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May 2015 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 t he May
2012 report. This subject report also includes a check list that students can use to self -check their
essays.
Many candidates are choosing topics that are not appropriate for economic analysis. The global
economic crisis still continues to generate topics, some of which are appropriate, but many of which
are too broad and unfocused. Macroeconomic essays tend not to be very successful as they are
generally too broad.
It is very often the case that a supervisor writes that a candidate had hoped to gather certain
information but this turned out to be too difficult/impossible. Wherever possible, students should be
urged to ensure that information is available before settling on a research question. If vital
information is not available, students should be advised to amend the research question in order to
match the information that they were able to collect.
There still tends to be an over -reliance on research questions involving market structures. In most
cases, the answer to the question is quite obvious, and so there is little genuine research. The
essays usually present pages and pages of standard, overly -simplistic textbook theory with
superficial and unsubstantiated links to the case study. Students seem to naïve ly assume that all
markets will conform exactly to a market structure. Market structure essays should be discouraged.
Students should be discouraged from undertaking an essay in economics if they are not studying
the course, or if there is not a qualified economics teacher to supervise. It is not fair to expect
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students to teach themselves the economics as well as carry out a research investigation, and the
results are inevitably weak.
As explained below (Criterion C), essays that are based to a large extent on surveys/questionnaires
are often problematic as students are unlikely to have
File information
Subject
Economics
Document type
Subject report
Year
2015
Session
May 2015
Level
Not labelled in the archive
Paper
Not labelled
Examination zone
Not labelled in the archive
Language
English
File size
133 KB
Pages
9
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