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May 2012 extended essay reports
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ECONOMICS
Overall grade boundaries
Grade: E D C B A
Mark range: 0 - 7 8 - 15 16 - 22 23 - 28 29 - 36
The range and suitability of the work submitted
Please be aware that this subject report contains much of the same information that was in
the 2009 reports. This subject report also includes the check -list that students can use to self -
check their essays.
Many candidates are choosing appropriate topics that are suitable for economic analysis. The
global economic crisis has generated a huge number o f topics, some of which are
appropriate, but many of which have been too broad and unfocused. Unless narrowed down
to a particular region, macroeconomic topics are problematic as they also tend to be too
broad.
All too often, a supervisor‟s report will not e that a student had expected to get certain
information but had not been successful. Wherever possible, students should be urged to
ensure that information is available before settling on a research question. If vital information
is not available, then st udents should be advised to amend their question to match the
information that they were able to collect.
In some centres, there has been an over -reliance on research questions involving market
structures. Properly done, these can be good essays, but there is a real danger of presenting
pages and pages of standard textbook economic theory, with superficial and unsubstantiated
links to the case study.
Candidate performance against each criterion
Criterion A: research question
Successful candidates chose research questions that were sufficiently narrow and based on a
topic for which there was sufficient information available.
Unsuitable approaches included:
essays on a historical topic ; there is no hard and fast rule on this, but students should
confine their topics to something that has taken place in the recent past.
essays on a future event ; t hese are problematic as the conclusions are largely
hypothetical or speculative.
May 2012 extended essay reports Economics
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essays on the performance of the whole economy ; the global financial crisis has
generated a flurry of
File information
Subject
Economics
Document type
Subject report
Year
2012
Session
May 2012
Level
Not labelled in the archive
Paper
Not labelled
Examination zone
Not labelled in the archive
Language
English
File size
159 KB
Pages
7
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