Examiner Secrets

How A-Level Economics is actually marked — and the ten mistakes examiners flagged again and again in 2025.

Two students can know the same economics and get very different grades. The difference is technique. This second edition is built directly from Pearson's June 2025 examiner reports, so every tip comes from what examiners actually said.

What's inside:

• How marks split between KAA and evaluation for every question type, 5 to 25 marks
• The 25-mark levels explained in plain English
• The 10 mistakes from the 2025 examiner reports, with the examiners' own words and the fix for each
• Command words decoded: Explain, Examine, Assess, Discuss, Evaluate
• 6 evaluation tools with sentence starters — and why a counter-argument isn't evaluation
• Mid-band vs top-band rewrites, phrases that score, timing plan and a final checklist

For: anyone who knows the content but keeps landing in the middle band.