WACE Economics ATAR case studies

The WACE Economics ATAR course is a Western Australian senior-secondary course for Year 11 and Year 12 students working toward the Western Australian Certificate of Education and an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank. It suits students who want a structured, analytical social science that combines economic theory with real-world Australian and global policy issues, and who are prepared to write extended responses rather than rely on recall alone. The syllabus is organised around two assessment domains: Economics knowledge and understanding, and Economics inquiry, reasoning and interpretation, each weighted at 50 per cent. In practice this means you are assessed as much on how you interpret data, apply models to unfamiliar scenarios and evaluate policy as on whether you can define terms. The WACE Economics ATAR case studies are 5 cases and about 2,441 words.