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AQA A Level Economics past papers

18 AQA A Level Economics papers from 2020 to 2025, 18 with a mark scheme and 14 with an examiners' report. Every link opens the document on AQA's own website; we list them in one place and show which topics each series tested.

Which topics come up most

The topics that have carried the most marks across the AQA A Level Economics papers we have tagged question by question. Topics with a revision guide link to it.

Topic	Questions	Marks	Papers
Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly	11	486	5 of 11
Trade Agreements, Trading Blocs and Globalisation	3	241	3 of 11
Exchange Rate Systems and the Determination of Floating Rates	2	240	2 of 11
Productive, Allocative, Dynamic and X-Efficiency	2	240	2 of 11
Market failure and government intervention	8	192	4 of 11
Consumer and Producer Surplus and the Incidence of Indirect Taxes	2	192	2 of 11
Externalities: Negative and Positive Production and Consumption Effects	9	148	4 of 11
The Balance of Payments: Causes and Correction of Disequilibrium	2	145	2 of 11
The Effects of Exchange Rate Changes on Trade and the Macroeconomy	2	145	1 of 11
Tradable Pollution Permits, Regulation and Government Failure	2	145	1 of 11
Price determination in a competitive market	4	127	3 of 11
Conflicts and Trade-Offs Between Macroeconomic Objectives	3	125	3 of 11
Government Intervention: Indirect Taxes, Subsidies and Price Controls	3	122	3 of 11
Public Goods and the Free-Rider Problem	2	121	2 of 11
Asymmetric Information, Merit Goods and Demerit Goods	1	120	1 of 11

Counted from our own question-by-question tagging of 11 papers. A question that tests two topics counts towards both, so the marks column ranks topics rather than adding up to a paper total. Showing the top 15 of 50 topics.

All AQA A Level Economics papers by year

June 2025

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Markets and Market Failure	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: National and International Economy	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Economic Principles and Issues	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report

June 2024

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Markets and Market Failure	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: National and International Economy	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Economic Principles and Issues	Question paper Mark scheme Insert

June 2023

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Markets and Market Failure	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: National and International Economy	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Economic Principles and Issues	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report

June 2022

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Markets and Market Failure	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: National and International Economy	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Economic Principles and Issues	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report

November 2021

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Markets and Market Failure	Question paper Mark scheme
Paper 2: National and International Economy	Question paper Mark scheme
Paper 3: Economic Principles and Issues	Question paper Mark scheme Insert

November 2020

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Markets and Market Failure	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: National and International Economy	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Economic Principles and Issues	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report

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