This page lists what we actually have for AQA GCSE Economics 8136. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
The subject that is drawn, and a set with nothing drawn in it
Economics at GCSE is unusual among the social sciences in having a diagram at its centre. A pair of axes, two lines, and almost every idea on Paper 1 can be put on it: equilibrium, a shift in demand, a change in supply, the effect of a subsidy, the shape of an elastic curve against an inelastic one.
Across all twenty-five of these activities, there is not one step that asks a student to draw, label, shift or read a diagram. No plotted curve, no labelled axis, no value read off a graph. We checked rather than assumed, and the count is zero.
That is not a small caveat in this subject. A student who can explain in prose why demand falls when price rises, and who freezes when asked to show it, will lose marks in a way the prose fluency hides.
So use these for what they are: a thorough rehearsal of the reasoning and the vocabulary, which is the half of Economics that most revision leaves out because it is harder to write than a diagram worksheet. Then draw the diagrams in your room, where you can watch the pencil.
Where the reasoning is strongest
Three of the topics get genuinely substantial treatment.
The labour market and wage determination, at twenty-four minutes, takes demand and supply of labour through to wage differentials and the difference between gross and net pay, which is the part students most often get wrong in a real-world question.
Interest rates and decisions does the transmission properly: what a rate change does to saving, borrowing, spending and investment, and why the effect is not instant.
Government revenue and taxation covers direct and indirect taxes, progressive against regressive, and what a change does to incentives as well as to revenue.
Alongside them, productivity and economies of scale is the activity most worth setting before a Paper 1 mock, because the confusion between them is reliable and expensive.
Both papers, evenly
All six Paper 1 topics are covered: economic foundations, resource allocation, how prices are determined, production costs revenue and profit, competitive and concentrated markets, and market failure.
All five Paper 2 topics are covered: the national economy, government objectives, how the government manages the economy, international trade and the global economy, and the role of money and financial markets.
An even split matters more in Economics than in most subjects, because departments often mock Paper 1 in the spring and Paper 2 later, and a resource that is strong on micro and thin on macro is only half a revision plan.
The arithmetic, which is better here than on our Business pages
Economics has real calculation in it, and AQA examines it: elasticity, percentage change, index numbers, productivity per worker, profit, and gross against net pay.
Twenty-five of these activities ask the student to type a value rather than choose one, and only ten of those prompts name the operation. Most leave the student to decide that this is an elasticity question before working out the answer, which is the part that carries the marks.
For comparison, our AQA Business activities name the operation in forty-one of forty-five prompts. Same authoring pipeline, very different demand, and Economics came out the better of the two. If your students take both, AQA GCSE Business describes where that set stands.
Using them
The three activities embedded further down are playable here without an account.
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. For how each is meant to be run, see ready-to-run revision activities. To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint and share one link. Everything else, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
AQA's own papers in our past paper archive are free and unaltered, and their diagram questions are the ones this set cannot give you.
What this page does not do
No diagrams, at all. Stated at the top rather than the bottom because in this subject it is the first thing a teacher should know.
No data response practice. AQA's papers hang questions off an extract and a table, and these activities do not reproduce that format.
It is not a scheme of work. For a shape to drop these into, see how to structure a GCSE revision programme.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.