GCE Business Studies Revision Resources

Hi Year 12

Six simple steps to make habits ahead of the AS and mock exams:

1. Make sure you get plenty of sleep the night before the exam and prepare your supplies in advance to avoid extra stress.

2. In the exam, plan your answers before you start writing. Read all of the questions before choosing the options you feel most confident answering.

3. If you're stuck, identifying the key information and command words in the question can help you create your line of argument, so read the question carefully
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4. The question paper is yours to annotate and highlight during the exam, so if that helps you, scribble away!

5. Keep an eye on the time, spend the appropriate time on each question based on how many marks it's worth. 

6. When you have finished, go through the paper and check all your work for errors and make sure you have attempted every question you are required to.

These are the resources made by you and shared by you:

1. Course overview mindmap click here you may have to register for this site but its free!
2. Bethany Low's - Alternative specification check-list click here
3. Arman & Richard - GoConqr.com
4. Tutor2U Revision Videos click here
5. For flash cards click here
6. I created a blog page of resources for teachers here.  Just use the lower half of it for your revision
7. Revision powerpoint on Finance click here
8. Revision powerpoint on equations hat tip to Fraser with this one click here
9. Revision powerpoint on Operations click here
10. Spider Diagram of whole course click here
11. AQA revision notes on key topics click here
12. Answering the 9 & 12m questions click here
13. Answering the 16 & 20m questions click here
14. Last but not least the icing on the cake is here well you always get excited when I mention the word quiz!
15. Formula of key data click here
16. Teaching Topic Models - Crucial that you understand these! click here
17. Revision World resources for Year 12 & 13 click here

think that's all folk.....

Past Papers and mark schemes from the AQA website
here
Specimen papers from AQA for this new course click here

Can i suggest as you now know the content of the course that you use previous past papers and only do the questions that are in the current course from old papers below - now that you are off timetable

Specimen Paper 1 click here
Specimen Paper 2 click here
Specimen Insert - click here

Business 2 Practice Paper A click Insert
Practice paper 1 click here
Practice paper 2 click here

Practice Paper 1 click here
Business 2 Practice Paper B - click here
Business 2 - Practice Paper B Insert - Click here

Employer engagement in action

Dear Year 12 GCSE

Some companies are having great fun winning awards for their employer engagement initiatives.

Click here to see who they are.  

These companies here have embedded employer engagement into the heart of their businesses.  How would you rate them for quality service and value for money?  Is there any correlation between the two?

Other initiatives include the Happiness Index

Enjoy the reading list

Mr T

New to A level business 2016 -17

Dear year 12

here is a list of additional reading to orientate you in the subject and start you off looking at  the topics discussed in class:

BBC Learning zone clip – What is a business?  

Tutor2U – Presentation – Objectives of a new business 

Tutor2U – Revision presentation – Mission, Aims, Objectivesand Stakeholders  

James Slocombe YouTube clip – Accounting and Finance – Profit and Revenue  

BBC Two – Peter Jones meets, Series 1, Episode 1: Peter Jones meets Mark and Mo Constantine who run Lush (excellent illustration of ethical objectives and their impact on human resources, operations and financial decisions)

Enjoy

Mr T

Year 12 pupil voice for A level Business Studies

Dear Year 12

the feedback that you gave in the recent survey suggested that you would like the following helps and support.

• More examples of high level work / exemplars so be prepared to share your great work with others from now on, anonymously of course
• Progress in the subject will come from completing ALL homework and many of you have still not established routines to practice the new theory and skills you learn from the TWO lessons you have each week from each teacher.  A minimum expectation should be at least ONE hour study on every hour taught.
• Developing independent learning and study skills - use this blog page and the other resources in your scheme of work to get better at this along with Tutor2U and BBC websites and the shared area which is full of resources for this new course.
• Very few are showing evidence in folder checks of reading around the subject areas and this will greatly reduce your chances of exceeding your target grade.  Remmember you were given a  reading list at the start of the course. Try reading a book a term so that you can get through it over the two years
• One2one private mentoring is available on a Thursday and a Tuesday from 3.20pm to 4.20pm in BSO but come prepared with questions that you would like answered or extra resources that you would like to work on.

