07/05/2024
GRADE 12 ECONOMICS P1 JUNE EXAM 2024 SCOPE All Province.
CHAPTER 1; CIRCULAR FLOW (25% Coverage)
-This chapter is super important, it is a gateway to all the others, make sure you know all the concepts.
-It gives us POSSIBLE ESSAY 1 (Discuss in detail the markets within the FOUR-SECTOR model) which you should know for Section C, B & A.
-Questions or concepts you can't go to exam without mastering are:
1. What is circular flow?
2. 4 participants?
3. 2 flows?
4. Leakages & Injections?
5. The 4 markets in circular flow?
6. What is national Accounts ?
7. How many methods to calculate National Accounts?
8. What is a multiplier?
9. How many methods to calculate?
10. How does any leakage affect the multiplier?
-Please note that you have to practice to draw the graph of the multiplier and also explain it.
-Also know the format of the 3 national accounts in detail, including how to calculate, don't leave out the Systems National Account (SNA)
CHAPTER 2; BUSINESS CYCLE (25% Coverage)
-This chapter introduces us fully to the ECONOMICS LANGUAGE, if it is not UPswing it is DOWNswing, if it is not EXogenous it is ENDogenous, if it is not PEAK it is TROUGH, if it is not EMployment it is UNemployment (There is almost always 2 sides of a story in Economics you have to pick a side and then carefully support it with acceptable points)
-This chapter gives us possible essay 2 & 3, POSSIBLE ESSAY 2 (Discuss in detail The new economic paragigm/explain the smoothing of cycles) & POSSIBLE ESSAY 3 (DISCUSS IN DETAIL THE FEATURES UNDERPINNING FORECASTING)
-Some of the questions or content you can't do without is;
1. What is Business cycle?
2. Difference between expansion and contraction?
3. What is the amplitude?
4. Difference between exogenous and endogenous?
5. 4 kinds of business cycle?
6. Can you use fiscal policy & monetary policy to influence the economy?
7. Can you do the Phillips curve with graph?
8. *How about the difference between supply side and demand side?*
9. Do you know the forecasting essay in full?
10. How about the difference between quantitative and quanlitative method of forecasting or research?
-Drawing a full business cycle graph and be able to explain how features such as length & amplitude works is of outmost importance.
-Being able to link the application of fiscal and monetary policy to the graph is a MUST (know how expansionary & contractionary fiscal and monetary policy works)
-The phillips curve graph & the new paradigm graph both use the principles set out in the DEMAND SIDE & SUPPLY SIDE, you have to GO DEEP on this part.
-Business Cycle is the Bone Marrow of the Whole Economics Grade 12, ensure to always use ECONOMIC GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT, INFLATION, & INVESTMENTS in your analysis.
CHAPTER 3; PUBLIC SECTOR (Coverage 25%)
-This chapter gives us possible essay 4 & 5, POSSIBLE ESSAY 4 (Discuss in detail the main objectives of the public sector in the economy) & POSSIBLE ESSAY 5 (Discuss in detail the reason(s) for public sector failure (link them to typical problems experienced through public sector provisioning)
-Some of the questions or content you can't do without is;
1. What are the 3 levels of government and what is a *parastatal*?
2. Give 3 reasons why the public sector is necessary?
3. Can you explain inefficiency & Lack of accountability as problems of public sector provisioning?
4. We have *5 objectives* of the public sector *essay*, you know it?
5. What are the 6 ways in which government gets it's income or revenue?
6. Do you know the difference between *direct & indirect tax* and the explanation of each tax under them such as VAT, paye, green tax, capital gains, company tax, fuel levy, e.t.c?
7. Do you know the effects of *progressive, regressive & regressive tax* on income redistribution?
8. Do you know the laffer curve and also concepts such as *tax evasion and tax avoidance*?
9. The essay of *Public sector failure* which includes headings such as politicians, bureaucracy, apathy e.t.c is important and you are done with it right?
10. You do know the *features of fiscal policy* and that fiscal policy has 3 instruments which are; tax, government spending & borrowing & lending.
-Drawing the laffer curve and being able to correctly interprete the effect of a changed tax rate on tax revenue is super important, also know how motivation to work is derived and discouraged.
-The current budget speech is also super important, you have to know 2 sides of the budget.
-Do not undermine tax, it can be asked in various ways also fiscal policy has to be fully revised here.
CHAPTER 4; FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET (25% Coverage)
-Most educators and learners do not want anything to do with this chapter, they literally run for their lives and by doing so their exam is already just 75% instead of 100% which is so unfair.
-The balance of payments, terms of trade and the foreign exchange market graphs are the main reasons why teachers and learners play snake and ladder in this chapter 4, a very dangerous game for a grade 12 to play.
-The last essay is from this chapter and it is quite popular in exam, POSSIBLE ESSAY 6 OF 6 for paper 1 JUNE Exam (Discuss in detail the reasons for international trade)
-Some of the questions or content you can't do without;
1. It is very important to know what *international trade* is and it's *effect on the economy*
2. Do you know how to define the *exchange rate & the foreign exchange market*?
3. *Globalisation is super important* and anything around it.
4. A very important essay which is *The reasons for international trade* which can be divided into *demand reasons & supply reasons* is in your mind right?
5. You know how to define *Balance of payments* and the *3 accounts of balance of payments*? You also know the *errors & omissions & how to calculate trade balance* right?
6. You know what is a *disequilibrium or deficit* in the balance of payments right? And that there is something called *corrections of balance of payment deficit by SARB or GOVERNMENT* right?
7. You know the difference between, *appreciation & revaluation* or the difference between *devaluation & depreciation* right?
8. Can you work on *the graph of the foreign exchange market*? And prove how depreciation & appreciation works?
9. How about the *3 exchange rate system*, from *fixed exchange rate to flexible & managed exchange rate system*?
10. Can you define *the terms of trade*? How about the formula to calculate *terms of trade*?
-Balance of payment is a key to unlock even the next chapters, atleast know what it is and how to correct it.
-To easily master the foreign exchange market graphs use the principle of injection and leakages with/without mentioning them e.g if more People from our home South Africa are buying in USA our Rand will depreciate (decrease in value) this will be shown in the graph by a shift of the demand curve to the right if the exchange rate is plotted as R/$ on the Y-axis and quantity of dollars on the X-axis, this means that you will now need more Rands to get just 1 dollar.,
-The specialist is a master of this chapter 4 content, I shall help you unpack it, this is the end for now.
PLEASE REMEMBER, FOR GRADE 12
SECTION A
Compulsory.
SECTION B
Choose 2 questions out of 3.
SECTION C
Choose 1 Essay out of 2 asked essays which will come from the 6 possible essays I mentioned above.
The total marks for your paper 1 is 150 marks.