Edexcel A Level Business Paper 1 (9BS0 01) - 23rd May 2023 [Exam Chat]

Original post by cicciosisi

what do you guys think grade boundaries will be this year

extremely high

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Hlfluysdykx

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Original post by Adhvyth

extremely high

Hope that they are not too high - I was thinking that perhaps the exams this year would be considerably harder than the last few years in attempt to try to return to pre-covid grades / away from grade inflation over the last few years. But out of the few a level exams so far, I haven't heard lots of complaints like most of my friends all said their exams so far were ok. But I hope that they don't make them too easy so that the grade boundaries are stupidly high.

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Original post by Hlfluysdykx

Hope that they are not too high - I was thinking that perhaps the exams this year would be considerably harder than the last few years in attempt to try to return to pre-covid grades / away from grade inflation over the last few years. But out of the few a level exams so far, I haven't heard lots of complaints like most of my friends all said their exams so far were ok. But I hope that they don't make them too easy so that the grade boundaries are stupidly high.

i hope they are really low

Reply 84

Original post by Atonomy

Basically I remember this seller that sold notes for both AQA Business and Computing AQA GCSE for both and I bought the ntoes and they were so helpful that my friends got 8s and 9s and I got a 9 (A*), does anyone want the link?

Do you have for a level edexcel?

Reply 85

Atonomy

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Original post by Adhvyth

Do you have for a level edexcel?

I dont sorry just gcse because i didn pick alevel business

Reply 86

Original post by cicciosisi

ah no worries you kinda scared me

sound prediction i hate 1.5 unless its types of business i dont really care why charlie is a good entrepreneurs

to be honest makes sense for theme 4, the other stuff is just weird 4 mark material amybe even 4.3 asking about poly vs ethno vs geocentric or stuff like push and pull reasons

There has never been a market share calculation

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Original post by T2T2!

There has never been a market share calculation

Yes there has lol, it was to calculate the UK market share of sommet in comparison to the other markets globally that have a higher share than the UK. It was a 4 marker on one of the past papers.

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Original post by NathanIN

Yes there has lol, it was to calculate the UK market share of sommet in comparison to the other markets globally that have a higher share than the UK. It was a 4 marker on one of the past papers.

Oh jeez i Have not seen that, even so its hardly come up co,pared to 4 markers like supply/demand or elasticity of demand

Reply 89

10lol10x

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Does anyone have any predictions for the 20 markers??

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Original post by 10lol10x

Does anyone have any predictions for the 20 markers??

Theme 1 could maybe be recruitment/training or something to do with staff there has not been too many of them on that
Theme 4 potentially to do with push/pull factors (where an MNC should locate themselves) or weighing up whether a company should undertake a global merger/strategic alliance or something

Reply 91

Original post by 10lol10x

Does anyone have any predictions for the 20 markers??

Another possible 20 marker for theme 4 is offshoring vs outsourcing and what could a business use to gain a greater competitive advantage over its competitors.

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Original post by NathanIN

Another possible 20 marker for theme 4 is offshoring vs outsourcing and what could a business use to gain a greater competitive advantage over its competitors.

where are u lot getting this from?

Reply 93

Original post by Adhvyth

where are u lot getting this from?

Using what hasn’t been asked in past papers and relating likely questions

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Original post by NathanIN

Using what hasn’t been asked in past papers and relating likely questions

oh ok

Reply 95

DrishtiS

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Guys I know it is a silly question but how do you calculate market size?

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Original post by DrishtiS

Guys I know it is a silly question but how do you calculate market size?

If you mean market share it is:

(Sales of a Business/Total Sales in Market) x 100

Not sure abt market size

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