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BSEH SS Economics study plan

BSEH SS Economics · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

National Income and Related Aggregates & Introduction to Economics and Basic Concepts

  • Define and distinguish the three methods of measuring national income (product/value added, income, expenditure) and state which items are excluded from each

  • Compute GDP at market price, GNP, NNP at factor cost, and per capita income from a given set of numerical data without reference notes

  • Classify 20 given transactions as final vs intermediate goods and as factor vs transfer income, justifying each classification in one line

  • Explain the circular flow of income in a two-sector economy and identify the leakages and injections that break the flow

Your checkpoint

A one-page formula sheet plus 15 self-solved numerical problems on national income aggregates with worked solutions, scored against a key you build yourself

Week 2

National Income and Related Aggregates & Determination of Income and Employment

  • Derive the consumption function, saving function, and the relationship between APC, APS, MPC, and MPS from a numerical schedule

  • Calculate the equilibrium level of income using both the aggregate demand-aggregate supply approach and the saving-investment approach

  • Compute the investment multiplier and the effect of a change in autonomous investment on equilibrium income

  • Distinguish inflationary and deflationary gaps and state the fiscal correction for each

Your checkpoint

A worked problem set of 12 numericals covering equilibrium income, multiplier, and gaps, with a short note on the two approaches to equilibrium

Week 3

Consumer Behaviour and Demand & Producer Behaviour and Supply

  • State and illustrate the law of demand, and distinguish movement along a demand curve from a shift of the curve using six concrete examples

  • Compute price elasticity of demand using the percentage and total expenditure methods, and classify goods as elastic, inelastic, or unitary

  • Explain the law of variable proportions with a total product, marginal product, and average product schedule, identifying the three stages

  • Distinguish fixed and variable costs and compute TC, TFC, TVC, AC, AVC, MC, and AFC from a cost schedule

  • Derive the supply curve of a firm under perfect competition from its marginal cost curve above minimum AVC

Your checkpoint

Two hand-drawn schedules and curves (elasticity cases and the three stages of production) plus 10 solved elasticity and cost numericals

Week 4

Forms of Market and Price Determination & Consumer Behaviour and Demand

  • Compare the four market forms on number of sellers, product differentiation, entry barriers, price control, and shape of the firm's demand curve

  • Explain how a firm under perfect competition reaches short-run equilibrium using MR = MC, and distinguish normal profit, supernormal profit, and loss situations

  • Describe price determination under simple monopoly and explain why a monopoly faces a downward-sloping demand curve

  • Explain consumer's surplus and indifference curve basics, including the properties of indifference curves and the budget line

  • Analyse how a price ceiling or price floor affects market equilibrium in a supplied scenario

Your checkpoint

A comparison matrix of the four market forms plus 8 solved equilibrium numericals for a competitive firm, with each answer showing the MR = MC check

Week 5

Money and Banking & Determination of Income and Employment

  • Define money and explain its primary and secondary functions with one Indian example for each

  • Compute the money multiplier and explain the credit creation process of commercial banks using a numerical example

  • Describe the functions of the central bank, and distinguish quantitative from qualitative instruments of credit control

  • Explain the transaction, precautionary, and speculative motives for holding money and derive the liquidity preference curve

  • Work through the effect of an open market operation on reserves, credit, and aggregate demand

Your checkpoint

A 400-word explainer on credit creation with a fully worked numerical deposit-expansion example, plus a table classifying eight RBI instruments as quantitative or qualitative

Week 6

Government Budget and the Economy & Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate

  • Classify 15 given government receipts and expenditures as revenue or capital, and as plan or non-plan, defending each classification

  • Compute revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, and primary deficit from a budget data set and interpret what each signals

  • Explain the objectives of government budget and distinguish deficit financing from crowdfunding of deficits

  • Record 12 given international transactions in the current and capital accounts of the balance of payments and compute the balance

  • Distinguish fixed and flexible exchange rates, and explain appreciation, depreciation, devaluation, and revaluation with numerical examples

  • Explain managed floating and the role of RBI intervention in the foreign exchange market

Your checkpoint

A solved budget numerical (all three deficits) and a solved BoP table with 12 entries, each accompanied by a two-line interpretation

Week 7

Development Experience of India and Economic Reforms & Current Economic Issues and Statistical Analysis

  • Outline the major features of the Indian economy on the eve of independence and the goals of five-year plans

  • Summarise the 1991 economic reforms across liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation, naming at least two specific policy measures for each

  • Evaluate the effects of reforms on agriculture, industry, trade, and foreign investment using specific indicators

  • Interpret given statistical data on growth, inflation, poverty, or unemployment and state two limitations of the data source

  • Explain the current debate on disinvestment, GST, or employment patterns, separating evidence from opinion

Your checkpoint

A one-page data interpretation exercise: three charts or tables summarised in under 300 words with two stated limitations of each source

Week 8

Introduction to Economics and Basic Concepts & Forms of Market and Price Determination & National Income and Related Aggregates & Money and Banking & Determination of Income and Employment & Government Budget and the Economy & Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate

  • Complete two full-length timed mock tests under exam conditions and record the score for each domain

  • Re-derive from memory the national income identities, multiplier formula, money multiplier, and the three deficit definitions

  • Rewrite in your own words the five concepts you scored lowest on, using a fresh numerical example for each

  • Review the error log from all seven prior weeks and confirm every flagged item is resolved or marked for final revision

Your checkpoint

A scored mock-test report with a domain-wise accuracy table and a one-page final revision sheet of the ten weakest concepts

Milestones

Week 2: Solve three unseen national income numericals and two equilibrium income numericals at 80% or better without notes, and state the multiplier formula from memory

Week 4: Explain aloud, in under five minutes, why a perfectly competitive firm's demand curve is horizontal while a monopoly's slopes downward, and compute elasticity and cost figures correctly on five fresh problems

Week 6: Compute all three budget deficits and the BoP balance from unseen data with no formula sheet, and classify eight RBI credit-control tools correctly

Week 8: Score at least 70% on both timed mocks with no domain below 60% accuracy, and show a completed error log with every flagged concept resolved