The foundations, done properly
The course covers core microeconomics and macroeconomics, mapped onto the first year of A-Level Economics. Not enrichment for its own sake — the material you are about to be assessed on, from people who assess it.
A-Level Fast Track · 16–20 August 2027
A five-day summer course for students moving into Year 12 — taught by practising A-Level Economics teachers, and built so that everything you learn on the course gets used before you leave.
The A-Level Fast Track
Most students meet economics for the first time in September and spend a term working out what the subject actually wants from them. This course gets that out of the way, and puts something solid underneath everything that follows.
The course covers core microeconomics and macroeconomics, mapped onto the first year of A-Level Economics. Not enrichment for its own sake — the material you are about to be assessed on, from people who assess it.
Students who see how the machine works stop memorising and start reasoning. We build the intuition first, then layer the exam technique on top of a picture that already makes sense.
Students arrive in September already knowing the vocabulary, the diagrams and the shape of the subject — and having already argued a position in front of a room.
How the week works
The course is built on two things that rarely sit together well: genuine direct teaching from people who teach this specification for a living, and structured activity-based learning that puts every idea to use the same day it lands.
Direct instruction on the core micro and macro that the first year of A-Level Economics rests on — sequenced so each idea depends on the one before it, and delivered by practising teachers rather than read off a slide.
Students work in small teams on a challenge that runs the length of the course. Each new concept arrives as something the team actually needs, which is a very different experience from being told to remember it.
The week closes with each team presenting what they have produced and justifying the decisions behind it, under questions. Evaluation under pressure is precisely what the top grades test.
Both microeconomics and macroeconomics are covered across the five days. Full course detail is shared with families once a place on the course is confirmed.
The pathway
EconXL is building a course at each of the three moments where the right week makes the most difference. The Fast Track is the first, and it is the one open now.
Year 11 → Year 12
The foundation course. Everything the next two years get built on, established before the first lesson of Year 12.
Enrolling · 16–20 August 2027
Year 12 → Year 13
The step-up course for A2. Deeper analysis, specialist micro and macro strands, and the evaluation the second year genuinely demands.
In the pipeline
Year 13 · before finals
The final revision course. Exam technique, past-paper work and targeted revision in the weeks that count for the most.
In the pipeline
Who runs the week
Two kinds of people in the room, doing two different jobs — because the person best placed to teach the specification is rarely the person best placed to tell you what the first term of Year 12 actually feels like.
Every session on the course is planned and led by a teacher who teaches A-Level Economics day to day and marks the specification. They set the content, run the teaching, and assess the final presentations.
Meet the educators →Each team works alongside an assistant — a former student, or an economics undergraduate home for the summer. They sat these exams within the last few years, so they can say what actually worked, and answer the question every Year 11 wants to ask: what is studying economics at university really like?
Assistants support teams. They do not teach sessions, and they are never the only adult with a group.
A-Level Fast Track · Summer 2027
No payment and no commitment. Enquiries are answered personally, and early enquirers are offered places on the course — and the early rate — before it opens publicly.
Places are capped so teams stay small. Enquiries are answered in the order they arrive.
A-Level Fast Track (AFT)
Five-day course · Year 11 into Year 12 · 16–20 August 2027