Why is the A-level Business Studies seen as a soft option?

So you just naturally post stupid points for the fun of it?

im just wondering how many of the people in this thread actually do business studies? okay, so its known as a soft subject but i do not agree with it being easy. it depends on the individual surely. As the OP said, people play to their strengths and surely people who have an interest in business studies are going to be good at the subject. i do business studies and i found it really hard at AS. now being in A2 there is a lot less content than i first originally thought. It is all about whether the individual has the qualities that an business person has and whether they are able to apply the current trends to the case study.
i also think it is VERY unfair that people are claiming on here that universities frown upon it. I beg to differ very much so.
i took PE, business studies and psychology at A level - stereotypically the soft subjects at A level. and was accepted into all of my university choices within the space of 2 weeks. these were uni of leeds x2, uni of sheffield, uni of york and uni of manchester so all russell group universities. All for a highly competitive subject (criminology & law - at which the uni with the most course places offers only 50 places)
So i think that i was not looked down upon at all and think that some of these people mentioned in the OP's original post as present within this thread.
surely if a person is happy and doing well in a subject it is not down to fickle classmates to make them feel that their a level is pointless?

You have reached the limit of how many posts you can rate today!


I am giving you SO much +rep in my head right now it hurts. Stupid limit

i just rationalised a point, not overreacting to one dear.

Bless, some people are just that stupid i guess.

in essence the core principles are the same. and business is much more practical and cannot apply to everything on life whereas economics imo can.

i wanted to give you a positive rep however ive run out. very well said!

Nothing wrong with joint honours business/management as long as its done with something respectable.

Any reason you feel the need to put people down?

I'm looking to to do Computing/Computer Science combined with it

I like to put people down when they are being so blatantly ignorant, naive and just plane wrong.

I like to put people down when they are being so blatantly ignorant, naive and just plane wrong.

Interesting perspective. So, what are you studying at university, philosophy?

A Business Studies A-level will not. It will appear on many Universities' "non-preferred" lists.

So regardless of how spirited your advocacy for Business Studies, the people that matter think it's a dud.

I am doing a business studies A-level, and there are a lot of people at my college who mock and laugh at this. I have a few mates who do maths who basically think they're superior in a mocking way because they do maths and I do Business studies.

Some people find different subjects easier than others. On the whole, business studies A level is easier than Maths A level, but that doesn't apply to everyone.

This annoys me, as ok fair enough maybe maths A-level is harder in terms of that the content is much harder to learn, but at the end of the day each person plays to their own strengths and does what they enjoy, and it just irritates me when people I know who do maths claim they could get an A* in Business Studies without even trying. How do they know that until they have done the subject?

40% of people sitting maths gain an A or higher, comparatively around 25% in business studies. Why are so many people thinking the statistics will back them up?