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I started revising for my business management exam like 7 days ago. But now I have 28 days left and I need to get an A. Is it possible to get an A now.
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Reply 1

Really depends how good your are but with the amount of time you had it seems possible, I have to admit I did very little revision for my prelim but still got an A (77%) although it is one of my stronger and favourite subjects (I have done lots of revision for the final exam, don’t worry). For many of the questions, it’s about using your common sense (especially for discuss questions and questions asking to describe the costs & benefits). Good luck for tomorrow either way.

Reply 2

Original post by Mills15
Really depends how good your are but with the amount of time you had it seems possible, I have to admit I did very little revision for my prelim but still got an A (77%) although it is one of my stronger and favourite subjects (I have done lots of revision for the final exam, don’t worry). For many of the questions, it’s about using your common sense (especially for discuss questions and questions asking to describe the costs & benefits). Good luck for tomorrow either way.

good luck to you too

Reply 3

Original post by khattakhaider51
good luck to you too

Just wondering how you found the exam.

In my opinion the case study on Boohoo was awful and I probably lost about 10 marks on it I know I lost most of the marks on the pricing strategies as I got price skimming and penetration pricing the wrong way wrong. Just hoping I got an A now.

Reply 4

Hi everyone. I did the exam today as well. I was suprised there was quite a few questions about technology in the different departments.

Reply 5

Original post by Mills15
Just wondering how you found the exam.
In my opinion the case study on Boohoo was awful and I probably lost about 10 marks on it I know I lost most of the marks on the pricing strategies as I got price skimming and penetration pricing the wrong way wrong. Just hoping I got an A now.

Hi, sorry for the late reply and yes the case study was really bad but section 2 was quite ok I guess, hopefully there’s a chance of an A

Reply 6

Original post by khattak haider
Hi, sorry for the late reply and yes the case study was really bad but section 2 was quite ok I guess, hopefully there’s a chance of an A

I’m hoping people feel the same way as us about the case study and didn’t do as well as they hoped to so that the grade boundaries are lowered slightly. Most people I spoke to afterwards found it bad as well. My teacher was quite surprised there was no 8 mark questions considering it is back to normal courses this year, there wasn’t even a 6 marker, it was a maximum of 5 if I remember correctly.

Reply 7

Original post by Mills15
I’m hoping people feel the same way as us about the case study and didn’t do as well as they hoped to so that the grade boundaries are lowered slightly. Most people I spoke to afterwards found it bad as well. My teacher was quite surprised there was no 8 mark questions considering it is back to normal courses this year, there wasn’t even a 6 marker, it was a maximum of 5 if I remember correctly.

Yes that’s true hopefully they lower the grade boundaries down

Reply 8

Original post by khattak haider
Yes that’s true hopefully they lower the grade boundaries down

Bit late but how did you do for higher business. I thankfully got an A however I was panicking on results day morning until "BusM H A" appeared on my results text as it was one of the two subjects I wanted to do really well in alongside higher accounting. The grade boundaries or higher business this year was: A1 - 98/120 (82%), A2 - 80/120 (67%), B - 68/120 (57%), C - 56/120 (47%) and D - 44/120 (37%). Each boundary dropped by 4 marks so I wonder if they decided to disregard a question but still let people have the marks as a bonus if they got it, I don't even know if they are allowed to do that?

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