Case Study Skills: An Overview

The case study paper is designed to test your ability to apply economic theory to a given set of data or
information in 3 forms:
1. Textual (extracts)
2. Numerical (tables)
3. Visual (graphs)
In learning & developing skills to score well for case study there are 2 areas of focus:
A. Reading skills
B. Answering skills
A typical breakdown of the process and time allocation for planning and answering case questions under
exam conditions:
Process
Aims and objectives
Recommended
Total time
time allocation
allocated per
case
Scan and Annotate Data
Read to:
(SA)
1. Gain a general
understanding of the data
8 min
2. Get an idea of the case study
90 min
questions
Focus and Answer
Questions
(FA)

Read the data with the purpose

of answering the questions.

The approach used is summed up as SAFA

SA Scan and Annotate the data
FA Focus and Answer the questions

82 min