Business studies Unit 1 AS Edexcel

I think that's an overstatement. There's no way an A is going to drop by 5 marks, I'd say by 1 or 2 marks at max

Damn! I so read that question wrong then! But thank you for the help!

Thanks dude what do you think you got out of 70?

think i got 50

I don't think it's an overstatement.

Summer 2013 AS business Unit 1 was 55 Marks for an A

Summer 2014 AS business Unit 1 was 48 marks for an A


It's possible depending on how bad people did overall.

Okay for all you ignorant people out their im going to explain once more and once only.

The question mentioned two very important facts, that sales INCREASED by 20% in the UK and 51% internationally. Now following this exact statement was the question "what is the likely cause of this"

please tell me how, "meeting consumer needs" will in any way create a 31% difference in growth? its not possible? and for all those that respond saying "the UK market is saturated" for a uk market to be saturated, growth is around 1.3% not 20%...

Therefore the only justifiable answer is unemployment rate increased in the UK, which would show a miniature lack of growth increase. Some might say "unemployment causes a decrease in sales" no this is wrong because Lidl and Aldi etc thrives from unemployment rate. Now other might say Cath is luxury goods, well it didn't once mention it in the question, and you also don't need any background information so you cannot interpret that.

Therefore the only viable answer is D.

No problem!

For me, this exam was a Resit as i'm an A2 student but I thought i'd resit it to see if I can squeeze some more marks for my overall grade. I think around 50 as well, definitely dropped marks in section B with the government spending question, that was awful.

Do you think this paper was harder than last year then..?

Personally, I found that it was easier, the reason for this being is a lot of analysis methods and content you learn at A2 can be applied to AS which helped

I'm a little worried. For the last question in evaluating if you think becoming an Entrepreneur was a good idea. I decided to add up all the jobs he predicted he would have done over the year and compared it with the break-even point.

I worked out the break-even point as around 490
and he was only predicting of selling 400 units.

So i said it was a bad decision, however most people seem to have worked it out as him making a profit instead and i feel like I have put the wrong thing.
Did anyone do anything similar in 2(c)

I'm a little worried. For the last question in evaluating if you think becoming an Entrepreneur was a good idea. I decided to add up all the jobs he predicted he would have done over the year and compared it with the break-even point.

I worked out the break-even point as around 490
and he was only predicting of selling 400 units.

So i said it was a bad decision, however most people seem to have worked it out as him making a profit instead and i feel like I have put the wrong thing.
Did anyone do anything similar in 2(c)

Your in the wrong exam board discussion group i think. This is edexcel

Thank you, yes I am.

Made me think I missed a question and started panicking there! Haha

Haha same i did start to wonder!

MISSED OUT 14MARKS *******S. Think i got 50.

How did you miss 14 marks? Do you know the questiosn you missed?