Why Crown Economics

Two top-scorers and a wealth of experience. We built the tutoring we wished we'd had.

Photograph — the two tutors

Tim & James, co-founders

A compass held against a sunset

Disrupting rote-learning since 2024

During our own HSC year we noticed something: the students scoring 20/20 on their essays were not the ones who had memorised the most textbook definitions. They were the ones who could take this month’s RBA decision and turn it into an argument.

So we started Crown Economics to teach exactly that. Every framework we hand out is one we used ourselves. Every set of notes is rewritten each term against the current domestic and global economy, not reprinted from a file that has been sitting on a hard drive since 2019.

What we hold ourselves to

Three commitments that shape every class, every set of notes and every piece of feedback.

Feedback inside 48 hours

Every essay comes back marked within 48 hours, so you can fix your mistakes before the next one rather than repeating them.

Notes rewritten every term

Contemporary evidence has a shelf life. Ours is refreshed against the current data before every single term.

Small rooms, real answers

Class sizes stay small on purpose, so there is always time to ask the question you are actually stuck on.

Meet the tutors

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Tim

Head tutor

99.00 ATAR · 97 in HSC Economics

I got 97 in HSC Economics, but my first essays came back with 13s and 14s. What changed wasn't more content. I learned to build every paragraph around current statistics, contemporary economic theory and a clear judgement. Now I mark most of our students' essays each week and show them how to make the same jump.

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James

Assistant tutor

99.50 ATAR · 8th in State Economics

I came 8th in the state in Economics, and most of that came down to how I composed myself during exams, rather than how much of the textbook I memorised. I assist Tim by keeping our stats, notes, and exemplar responses up to date, as well as marking responses and covering select classes. In class I walk you through how I plan my answer to every question so you stop running out of time in Section IV, while maximising the quality of your answers.

“The weekly marking is what did it for me. They ripped my essays apart in Term 1, but by Trials I was writing 20/20s.”
David — 96 in Economics, UNSW Commerce

Come and try a class

Sit in on a masterclass before you commit to a term. If it isn’t for you, that is a perfectly good answer.