Offer-Holder Pack
Start your economics degree ready for the maths and the teaching, or start the first-year course ahead of term.
- For Cambridge, Oxford, LSE and UCL offer holders
- Set to your university’s first-year course
- Designed by a Cambridge economist
Choose your pack
Ready covers what you need to start well. Ahead adds the first-year course itself.
Offer-Holder Pack: Ready
For students who want to arrive confident and keep up from week one.
- The maths bridge: ten sections from A-level to first-year maths, each tied to the economics it supports
- 148 self-test questions with worked answers
- Your first year, by university: the papers, how teaching works, what supervisions, tutorials and classes expect
- Reading by first-year paper, with what each book is for
Offer-Holder Pack: Ahead
For students who want to start the first-year course before term.
Coming in 2027Planned price. Ready buyers upgrade for the difference.
Planned contents
- Primers on the first-term micro, macro and quantitative methods topics for your university’s course
- Problem sets in the style of supervisions, tutorials and classes, with full worked answers
- A plan for what to have done before your first supervision or class
- Everything in Ready
The pack opens straight after payment. If the student is under 18, a parent or guardian should make the purchase. Already bought? Sign in.
The maths bridge
Ten sections in both packs. Pick your university when you open the pack and it marks the sections your course uses most.
- 1.1Functions and graphsDemand, supply and cost functions; solving for market equilibrium
- 1.2Powers, logs and growthGrowth rates and compounding
- 1.3Sequences, series and present valueDiscounting, NPV and the multiplier
- 1.4DifferentiationMarginal cost and revenue, diminishing returns, elasticity
- 1.5Optimisation with one variableProfit maximisation and monopoly pricing
- 1.6Partial derivativesMarginal products and marginal utility with two inputs or goods
- 1.7Constrained optimisationConsumer choice and cost minimisation with the Lagrangian
- 1.8IntegrationConsumer surplus, deadweight loss and continuous discounting
- 1.9Matrices and linear systemsSolving linear economic models
- 1.10Probability and statisticsConfidence intervals, hypothesis tests and regression
A self-test from section 1.4
A theatre faces demand with elasticity −0.6 at its current price. Managers want more revenue. Should they raise or lower the price? Roughly how much does revenue change if price rises by 5%?
Show the worked answer
Demand is inelastic, so they should raise the price.
Quantity falls by about 0.6 × 5% = 3%. Revenue changes by about 5% − 3% = 2%, a rise. Exactly, with constant elasticity: 1.050.4 − 1 ≈ 1.97%.
Your first year, by university
The first-year papers or courses at Cambridge, Oxford (E&M and PPE), LSE and UCL, how teaching works, and what supervisions, tutorials and classes expect. Each course fact is dated and linked to the official page.
Reading by paper
What to read before term for each first-year paper or course, and what each book is for, so the summer goes on the right books.
Practice that checks itself
A “Try it” question every few paragraphs and a harder set at the end of each section, all with worked answers, so you know when to move on.
From offer to first week
The months between an offer and the first supervision or class are the time to close the gap.
- Oxford decisions
- Cambridge decisions
- LSE and UCL offers
- Term starts
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One email when the Ahead pack is ready, and nothing else.
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Questions
I didn’t take Further Maths. Is Ready for me?
Yes. The maths bridge starts from A-level Maths and builds to the level first-year economics courses use, with a self-test every few paragraphs.
My university sends its own preparation. Do I still need this?
Use both. Universities often point to a workbook or a reading list. This pack ties every maths topic to the economics it supports, gives worked answers to every question, and sets out how your course is taught.
My university isn’t listed.
The maths bridge suits any economics degree. The course sections cover Cambridge, Oxford (E&M and PPE), LSE and UCL.
When should I start?
Any time after your offer. Most students work through it over the spring and summer, a section at a time.
Who buys it?
Students and parents. If the student is under 18, a parent or guardian should make the purchase; the student uses the pack on their own account.
Course facts are checked against official university pages and dated; universities can change courses, so the official page always takes priority.