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A Life in Money | Simulation | CambridgeOCR Level 3 Award in Personal Finance

Level:
Level 3 Award
Board:
OCR

Last updated 6 Aug 2026

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Try this mini personal finance simulation activity to help deliver the CambridgeOCR Level 3 Award in Personal Finance.

A Life in Money is a free interactive simulation that ties everything together. Students live five key moments, at eighteen, twenty-five, thirty-five, fifty and sixty-five, making the big calls on accounts, saving, pensions, mortgages and protection, then face a curveball in mid-life and find out whether earlier choices left a cushion. At sixty-five the reveal shows the retirement and home they built. It is the perfect capstone, pulling together saving, borrowing, pensions and insurance into one story and showing how decisions that felt tiny at twenty-five echo for decades. About fifteen minutes, any device, and genuinely thought-provoking.

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