Edexcel Business and Economics unit 4B case study June 2014 (Obesity)

im finding it hard to find any resources for it either tbh. first place to look however is the edexcel website, speicification for unit 4b; http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/GCE%20New%20GCE/UA035221_GCE_Lin_BuStEcBu_Issue_3.pdf

Also, for unit 3 and anyone resitting unit 1/2, i recommend this website: http://www.businessstudiesonline.co.uk/live/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=120

it has slideshows covering every topic across all units, apart from unit 4b!!!

In terms of 20 and 30 markers my teacher has come up with a couple of interesting ones:

The most prevalent is "Assess the use of a fat tax in reducing the market failure associated with obesity"
Other ones revolved around that e.g. "Assess the extent to which the government should intervene to reduce the market failure associated with obesity"

A 20 marker was "Assess whether the cut from 50% to 45% was a good idea" no worded exactly like that

and lastly, he feel inequality could come up. Looking back at the past papers, not yet to see one that has covered inequality, and usually exam boards try to cover the entire spec after a couple of years. Considering there is evidence (evidence I ) giving you the gini coefficient of the UK, it seems it could come up.
One of the questions he came up with was "To what extent should the government intervene to reduce inequalities in income?"
and "Assess the strategies to reduce the high levels of income inequality in the UK"

Apart from those main questions that he thinks likely to come up, he made a good question on the poverty trap which is mentioned in one of the evidences
"Assess the use of Fiscal Policy in reducing the poverty trap"

Anyone else find it really hard to revise for this paper?

our teachers barely thought us anything. does anyone know how to best structure the 20/30 markers? and how much we need to write for them?

Yeah, I agree there are so many possible questions in Unit 4.
It's annoying that the different case studies each year prevent us from revising past papers like we could in all other units.
Therefore, there is no specific mark scheme to reference from.
Unlike Unit 3, we must know all definitions because of the 2 markers involved.
I have found though that there have been loads of recent cases in the news and other articles so it will be interesting to see what Evidence J is about.

Also, how do you reference quotes from outside knowledge?
e.g. foods that are high in sugar have been proven to be linked with high concentration [BBC Horizon]
OR The UK budget deficit is currently at £107.7bn – Financial year ending March 2014 [The Guardian]
Would anyone recommend this format or should I only reference the case study?

In terms of 20 and 30 markers my teacher has come up with a couple of interesting ones:

The most prevalent is "Assess the use of a fat tax in reducing the market failure associated with obesity"
Other ones revolved around that e.g. "Assess the extent to which the government should intervene to reduce the market failure associated with obesity"

A 20 marker was "Assess whether the cut from 50% to 45% was a good idea" no worded exactly like that

and lastly, he feel inequality could come up. Looking back at the past papers, not yet to see one that has covered inequality, and usually exam boards try to cover the entire spec after a couple of years. Considering there is evidence (evidence I ) giving you the gini coefficient of the UK, it seems it could come up.
One of the questions he came up with was "To what extent should the government intervene to reduce inequalities in income?"
and "Assess the strategies to reduce the high levels of income inequality in the UK"

Apart from those main questions that he thinks likely to come up, he made a good question on the poverty trap which is mentioned in one of the evidences
"Assess the use of Fiscal Policy in reducing the poverty trap"

Anyone else find it really hard to revise for this paper?

Hey, I noticed you mentioned inequalities which i think is a defo to come up as there is also the evidence on free school meals which is clearly trying to close the poverty gap etc. Anyway, i was just wondering if you could give me some help/explain what the gini coefficient evidence is about. I am not to sure what it means

Thank you

In terms of 20 and 30 markers my teacher has come up with a couple of interesting ones:

The most prevalent is "Assess the use of a fat tax in reducing the market failure associated with obesity"
Other ones revolved around that e.g. "Assess the extent to which the government should intervene to reduce the market failure associated with obesity"

A 20 marker was "Assess whether the cut from 50% to 45% was a good idea" no worded exactly like that

and lastly, he feel inequality could come up. Looking back at the past papers, not yet to see one that has covered inequality, and usually exam boards try to cover the entire spec after a couple of years. Considering there is evidence (evidence I ) giving you the gini coefficient of the UK, it seems it could come up.
One of the questions he came up with was "To what extent should the government intervene to reduce inequalities in income?"
and "Assess the strategies to reduce the high levels of income inequality in the UK"

Apart from those main questions that he thinks likely to come up, he made a good question on the poverty trap which is mentioned in one of the evidences
"Assess the use of Fiscal Policy in reducing the poverty trap"

Anyone else find it really hard to revise for this paper?