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). If a narrow filter combination doesn't have enough matches, the set widens out to fill the rest — a note above the grid tells you when and how far it had to widen, and it prioritises keeping your chosen question type over your chosen sub-topic when it does.
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.