Economics · Micro & Macro
A bank of quick, low-stakes starter questions for A-level Economics, sorted by unit and sub-topic. It's not tied to a particular exam board — the topics and content are the core theory that overlaps closely across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and equivalents. Six question types, each testing a genuinely different move: True/False (verify a claim), Spot the Mistake (find and correct an error), Quick Fire Definition (precise recall), Correct the Calculation (find and fix a numerical error), and two that are easy to confuse but deliberately different — see below.
Odd One Out is deliberately contestable: students pick which of four items doesn't belong and have to justify the classification — a defensible case can sometimes be made for more than one answer, and that's the point. It's a reasoning/argument exercise, not a lookup.
Which Doesn't Fit has exactly one diagnostically correct answer, turning on a precise conceptual or spec distinction. It's not up for debate — it tests whether a student has nailed a specific boundary (e.g. what's actually in a named model, or what a term does and doesn't include).
Filter by unit, sub-topic and/or question type, then hit Generate 10, Generate 5, or Generate 3 to pull a random set onto the grid — the same way you'd fill boxes on a starter slide. Don't like one? Use ↻ to reroll it, or Pick to search the bank for something specific. Hit Present to go fullscreen for the board (tap a card to check the answer, or Zoom to enlarge one for reading), or Print for a paper starter sheet (tick the answers box first if you want a marking key). The set only ever uses questions that match your filters. If a narrow combination (e.g. one sub-topic and one question type) has fewer questions than you asked for, you get a shorter set and a Fill from related topics button — nothing outside your filters is added unless you click it. When you do, it fills from earlier-taught sub-topics in the same unit first and keeps your chosen question type.
Type a class (e.g. 12B) in the bar under the filters. Once you've actually used a set with the class, click Mark as used (above the cards, or top-right in Present mode) to log it — previewing or printing on its own doesn't count, and the last mark can be undone. After that, Generate/↻ then prefer questions that class hasn't seen within the Avoid repeats window. A repeat is only used when your filters have nothing fresh left, and the note above the grid says so. Cards show when they were last used. History is stored in this browser only.
Save a set by name to reload it later, or Copy link — the current set is always in the page address, so refreshing keeps it and a link opens the same questions for a colleague.
This sits alongside the Pit Stop Starters Y13 Macro/Micro tool (interleaved lesson/week/month/year retrieval). Use Pit Stop for spaced recall of specific content you've chosen in advance; use the Starter Bank for a quick randomised set or focused single-topic drilling.