I'll just reflect on the whole exam now and come up with a prediction on a Band 6 cut off for the course....
For the multiple choice, not only you needed a very clear concept in your head, but you also needed to choose the best answer. Not only did you need to know your stuff, but you also had to APPLY the stuff in what you've learnt in this year and choose what seems to be most suitable. As mentioned 15+ would be a good mark for this set of MCQs, because at the start of Question 1, the answer is obvious, but it gives you that sense of skepticism.
For the short answers, mixed feelings to be honest. You might argue globalisation to be straight forward, but bilateral agreement? It could cause so many different effects on an economy which is disadvantageous. I must admit the current account one is easy and straight forward though, then labour policy, yes straight forward but again unclear in some of the questions. The last one, environmental, especially the 5 mark one is also ambiguous to be honest. For those who say that short answers was piss easy, I actually disagree, the short answers are ambiguous this year, compared against the ones' in the previous years.
For the essays, the stimulus ones had a mix and turn, fiscal with inequality and yes monetary links well with inflation, but unemployment? Eh? Shouldn't they flip each other around. Unclear questions, and again throwing away the significance of prepared answers, you cannot write whatever you want in this easy, you'd suffer a lot.
For 27 and 28, 27 I think is straight forward but I didn't revise for microeconomic policy. Question 28 is clear that it is a trick, it's not only about appreciation, but also about vice versa... so again, catching people who jump into the questions without thinking, it's not about current economic conditions. It's about theories and conceptualising yourself WITH the question, not about how European has a sovereign debt crisis, but you actually need to analysis the situations hypothetically.
In my opinion, hard exam, not straight forward and also tricky. They are trying to minimise the possibility for someone to use prepared essay responses in this exam... I see in the coming years that they'd also scrape out the case study.
In my very honest opinion, cut off would be lower than last year, that's definite. I would say around 75-78. Because if you reflect again on the exam, it actually was tricky and not that totally easy. But on the bright light, no more economics, no more guessing, back into something with much more grounding. History and English.