Paper structure

Higher and Ordinary Level

Duration of exam: 2 hours 30 minutes (150 minutes) Total marks for exam: 400 marks

START: 10 minutes should be spent reading, highlighting and picking your questions

Section A: Short questions – 100 marks: 25-30 minutes

You must answer six of the nine short questions asked. Questions 1-5 carry 16 marks

Questions 6-9 carry 17 marks (therefore questions 6-9 must be answered to maximise marks)

Timing: 4-5 minutes per question

Questions based on the entire course

Section B: Long questions – 300 marks: 1 hour 40 minutes

You must answer four of the eight questions asked.

Each question carries 75 marks in total

Timing: Spend 25 minutes per question

Bullet point answers should be used

Note: Generally, in Section B there are three to four microeconomics questions and four to five macroeconomics questions. However, in recent years many questions have been mixed with different topics and some have even contained a combination of micro and macro topics. Hence, students cannot ‘cherry pick’ topics or try to take short cuts when preparing for their exam.

Ideally, you will be left with 10 minutes at the end of the exam to tidy up your paper