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A-Level(General Certificate of Education Advanced Level ),英国高中课程,是英国全民课程体系,是英国普通中等教育证书考试高级水平课程,也是英国学生的大学入学考试课程。今天小编为大家带来的是关于Alevel经济考试备考重点,经济是Alevel众多科目中的其中之一,也是大家不可忽略的部分,下面就和小编一起看看吧,如何取得Alevel经济考试高分。

Knowledge and Content
对于AS的学生而言,课程的内容相对比较有限,出现在历年考试中的考点也就更为有限 (different economic system, market - demand and supply, elasticity, market failure & elasticity, production possibility curve & economic growth, exchange rate & term of trade, tax & subsidy, etc),所以考生需要从里到外了解这些知识点。然而对于A2的考生来说,出了对于课本知识的了解之外,还需要持续吸收并且使用最新的世界经济案例,甚至是数据来获得批卷老师的青睐并且给你的考试加分。
Structure
经济论文的写作和中文的作文有比较大的不同,这里不能天马行空想到哪里写到哪里,因为A Level考试中的毕竟是academic writing,所以结构就显得尤为重要。
我们不妨将一片结构完整的essay想象成为一个triple cheese burger,而顶层的面包自然就是intro/define important definition。中间的每一层肉片都是你的application和analysis,而肉片和肉片之间的芝士、蔬菜就是 ‘chain of reasoning’。没有了肉片这个汉堡就会索然无味,但是没有了芝士与蔬菜,这个汉堡也会变的难以下咽。
在这里,考官希望能看见你列举出你的ideas,并且顺着这些ideas给出相关联的课本概念、个人知识储备、以及对于文章的饮用。最底层的面包应该是你对于之前那些ideas的conclusion和evaluation。
Evaluation
这是希望在经济考试中取得A的同学最后需要攻克的一块阵地。Evaluation requires you to adopt a balance approach, to reason out and explain your arguments and to demonstrate an awareness of different points of view (aka critical thinking)。通过这个关于Evaluation的诠释不难看出在这里考生需要拥有足够的辩证思维能力,客观平衡的去分析问题,并且指出自己之前回答的疏忽和不足。下面,为了能更直观的帮助考生掌握evaluation的能力,我们提出几点帮助意见:
Wider context and bigger picture。无论是micro还是macro的考试,在回答中都需要放开眼界去看大局。例:分析‘China’s increasingly developed workforce will result in improved standard of living for its citizens’。随着workforce的发展,labour productivity会增强,进而之带来GDP的提高和整体national income和living standard的增加,这是绝大多数考生都能答出的,但是从全局上还有什么further implication呢。
‘ As employment levels continue to rise, the pool of available workers may become increasingly scarce. As a result the bargaining strength of workers may rise such that they demand not only higher wages but also improvement in non-pecuniary factors such as better health and safety regulation. Should these costs begin to rise, China will risk losing its principal comparative advantage of low cost labour, thus weaken its position in international trading’
Equality。从公平性的角度出发,考虑不同行为人是否因为某种经济决策而受到影响。例如:分析 ‘Impact of higher interest rates on the distribution of income’。从monetary policy的角度出发,大家不难得出一个结论:high interest rate increase MPS and discourage household or business from applying loan from financial market due to increased cost of borrowing。然而除了这样一条chain of reasoning,考生依然需要考虑到对于其他stakeholders的影响。
‘Some people may benefit from a rise in interest rates. Savers, and in particular, pensioners and others who are reliant on fixed income (这里考察到了对于现实经济信息的了解) will benefit from increased returns on their savings. Accordingly, their disposable income will rise.’
Time。在evaluation环节,需要考虑到不同时间周期对于某种经济决策的影响,以及长短期内会产生的不同后果,这点尤为重要。例如:分析 ‘supply side policy’。在说完supply side policy的定义、实施手段、与demand side policy的区别,以及对于economic growth所产生的影响,画完相应的AS/AD图像之后,还需要考虑到长期和短期的不同。
‘In theory, government sponsored retaining programs should equip the country’s workforce with better skills and in turn lead to the economy becoming more efficient and productive and so shifting the LRAS to the right. However, as well as there being no guarantee of increased efficiency and productivity, it should also be recognized that such policies will only have an effect (if any) in the long run and will not translate into quick fix which the economy so desperately needs at present’
上面的三种方法,我们可以将其总结为WET Evaluation Approach,但是除此以外,还有很多提高evaluation有效性和合理性的手段。例如考虑到影响范围(scope of consequence),优先顺序(prioritization),影响大小(scale and magnitude),不考虑“ceteris paribus”会发生什么,不同学派的思考(schools of thoughts)等等。
以上就是小编为大家带来的关于Alevel考试备考技巧,希望能够帮助大家更好的备考,在备考中除了经济课程,其他的课程也需要大家同等对待,切记不可偏科哦。想要获取更多Alevel考试报名等更多信息,大家可以线上咨询客服哦!最后小编预祝大家能考取心中满意成绩。

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