Business Studies

Assessment

Paper 1. Marketing, people & global businesses (2 hours, 100 marks), draws on topics from Theme 1 and 4. Paper 2. Business activities, decisions and strategy (2 hours, 100 marks), draws on topics from Theme 2 and 3. Paper 3. Investigating business in a competitive environment (2 hours, 100 marks), will assess content across all four Themes. Questions will be drawn from local, national and global contexts. For Paper 3, there will be a pre-released context document. The context will focus on a broad issue, such as an industry or market in which businesses operate. The question paper will be in two sections. The first section will focus on the broad context provided. The second section will focus on at least one strand within the context provided, such as a particular business. Each section will contain unseen stimulus materials comprising quantitative and qualitative evidence. Students cannot take any of their research or investigation data carried out as part of the pre-release into the examination.