Edexcel Business Studies Exam - Unit 3: International Business - 10th June 2011

My teachers are useless.

i found the paper pretty hard!
i didnt get to finish or even start evaluating for the last question but i always have time management problems, how about you guys?
definitely thought the second section was easier than the first -wish i'd started on that first!

also doing morrisons and have the 96 page booklet! i havent properly read it yet, but when you say its got 'all the possible questions they could ask' does it actually have every possible question we could get or is that just my wishful thinking??

also, i dont really understand the grading for this - does each paper (including AS) count as 25% each of the final a level? if so, how can 53/80 be equal to an A for this paper when an A overall is 80%? 53/80 is only 66% , i have A's (82 and 86%) in each AS paper but surely with 66% equalling an A for this i could effectively get four As in the papers and still end up with a B overall??
im not sure if that makes any sense, but any help would be appreciated! i would ask my teacher but she's never in school..

ah thanks guys! i just checked my results sheet - no raw marks just ums
so still kinda confused but i guess ill check with my class or something haha

and thank god for the morrisons booklet! it does look pretty good.
assuming TGbuble and i are talking about the same booklet, ive found it online to download trix9098 :
http://www.slideshare.net/mattbentley34/morrisons-analysis-of-preseen-case-study
(i did try posting this earlier but it hasnt showed for some reason - just in case the post somehow appears later and i look like an idot)

Not to be a kill joy, but you shouldn’t be discussing the paper until 12 tomorrow morning

Oh really?
Whys that?

hey im sitting unit 4b, and my teacher is useless, we havent gone through the case study at all. i was wondering if anyone knew of any online resources or something that could help. cheers

hey im sitting unit 4b, and my teacher is useless, we havent gone through the case study at all. i was wondering if anyone knew of any online resources or something that could help. cheers

hate to be the odd one out, but me and my class found that paper SOOOOOO easy! honestly don't know why we'd worked ourselves up about it. but the economics half of it on 20th june will kill us :| we're all gona fail, it's about the bbc license fee! ugh!

i found the paper pretty hard!
i didnt get to finish or even start evaluating for the last question but i always have time management problems, how about you guys?
definitely thought the second section was easier than the first -wish i'd started on that first!

also doing morrisons and have the 96 page booklet! i havent properly read it yet, but when you say its got 'all the possible questions they could ask' does it actually have every possible question we could get or is that just my wishful thinking??

also, i dont really understand the grading for this - does each paper (including AS) count as 25% each of the final a level? if so, how can 53/80 be equal to an A for this paper when an A overall is 80%? 53/80 is only 66% , i have A's (82 and 86%) in each AS paper but surely with 66% equalling an A for this i could effectively get four As in the papers and still end up with a B overall??
im not sure if that makes any sense, but any help would be appreciated! i would ask my teacher but she's never in school..

Hi,

Please note that the 66% marks (53/80 x100) you are getting in each of the AS units is just the raw mark, and not overall UMS. When it will be converted to UMS mark, it will turn to 80% - Just see:
{(66+66) / (80+80)} x 100 = 82.5%

I also had some troubles with managing time efficiently – and I missed out to address numerous points in the last question.

As I have heard so far, giving real life examples can worth marks. I was able to put a number of them in section B, but not in section A. Want to hear your experiences in this regard as well. Were you able to include real examples abundantly?