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IGCSE Economics tutors

3 of 3 UK tutors teaching Economics at IGCSE.

Economics is offered at GCSE (less commonly) and A-level (AQA, Edexcel, OCR), and splits into microeconomics (markets, firms, market failure) and macroeconomics (growth, inflation, unemployment, policy). It's essay-and-data-heavy at A-level: students need to apply theory to current real-world events and write to mark schemes that reward structured argument with diagrams. Tutoring helps most with diagram technique (which is rewarded explicitly), with essay structure under timed conditions, and with the macro paper, which lags news and rewards students who follow the FT or equivalent. For Oxbridge or LSE applicants, look for tutors who go beyond the spec.

IGCSE (International GCSE) is offered by Cambridge International (CIE) and Edexcel International, and is taken by international-school students worldwide and by some UK independent schools that prefer the IGCSE syllabus to GCSE in particular subjects (often maths and the sciences, where IGCSE retains harder content). Universities treat IGCSE and GCSE as equivalent. Tutoring needs are similar to GCSE — exam-paper technique, content consolidation, board-specific past-paper practice — but the spec differences are real, especially in maths and the sciences. Match the tutor to the actual board (CIE vs Edexcel International) and the year of the spec being taught.

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