Business


Pupils accessing the Business programme here at The Aspire Academy will work towards the AQA GCSE Business (8132)

What does the qualification cover?

This new specification will provide our pupils with the opportunity to explore real business issues and how businesses work.

Pupils will consider the practical application of business concepts. The units provide opportunities to explore theories and concepts in the most relevant way, through the context of events in the business and economic world.

The knowledge and skills gained from this specification will provide our pupils with a firm foundation for further study.

This qualification will promote the learner’s understanding of:

Assessments:

Paper 1: Influence of operations and Human Resource Management (HRM) on business activity.

What’s assessed

  • Business in the real world
  • Influences on business
  • Business operations
  • Human resources
How it’s assessed

  • Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes
  • 90 marks
  • 50% of GCSE
Questions

  • Section A has multiple choice questions and short answer questions worth 20 marks.
  • Section B has one case study/data response stimuli with questions worth approximately 34 marks.
  • Section C has one case study/data response stimuli with questions worth approximately 36 mark

Paper 2: Influence of marketing and finance on business activity.

What’s assessed

  • Business in the real world
  • Influences on business
  • Marketing
  • Finance
How it’s assessed

  • Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes
  • 90 marks
  • 50% of GCSE
Questions

  • Section A has multiple choice questions and short answer questions worth 20 marks.
  • Section B has one case study/data response stimuli with questions worth approximately 34 marks.
  • Section C has one case study/data response stimuli with questions worth approximately 36 marks.

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