A-Level Economics: The First Term Survival Pack
Where the marks actually sit on AQA 7136 and Edexcel 9EC0, what each mark scheme actually rewards, and the fifth of the A-level that is arithmetic. Nine pages, every fact from a board document.
AQA publishes two grids for these papers. The 25 mark grid asks for supported evaluation throughout the response and in a final conclusion. The 15 mark grid never uses the word evaluation at all, at any of its three levels. A student who spends their last four minutes weighing up the argument on a 15 is doing careful work for zero marks, and the marker cannot give it to them.
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A-Level-Economics-The-First-Term-Survival-Pack.pdf
A-Level-Economics-The-First-Term-Survival-Pack-EDITABLE.docx
What is inside
- AQA 7136 and Edexcel 9EC0 on one page: papers, marks, time, weighting
- A real AQA Paper 1 mapped question by question, with the marks each part carried
- Both AQA levels of response grids quoted word for word, with what separates the bands
- Edexcel’s two grids: why evaluation is capped at 9 marks out of 25
- Edexcel’s three extended response commands in Pearson’s own wording
- The 20% quantitative minimum, and AQA’s nine skills verbatim
- A nine question baseline test for week one, one per skill, with answers
How this one was checked
Every exam board claim in this pack was read out of that board's own published document, and the section it came from is printed beside it. Page 8 lists the documents so you can settle any of it yourself in about a minute.
That is not a boast, it is a repair. In August 2026 we published a free pack that named the wrong command word for an Edexcel GCSE question, and two teachers caught it publicly within three hours. The fix was to stop writing board facts from memory: every one now lives in a file with the URL it came from, and a script checks the whole library against it before anything goes out.
This stays free. Everything in the resource library is free and it stays free. If you have made something that works, you can put it on the same shelf: post a free resource. Or just browse the library.