Economics study guides

A complete overview of how SQA Advanced Higher Economics is structured and assessed: the SCQF level 7 status, the three areas of study, the 80-mark question paper, the 40-mark project, the A to D grading, and how to plan your year around the two components.

A deep-dive SQA Advanced Higher Economics guide to the Economic Markets: Structures and Intervention area. Covers costs and profit maximisation, the four market structures, efficiency, market failure and government intervention, and labour markets, with the diagram and evaluation skills the question paper rewards.

A deep-dive SQA Advanced Higher Economics guide to the National and Global Economic Issues area. Covers growth and the business cycle, inflation and unemployment, the AD/AS model and the multiplier, fiscal, monetary and supply-side policy, the Scottish economy, trade, exchange rates, the balance of payments and development.

A deep-dive SQA Advanced Higher Economics guide to the Researching an Economic Issue area. Covers choosing a focused issue and aim, primary and secondary research, sampling, organising and presenting data, data handling, reliability and validity, referencing, conclusions and evaluating the research process for the project.