All this is designed to help you exceed your target grade, enjoy this new and exciting course and get the most out of the resources and your teaching team

Good luck and enjoy

Mr T 

Another exciting challenge for year 12 Business and Economics students

The challenge :  In 200 words, we are asking students to answer the question ….. “If you were the new Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of your favourite business, what would you do to attract the best employees?”    

The reason we are contacting you is because we would love to receive some submissions from your students!  This can be done one of two ways:

1. You or a Year 12 teacher could run a class with Year 12 students, using the lesson plan attached to this email. Collect all the submissions and send them to us via post.
2. You can forward the above link onto students in Year 12 and encourage them to enter online independently.

More information and Teacher Resources are available to download on the website - here
The closing date is 24th  January 2016 and your students will be told if they have been successful in their application by February 15th.
Prize and stages

Stage 1: The 200 students who come up with the best ideas will be selected to attend a skills and assessment day at Allen & Overy on the 15th March 2016.
Stage 2: Based on their performance during the skills and assessment day, 60 students will be offered a place on a week-long intensive work experience programme at Allen& Overy’s London office (w/c 4 July 2016).
Smart Start is the first work experience programme in the legal sector to be accredited by City & Guilds, the internationally recognised vocational education business, for its quality and content. The programme is aimed at building confidence and developing skills, from improving personal impact, to analysing, negotiation, presentation and team working. These are useful transferable skills which can be taken into any career. Participants will also get the opportunity to start building a network of contacts amongst business professionals, as well as amongst their peers from other schools.
Stage 3: After the work experience programme has finished, all Smart Start participants are offered the opportunity to benefit from advice and support from business volunteers, through Smarter Futures, our e-mentoring programme.

Stage 4: Smarter Futures mentees will also have the opportunity to apply for a bursary from Allen & Overy to support them in their university studies.

With regards to getting to and from the assessment day, up to £10 will be reimbursed by Allen & Overy on the day and therefore, you do not need to arrange transport. We would expect your support in organising the students and gaining parental consent.

Students who are successful in gaining a place on the Smart Start Experience will also be able to get their travel reimbursed during the week up to £30.

Shareholders - intrest power to influence and conflict

Dear year 12

the exam specifications requires you to

• consider stakeholders needs when making decisions

first we can recap the last lesson on stakeholders here and here

• learn about needs and the possible conflict of these needs

Then we can look at a current business example in the news here and Royal Mail here

Do businesses have a responsibility beyond profit?

• to understand the influences on the relationship with stakeholders

Finally we will look at corporate social responsibility here

• to learn about how to manage the relationship with different stakeholders

Free course for A-level students click here!

And if you like the sound of this as a starting place why not click the link here and see if this initiative is something that you would like to get stuck into.

To find out more just pop along for a chat in the BSO

Enjoy

Mr T

Studying business at A - level ! What's in it for me?

Good morning year 12

Welcome to A level business.

Why did you choose to study this course ?

Working in your own business or working in someone else's?

Either way if you understand how a business works you stand a much better chance of finding an area that you enjoy working in and will as a result get promoted very quickly.

This course is really all about understand how to make decisions and the process behind making effective decisions and how those have an impact on the teams that you will ultimately be working in.

3.2 Managers, leadership and decision making

3.2.1 Understanding management, leadership and decision making - first three lessons

• Introduction to the course and the job roles and organisational structures that a business can adopt

• Lesson 1 the role of the Manager - what do they do? click here and some background reading on the difference between managers and leaders can be found here   (Objective setting, analysing,  leading, making decisions, reviewing)

• Lesson 2 Management and leadership styles - autocratic - democratic - the big question 'are managers leaders?' - is discussed here so listen to the video clip before the next lesson and the What is leadership preview and click here

• Lesson 3 Theories of management and leadership styles starting with the important aspect of leadership here - Leadership orientation can be either be 'task orientated or people orientated' see here Tannenbaum Schmidt continuum can be explained here so read and take notes, the Blake Moulton Grid is explained here

Enjoy

Mr T