Pearson Economics 12: Australia in the Global Economy Workbook, 1st edition

Pearson Economics 12: Australia in the Global Economy Workbook 12th Edition is an active learning guide to accompany the best-selling text Pearson Economics 12: Australia in the Global Economy. It allows students to practise their understanding of course content as they learn, with up-to-date exam-style multiple choice and short answer questions. It also gives teachers valuable extension activities, skills revision, independent research tasks and classroom exercises that can help challenge students to deepen their understanding.

The 12th edition features a new selection of questions in each chapter reflecting the requirements of the New South Wales Year 12 Economics course. The questions have been updated to capture the latest developments in Australia and the global economy, including the challenges to globalisation, efforts to reduce inflation, the impact of the war in Ukraine, and policy changes under the Albanese government.

The 12th edition includes a new Skills Review chapter, focused on analysis, synthesis and evaluation of economic information. In addition, there are three practice exam papers – the first focusing on topics 1 and 2, the second on the full syllabus content and the third targeted towards advanced revision of the course. This gives students the opportunity to test themselves for the half-yearly, trials and final exams. The selection of short answer and independent research exercises have been fully updated to reflect trends in exam questions.

Each chapter of the workbook includes: