Business Studies

Another opinion on the A-levels I am, or in this case - used to do. This time, it's business studies. WHAT'S IN THE COURSE The course is split up in to 6 different sections for the AS, then another 6 for the full A-level. There is work on marketing, business types, use of IT within business, starting a business, working in business, accounting and finance, product differentiation and lots of case studies to do. COURSEWORK The main piece of coursework for the AS is writing a long, detailed report about a medium to large company of your choice. Examples include McDonalds, Barclays, Cadbury's, Virgin etc. The brief is to analyse the ...

In what other subject could you watch 4 videos a week, go on trips to chocolate factories and still end up with an A Level? While I will admit that most schools don’t do these things, we did for the whole 2 years of 6th form Business Studies lessons. We did do some work of course (how else do you think so many of us ended up with 100% in our modules?) , but I have to confess that more of our lessons were spend playing “educational” computer games and watching “Trouble at the Top” (and occasionally “Austin Powers....”) than reading text books. What I do remember from the syllabus though is this. We did the AEB Modular Syllabus ...

If you havent started to do your A-levels yet, and you are thinking of doing business studies, then read this opinion! I have been doing this subject for a year now; and I am thinking of stopping it there (so only having an AS-level in B.Studies) This is because of the teachers - not the subject! The subject is full of useful, and interesting topics. Ranging from government incentives, to the way a car is made on a production line! Every aspect of the way a business is run, is included in this subject! I'd imagine that this subject is quite easy if the teachers are good! Mine aren't, and so I have found it quite hard! But if you just ...