AQA Economics A-Level: Macro Exemplar Essay Questions

AQA Economics A-level: specification 7135, 7136
I sat my Economics exam in summer 2018 and achieved A star (A) grades across all three papers. Here is a collection of some A* grade exemplar essays.

Complete written essays included:
• Discuss the possible contribution of supply-side reforms to achieving an improvement in the UK balance of trade in goods (25 marks)

• Assess the importance of a floating exchange rate to a country trying to achieve macroeconomic stability [25 marks]

• Explain how interdependence and uncertainty affect the behaviour of firms in oligopolistic markets? (15 marks)

• ‘Increased protectionism could be damaging as the UK is placing much of its hopes for export success on the growing Chinese market’. Evaluate the view that the use of protectionism is inevitably damaging to economies (25 marks)

• Explain three characteristics of recession (15 marks)

• Discuss the view that monetary policy has been the most important factor behind the recovery of the UK economy in recent years (25 marks)