AQA AS level Business 19th and 23rd May 2016

i didnt even get that. I tried to talk about the fact that ethical stuff might improve reputation and then somehow talked about fairtrade

I did the same. You will get 2 marks out of 3. They will identify it as a common mistake since so many people have done it.

How many paragraphs were people writing for the 16 and 20 markers by the way?

I wrote around 3/4 paragraphs for the 16 and 20 markers but for the 20 marker i gave more of a detailed conclusion.

Really. For more writing style I only wrote two for each. It may sound as if that is little, but the exemplar material showed 2 paragraphs in depth for this length of question. Moreover, an examiner mentioned on tutor2u on how to answer exam questions in depth. Not that I am saying your writing style is wrong, just posting this here for others that struggle on time.

Yeah, similar to that except expanding onto other points like I mentioned before as it was a "to what extent" question, implying argumentative question. It really was a **** question.

I found the outsourcing one a piece of ****, couldn't think of enough stuff to write worth 9 marks! I didn't know what to write!
Also the question about theorists was okay and the question about Public vs private limited q's. Some people hated them some people loved it, how did you guys find it??

How many points did you write for and against for this question?

Theorists was alright, although I think my analysis was maybe a little lacking. I had no trouble with public v private limited

I put like with public you gain positive publicity and raise finance from selling shares in the stock exchange and with private it's quick decision making and more opportunities for promotion, not sure if that's right?

For the 20 marker I spoke about other factors that impact decisions that businesses make such as PESTLE, is that ok?

At the end of the day, I don't really care what grade I get now, because I'm carrying it on to A2... so the AS gets scrapped anyway!

Same here! But my teacher said that AS grade is important too as for people who are going to university they will look at your AS grade!

We'll see. If my business grade is shockingly bad, I will have to consider dropping it. I hate media studies, but I can get a good grade. If getting a good grade will get me into the uni to do the course I want, so be it.

How did you find the first business exam? I thought that was pretty easy, people seem to be complaining about that one!

Yeah! I totally get that, my teachers said that with writing 2 paragraphs it can be really 'touch and go' how much detaiil youve included and so your writing style has to be good, yours clearly sounds it, so its abit of a safer bet to write 4 paragraphs (2 for 2 against) that are still developed. Some people in my class also write 2 paragraphs and it works well for them.
Its just different methods but i've seemed to get good marks on past mocks using it.
I went to the convention speech talk thingy with tutor2u, and apart from being totally bored, they were all talking about depth but i personally work better in shorter concise paragraphs.

Which questions did you guys find tough?

I found the outsourcing one a piece of ****, couldn't think of enough stuff to write worth 9 marks! I didn't know what to write!
Also the question about theorists was okay and the question about Public vs private limited q's. Some people hated them some people loved it, how did you guys find it??

I thought paper 1 was alright, there weren't any weird questions there.