Jumeirah Beach Residence stands as one of Dubai's most iconic waterfront addresses as a sweeping promenade of residential towers, restaurants and beach clubs stretching along the Arabian Gulf coastline between Dubai Marina and Bluewaters Island. JBR was one of the biggest single phase residential developments ever built in Dubai, and has become a true melting pot, with internationally minded professionals and their families making it their home and settling in the local community. The Walk, The Beach, and the recently renovated Ain Dubai vista have only made JBR more alluring as a space that has ambition and lifestyle seamlessly integrated. For the academically serious families who call it home, AS and A Level Economics is one of the most strategically powerful qualifications their children can pursue as it offers direct access to Economics, Finance, Business, Politics and Law at top universities across the globe. JBR is less than 10 minutes away from Amourion Training Institute's Jumeirah Lakes Towers center. Dr. Anil Khare answers the questions JBR families bring to us most frequently.

My child finds Economics fascinating as a subject but their written examination answers are consistently underdeveloped. What is missing?

Dr. Anil Khare: Intellectual fascination with Economics and the ability to express economic reasoning in the specific structured form that is required in A Level mark scheme; these are different capabilities and more different than most students and parents realize thereby highly misunderstood. At A Level Economics, examiners will not be marking the economic knowledge or intelligent discussion of current affairs. They are reinforcing a particular sequence of analysis: recognizing the appropriate economic concept, accurately using it in the context given, a logical progression of cause/effect, and a well-reasoned conclusion that assesses the importance of the argument presented. Students who are interested in the subject, but do not present the information in this format, are usually demonstrating some level of understanding, but not in the form of a written answer. We create the right format from the beginning training students to translate their economic thinking into exactly the right format, sequence, and writing that demands examination performance.

 

My child is sitting AS Level Economics as a stepping stone before full A Level. Does AS Economics require a different preparation approach?

Dr. Anil Khare: AS Economics demands a preparation approach that is in some respects more demanding than full A Level preparation, but not in terms of content, as the time frame it covers is quite compressed for AS Economics. AS students need to learn content and examination technique at the same time in one year, whereas the second year of A Level students is used to revise their content and to build up the examination technique, knowledge and skill progressively. The most frequently made error by AS Economics students is to see the first term as a period for content absorption, and examination technique as a topic to address at a later stage. Examination technique is not considered until the paper is weeks away and habits that would enable the student to perform effectively under timed conditions are not established. We embed examination technique in our first session, which includes command word recognition, structuring the evaluation, precise diagrams, and analysis of the data responses and build this into the curriculum alongside content, during the year.

 

My child consistently loses marks on the evaluation sections of longer Economics questions. How do you develop genuine evaluative thinking?

Dr. Anil Khare: The most intellectual demanding skill in A Level Economics is evaluation and the one most directly affecting a student's grade which falls within the higher-grade boundaries is evaluation. Most students make this mistake: evaluation is a recap of what they have just said: a rephrasing of their analysis and a judgement. True Evaluation demands something altogether different, namely, the ability to determine when one argument is more convincing than another, to state the assumptions that support each one, and to state the fact that one's own reasoning is limited. If one student writes that the effectiveness of the monetary policy relies on several factors, then he/she did not evaluate. A student who conveys the idea that, in an economy experiencing a liquidity trap, an interest rate cut is ineffective because the transmission mechanism is lost altogether, and therefore, fiscal policy is the more appropriate policy under the circumstances outlined in the question, has demonstrated the appropriate level of precision and context to the question that are required in top band responses for Economics. This evaluative depth is strengthened by using past exam paper practice, with a thorough mark scheme breakdown following each attempt & motivating students to move from conclusion to genuine conditional judgement consistently.

The AS / A Level Economics Grade that JBR Ambitions deserves!

AS and A Level Economics rewards students who combine conceptual understanding with analytical precision, evaluative sophistication and the examination fluency that consistent high performance demands. For students across Jumeirah Beach Residence ready to develop that standard with specialist support, Amourion Training Institute is where it begins.

 

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