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  1. Hugh*'s Avatar
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    AQA AS BUSS2 - 21/05/12 - discussion
    Couldnt find the thread for this so decided to start one.

    How did you all find the exam?
  2. heyama00's Avatar
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    I thought it was aright, what did u get for labor productivity question?
  3. ovo95's Avatar
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    I thought the exam was quite good. A lot of the questions have come up in previous past papers though. I have seen question 2d before.

    In terms of the Labour Productivity question, the answer was in fact 72 units.

    A lot of people I talked to got this wrong. It said in the paper there were 40 employees and has increased by 50%. Most people saw the 50% and doubled it to 80, then divided it into the amount of Mussels which were made to give something like 52.

    You actually had to find 50% of 40 then add that on, which made it to 60 employees.

    Even if you got the answer wrong you should get a few method marks, so it's not too bad.
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    I got that wrong, both the case study was good.

    I hope I get B in this paper, got C already.

    Are u doing unit 3?
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    that was so easy, just ran out of time on
    the last question. Hopefully got an A this time round
  6. heyama00's Avatar
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    Get 60 marks in this paper u will get full 120 UMS.
  7. heyama00's Avatar
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    got that wrong completely, did that last ran out of time rushed it.

    Other question was aright i thought
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    I messed up that labour productivity question bad, completely forgot the formula. It's only 5 marks though. 2d wasn't amazing either, rest of it was very easy though. Riding on the back of 84% in BUSS1 so hopefully got an A.
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    anyone doing unit 3?
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    got 76 ums in unit 1 so only need 84 for an A :P
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    i need 96/120 ums in this one to get an A overall just praying atm, i got 72 tonnes per worker for the labour productivity one
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    crap i thought you had give a percentage increase ah man
  13. Hugh*'s Avatar
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    The only one I struggled with was the marketing mix question. I could only find stuff to write about the place.

    Everything else was fine I think.

    FYI: calculation answer was 72 tonnes per employee.
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    I thought that was a really nice paper, the invigilator told us to put down our pens just as I finished my final sentence. Managed to encorporate kaisen and Herzeberg/Maslow into it too
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    Re: AQA AS BUSS2 - 21/05/12 - discussion
    (Original post by A Wise Ninja)
    I thought that was a really nice paper, the invigilator told us to put down our pens just as I finished my final sentence. Managed to encorporate kaisen and Herzeberg/Maslow into it too
    What question was that for?
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    Re: AQA AS BUSS2 - 21/05/12 - discussion
    (Original post by Hugh*)
    The only one I struggled with was the marketing mix question. I could only find stuff to write about the place.

    Everything else was fine I think.

    FYI: calculation answer was 72 tonnes per employee.
    what did you write about place?
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    Donut reckon I would get any marks if I put the answer as 5400 because I stupidly x100 and yet another stupid mistake thinking an increase of 50%..so doubled to 80 employees rather than 60 smh...=/
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    * do u
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    Re: AQA AS BUSS2 - 21/05/12 - discussion
    (Original post by UnspokenDreams)
    Donut reckon I would get any marks if I put the answer as 5400 because I stupidly x100 and yet another stupid mistake thinking an increase of 50%..so doubled to 80 employees rather than 60 smh...=/
    probably not /: If you stated the labour productivity formula, you would get a mark for that though
  20. gfm's Avatar
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    can anyone remember how many marks was worth each question in both case studies? i want to try see how many marks i could have got for each question lol
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