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Why study Business?
Studying Business encourages you to think carefully about and learn more about how businesses operate. This will be useful if you are interested in starting your own business but also enables you to understand more clearly how everyone has an impact on businesses and allows you a greater understanding of how the world’s economies work.
What skills will I develop and what will I study?
As well as subject content that is directly related to Business Studies you will develop transferable skills including developing the ability to make good decisions based on appropriate data. Your oral and written communication will be developed as well as refining your numeracy skills. As we will study how organisations adapt and change based on their markets you will also be encouraged to be more adaptable and solve problems.
As part of this qualification you will study businesses in the real world, influences on business, business operations, human resources, marketing and finance.
How will I be assessed?
Business is 100% externally assessed (AQA).
Paper 1 Influences of operations, and HRM on business activity. Written paper: 1 hour 45 minutes (90 marks)- 50% of GCSE.
Paper 2 Influences of marketing and finance on business activity. Written paper: 1 hour 45 minutes (90 marks)- 50% of GCSE.
What are the Post 16 Opportunities?
Students achieving a good grade at GCSE could study A level Business, or a related vocational qualification such as BTEC Business.
There are also apprenticeships available. This could lead to a career within accounting, business, enterprise and entrepreneurship, business administration, IT, hospitality or travel and tourism. This could be as a human resources manager, retail buyer, accountant, auditor, digital marketing officer, estate agent, administrator, public relations officer, business person, franchise owner, bank manager, marketing executive, project manager or tax inspector.
For further information, please contact Head of Business – Mrs Martin.
“Having a vision is about using your imagination, it is about stretching your brain to think differently. It’s about training yourself to focus on where it is you want to go, what it is you want to achieve.” – Sir Alan Sugar