Edexcel Business Studies Unit 3

Lol, who's gonna be up at 04:30?

Me!! r u?
Have an exam in the morning so will be revising

I didn't know there was a thread on this paper!

It was OK, it was the first time I've sat this paper properly (other than mocks) so I didn't have the advantage of sitting it in January. I thought section A was fine, apart from the 12 mark question as evaluation on two stakeholder groups of our choice would have been better.

Unfortunately I misread Q7 () and I realised half-way through, so I had to quickly bullet point how I would have answered it. I doubt the examiner will care, I'd probably get 2 marks at the most out of sympathy (she hopes...).

Overall I think the main problem was the fact that I lost confidence before. In some mocks I was on low grades due to timing (i.e. a D in a mock), but I improved by practicing and achieved a good A in one mock. Then I just lost momentum due to other heavy-going exams during the week and this morning I felt so nervous as I had two exams. Also, I re-reading the question and underlining is a good idea as I am still irritated that I made a silly mistake.

That said I hope the grade boundaries will be low, I doubt I achieved an A, but hopefully a B and I can do well in the resit next Thursday. An hour and a half is too short for this exam though; especially if they want us to refer back to the case-study.

i'm so annoyed that everyone seems to have already sat both unit 3 and 4 in january so have a rough idea... i sat neither so it's so much pressure!

also, if lots of people found today hard it will push the grade boundaries down don't forget!

unit 4 is worrying me, we only started looking at the toyota case study like 2 weeks ago and it's been out since like december! hopefully q's on culture and ratios has to come up

When i did the toyota exam in January the big question was contingency planning and growth, there werent any ratio or maths type questions so you're probably right.

The stakeholder groups were given to us, customers and shareholders?

also has anyone got some notes on unit 4 would be thankful