GCSE AQA Business Studies: Unilever Exam--

63/63 in my coursework and i'm generally pretty good at business and am predicted an A*, but i just ballsed it up :|:|:|

Reply 21

christos32

OP

i did my coursework on a car accessories business, what about you ?
yeahh for the finance question i got 10.3% in 2007 and 13% in 2008, the question where it said comment about it i just said there was an approximate 2.7% increase in net profit margin

A milkshake bar

Does anyone know the average grade boundaries in the exam? like what it usually is? i.e. how much % for an A ???

Reply 24

esssam

yeah i rushed the report too, i did my coursework on the Playstation 3 and got 56/63 :frown:

but its first draft soooo i hope it goes up. Anyway I think i am losing marks on the vertical growth question and the ben & Jerry's recession question too. I would be extremely happy with an A as i dont think i did pretty well

Reply 25

esssam

To qwerty I think its about 70% either for an a or a* but the boundaries keep changin anyway and the way it looks many people did mistakes in the vertical growth question and many others so I HOPE THE BOUNDARIES GO DOWN!!!!

Reply 26

Mstr

in past years the boundaries have been about 70% for an a* but i asked and apparently they might be a little lower this year as Unilever was a harder case study :/ aiming for an a* but i dont know if i have done enough -- also mucked up on vertical growth

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Reply 27

qwerty54321

oh, that makes me feel so much betterrrrr!!
now i've just got a zillion more exams to look forward to :|:|

Reply 28

esssam

I hate how they have ps3 ads in an exams website, tempts you to leave revision and go play videogames lol :smile:

Reply 29

hannah_27

gosh i wish i looked at this forum yesterday!

I only did it today.....
wrote all about current assetts instead of liabilities....
such a stupid and annoying mistake!!

Reply 30

christos32

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Mstr, how do you know that the grade boundaries might be lower ?

i think alot of people lost marks on that question so dont think its something major to worry about...

how come you did it today ?? how does that work out ?
did you find any questions a bit of a bitch, any other that spring to mind?

Reply 31

christos32

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esssam

yeah i rushed the report too, i did my coursework on the Playstation 3 and got 56/63 :frown:

but its first draft soooo i hope it goes up. Anyway I think i am losing marks on the vertical growth question and the ben & Jerry's recession question too. I would be extremely happy with an A as i dont think i did pretty well

Also, one of the questions on the paper about 'what effect could a fall in the pound have on unilever'

what effect would this have on english shareholders dividends with regards to unilever giving them out in euro therefore if there was a fall in the pound what effect would this have on shareholders as they need to exchange this dividends in euros into sterling ? would it make dividends less/more for the english shareholders?

Reply 32

christos32

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Mstr

in past years the boundaries have been about 70% for an a* but i asked and apparently they might be a little lower this year as Unilever was a harder case study :/ aiming for an a* but i dont know if i have done enough -- also mucked up on vertical growth

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How do you know the grade boundaries might be lower ? and how did you find out that this years unilever case study was harder ? just out of interest?