Tag: Ieo Preparation
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What the IEO Is Testing Now: A Topic Drift Map from 2024 to 2026
Which IEO topics are stable, which are growing, and which have faded across 2024 to 2026 - plus the rule that stops you over-fitting to last year's paper.
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The 2026 IEO Paper Changed Shape: A Merged Multiple-Choice Paper and Open Questions That Now Demand Maths
Our coaches' reading of the 2026 round: one merged 40-question multiple-choice paper where there had been two, and four of five open questions turning on calculation. What that changes for your prep.
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From IB, AP and A-Level Economics to the IEO: What Your School Syllabus Leaves Out
IB, AP and A-Level Economics each cover part of what the IEO tests. Here is the honest delta for each course, and how to close it before your round.
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The IEO Reading List: What to Actually Study to Reach Economics-Olympiad Depth
What should you actually read for the IEO? A four-shelf self-study roadmap of textbooks, courses, current affairs, and problem practice, and how to turn reading into recall.
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Macroeconomics on the IEO: The Models and Policy Debates That Come Up Most
Macroeconomics is half of any economics olympiad. Here is the macro toolkit the IEO draws on, how it surfaces across the three parts, and where students lose marks.
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Financial Literacy on the IEO: The Half That Students Underrate
The IEO tests finance as well as microeconomics. Here is what the financial-literacy strand covers and why Greater China students who drill supply-and-demand still drop marks on it.
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Microeconomics on the IEO: The Concepts That Come Up Most
The microeconomics that recurs across IEO MCQ, open questions and the business case — supply and demand, elasticity, costs, market structures, welfare, externalities and game theory — and why to master it first.
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The IEO Business Case: How to Build and Deliver a Winning Team Presentation
A repeatable method for the IEO team business case — read the case, frame the problem, analyse with economics, recommend, and defend in English before the judges.