you will have to know the benefits and drawbacks of both of them in order to discuss in the end which approach is better. So it follows: F - For A - Against F - For A - Against C - Conclusion If you see you have extra time after writing everything you can throw in both paper 1 and 2 the SAF - Smart Ass Factor which is that extra push that makes you go from the 13 to the full marks - 15 if talking about part b) or 10 marks if talking about part a) - this however is ONLY if you have extra time since the 2 extra points will not be very significant if you already have the minimum required for you 7 Hope this helps 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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