Edexcel Economics A, specification 9EC0, plus Edexcel GCSE Economics. Taught by Rayan Raheel, who reads Economics at UCL and sat this specification in 2026.
Most Economics tutoring teaches content and hopes the marks follow. We start at the mark scheme and work backwards. Tap any highlighted phrase below to see what it earns and why.
Edexcel splits the course into four themes and then examines them in combinations. Students who revise by theme and not by paper walk into Paper 3 unprepared, because Paper 3 does not respect theme boundaries.
Themes 1 and 3. Market failure, elasticity, costs and revenues, market structures and the labour market. Two hours, 100 marks.
Themes 2 and 4. Measures of performance, aggregate demand and supply, policy, globalisation, trade, development and the financial sector. Two hours, 100 marks.
All four themes in two data-response sections, each ending in a 25-mark essay. The paper that decides most grades, and the one most students under-prepare.
Every session maps to numbered specification points, so a student and a parent can both see what has been covered and what is left. Nothing is improvised on the day.
Short questions on the last session and on something from three weeks ago. Economics fails at the end of Year 13 because Theme 1 has quietly evaporated. Spaced retrieval is the cheapest fix available.
New material taught with the diagram drawn live on an iPad, so the student watches it built rather than reading a finished one. Every diagram gets labelled the way the mark scheme wants it labelled, including the shifts and the new equilibrium.
One exam-style question, written under timed conditions, then marked against the real Edexcel mark scheme in front of the student. They see exactly where the marks stopped, which is a different experience from a number written on the top of a page a week later.
One question or one chain of analysis to write. We mark it. Without work between sessions, an hour a week does very little.
These come out of the examiner reports year after year. If a student recognises themselves in one of these, tutoring will move the grade quickly.
"Interest rates rise so consumption falls." That is one link where four were available. We drill chains until the fourth link arrives automatically.
"However, it depends on the situation" is not evaluation, and examiners say so every year. A judgement needs a condition, a magnitude or a time frame attached to it.
Students memorise statistics and then write generic answers. We teach how to pull a number out of the extract and make it do work in the argument.
Two 25-markers in two hours is a pacing problem before it is a knowledge problem. We fix it with timed halves rather than whole papers.
Edexcel Economics A, code 9EC0, at A-Level, and Edexcel GCSE Economics, code 1EC0. We don't teach AQA, OCR or Eduqas. Knowing one specification at the level of its question stems and examiner reports is the point of what we do, and it doesn't survive being spread across four boards.
Year 12 is the cheapest time to fix Economics, because Theme 1 and Theme 2 are the foundation the synoptic Paper 3 is built on. Starting in Year 13 works too, but the work shifts from building understanding to rebuilding it under time pressure.
Shape before content. Students learn a chain structure that reaches a defended judgement, practise it against real mark schemes, and get written feedback on every attempt. Once the shape is automatic, the content has somewhere to go.
We ask for the most recent marked paper, not the grade. A grade tells us where a student is. A marked script tells us why, which is the only thing we can act on.
Yes, informally. For the personal statement itself, Rayan also runs Writ AI, which coaches applicants through the statement and has it reviewed by a student at a top university.
Free, on the first call, before you commit to anything. If the fix is something a student can do alone, we'll say that instead of selling you sessions.
Book a free intro call