What comes up, paper by paper
Marks assessed under each section of the specification across the three A-level papers in each series, counted from the mark schemes. Darker cells carry more marks; the right-hand column is the total since the first series. Essays are counted once (one of the either/or pair), so each series totals 300.
| Topic | Jun 17 | Jun 18 | Jun 19 | Oct 20 | Nov 21 | Jun 22 | Jun 23 | Jun 24 | Jun 25 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature of economics | 5 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 25 | 60 | ||||
| How markets work | 50 | 73 | 46 | 49 | 23 | 34 | 34 | 20 | 23 | 352 |
| Market failure | 18 | 46 | 10 | 67 | 8 | 9 | 37 | 23 | 68 | 286 |
| Government intervention | 25 | 8 | 50 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 50 | 20 | 183 | |
| Measures of economic performance | 15 | 5 | 39 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 40 | 42 | 179 | |
| Aggregate demand (AD) | 27 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 34 | 12 | 117 | |
| Aggregate supply (AS) | 25 | 25 | 37 | 7 | 8 | 102 | ||||
| National income | 61 | 54 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 45 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 215 |
| Economic growth | 5 | 1 | 50 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 78 | ||
| Macroeconomic objectives and policies | 67 | 30 | 50 | 100 | 100 | 40 | 55 | 52 | 55 | 549 |
| Business growth | 15 | 25 | 17 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 120 |
| Business objectives | 25 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 50 | |||
| Revenues, costs and profits | 37 | 22 | 16 | 42 | 43 | 88 | 36 | 110 | 55 | 449 |
| Market structures | 18 | 44 | 47 | 52 | 120 | 75 | 40 | 42 | 28 | 466 |
| Labour market | 30 | 25 | 35 | 78 | 50 | 80 | 33 | 129 | 460 | |
| Government intervention | 23 | 57 | 30 | 10 | 25 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 184 | |
| International economics | 105 | 72 | 63 | 91 | 46 | 88 | 30 | 110 | 32 | 637 |
| Poverty and inequality | 5 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 25 | 13 | 25 | 25 | 143 | |
| Emerging and developing economies | 41 | 60 | 37 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 45 | 8 | 71 | 375 |
| The financial sector | 17 | 35 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 79 | ||||
| Role of the state in the macroeconomy | 70 | 17 | 55 | 35 | 58 | 16 | 56 | 48 | 15 | 370 |
June 2025 is the most recent series Pearson has published. Pearson keeps each summer's papers secure for about a year (the June 2026 papers are expected after the summer 2027 exams), so the data here runs to the latest public series. October 2020 and November 2021 were the series sat in place of the cancelled summer exams.
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