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A-level Business7132

SpecificationPlanning resourcesTeaching resourcesAssessment resourcesKey dates
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Specification at a glance
3.0 Subject content
3.1 What is business?
3.2 Managers, leadership and decision making
3.3 Marketing management
3.4 Operational management
3.5 Financial management
3.6 Human resource management
3.7 Analysing the strategic position of a business
3.8 Choosing strategic direction
3.9 Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
3.10 Managing strategic change
4.0 Scheme of assessment
5.0 General administration
Annex: quantitative skills in business
AS and A-level Business Specifications for first teaching in 2023

AS and A-level Business Specifications for first teaching in 2023

13 Jun 2023

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2.0 Specification at a glance

Subject content

  • 1 What is business?
  • 2 Managers, leadership and decision making
  • 3 Decision making to improve marketing performance
  • 4 Decision making to improve operational performance
  • 5 Decision making to improve financial performance
  • 6 Decision making to improve human resource performance
  • 7 Analysing the strategic position of a business
  • 8 Choosing strategic direction
  • 9 Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
  • 10. Managing strategic change

Assessments

Paper 1: Business 1

What's assessed

All content above

Assessed

  • written exam: 2 hours
  • 100 marks in total
  • 33.3% of A-level

Questions

Three compulsory sections:
  • Section A has 15 multiple choice questions (MCQs) worth 15 marks.
  • Section B has short answer questions worth 35 marks.
  • Sections C and D have two essay questions (choice of one from two and one from two) worth 25 marks each.

Paper 2: Business 2

What's assessed

All content above

Assessed

  • written exam: 2 hours
  • 100 marks in total
  • 33.3% of A-level

Questions

Three data response compulsory questions worth approximately 33 marks each and made up of three or four part questions

Paper 3: Business 3

What's assessed

All content above

Assessed

  • written exam: 2 hours
  • 100 marks in total
  • 33.3% of A-level

Questions

One compulsory case study followed by approximately six questions

Before the qualification can be awarded, students must undertake all the assessments.

1.0 Introduction
3.0 Subject content
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