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ActEd text in CT7 notes......

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I’m studying this course at the moment and am being slowed down by the huge amount of ActEd padding to the core reading – much of which doesn’t seem to address any syllabus objectives. Can anyone who has studied this course previously advise whether skimming the ActEd text is a good tactic, or should it be treated as material to learn fully alongside the core reading? Opinions?
 
Yes and no!

I found that as the later chapters are all connected to each other, I didn't start to get a complete understanding until I finished reading all the notes. In which case I would recommend getting some understanding of all chapters first (maybe by using the Core Reading and examples).

However I wouldn't skip the extra Acted notes entirely as these do give better explanations to concepts addressed in the core reading.

Finally, I would recommend looking at a few past papers quite early on to see examples how one question pulls in information from different chapters (which is a bit different from the other CT papers where each question comes from a different chapter)

Enjoy!!
 
CT7 was a favourite exam of mine. I wouldn't advise skipping notes but from my experience you can learn the course through Q & A, X - assignments and past exam papers.

There is very rarely any surprises in this exam - so if you can score well on past papers you should pass the real thing easily.

If there were any chapters I wouldn't rush through, they would be the ones on Macro-econmic relationships - since you do have to understand this to be able to work out the likely affects of say rising inflation on short term interest rates and levels of unemployment, etc.
 
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Hi

When I did CT7 i found that i ended up reading the whole course twice, just because there was so much to fit in

smart revise helped a lot too
 
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