Edexcel International A Level Economics Tuition Online (IAL)
Pearson Edexcel IAL Economics across all four units: markets, macroeconomic policy, business behaviour and the global economy.
Founder & Head of School, Afterkelas
Afterkelas teaches Pearson Edexcel International A Level Economics online to pre-university students in Malaysia. Tutors teach live in English, 1-to-1 or in small groups, unit by unit, with data-response and essay answers marked to the scheme.
What Edexcel IAL Economics covers
The four units in the order most students sit them.
Units
4 topics- Unit 1 (WEC11): Markets in Action
- Unit 2 (WEC12): Macroeconomic Performance and Policy
- Unit 3 (WEC13): Business Behaviour
- Unit 4 (WEC14): Developments in the Global Economy
Data response and evaluation
Each unit mixes short questions, data response and longer essays. The data questions reward using the extract, quoting figures and changes, while the essays reward analysis followed through and evaluation that weighs arguments and reaches a conclusion. Students who explain one side well and stop lose most of the higher marks.
Tutors teach a structure for evaluation, such as weighing short-run against long-run effects or questioning the size of an impact, and mark practice answers against it.
Diagrams and business behaviour
Diagrams carry much of the analysis: supply and demand, AD/AS, and in Unit 3 the cost and revenue curves of different market structures. Unit 3 is often the hardest unit, because students must link cost and revenue theory to real firms' decisions on price and output.
Tutors build these diagrams step by step and practise drawing them quickly with full labels, so they support the written argument instead of slowing it down.
Who teaches IAL Economics
Tutors are university students and graduates with strong economics results, screened before they teach, and matched to the units and series the student is entered for. An academic advisor asks for a recent essay and the unit schedule.
A question, worked through
A Unit 3-style profit maximisation question from a revenue and cost table. The profit-maximising output is where marginal revenue stops exceeding marginal cost.
Question
A firm's total revenue for outputs of 1 to 5 units is $20, $38, $54, $68 and $80, and its total cost is $15, $25, $33, $45 and $62. Its fixed cost is $5. Find the profit-maximising output and explain it using marginal analysis.
- Profit at each output: 20 − 15 = 5, 38 − 25 = 13, 54 − 33 = 21, 68 − 45 = 23, 80 − 62 = 18. Profit is highest at 4 units, $23.
- Marginal revenue for each extra unit: 20, 18, 16, 14 and 12.
- Marginal cost, starting from the fixed cost of $5: 10, 10, 8, 12 and 17.
- Up to the fourth unit, MR is above MC, so each unit adds to profit. The fifth adds $12 of revenue but $17 of cost, so the firm stops at 4.
Answer Output of 4 units, with profit of $23, where MR still exceeds MC for the last unit produced.
Frequently asked questions
Which IAL Economics unit is the hardest?
Many students find Unit 3, Business Behaviour, the hardest because of its cost and revenue theory. Steady diagram practice and applying the theory to real firms make it manageable.
Should my child resit a unit?
If one unit is well below the others and there is time, often yes, since the best result counts. The tutor looks at where marks were lost before recommending it.
How is it different from Cambridge 9708?
The economics overlaps, but Edexcel uses four units sat across series with resits, while Cambridge examines through multiple-choice and data-response-and-essay papers at the end of each stage.
How much does Edexcel IAL Economics tuition cost?
The fee depends on the format (1-to-1 or a small group), how many classes a week and the tutor, so there is no single figure. Send an academic advisor the units on the student's entry, the series and a recent essay on WhatsApp, and you will get the current packages and a quote, usually within one working day.