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Final preparations for Unit 4 macro

Penny Brooks

17th June 2015

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Year 13 students who are in the final stages of preparation for Unit 4 papers will know that they must carry a range of evidence about the UK and the global economy with them in their head as they go in to the exam. They could do a lot worse than spend half an hour or so to read through some of Ian Stewart's brilliant Deloitte Monday Briefings. These are a series of very clear articles, very accessible for students, which analyse current data and give great background material. As an examiner I would be very happy to read essays which suggested that a student was familiar with this kind of analysis.

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Penny Brooks

Formerly Head of Business and Economics and now Economics teacher, Business and Economics blogger and presenter for Tutor2u, and private tutor

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