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Edexcel A-level Business Paper 3 - 9th June 2025 [Exam Chat]

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Reply 60

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by user75739589980
what did people get for gross and operating profit margins
36% something and 3 % something for gross and operating

Reply 61

I didn’t do the 12 marker with profitability and for the final 20marker I legit just rushed it so I didn’t have much time to write any calculations on it. I wrote 2 for and an against paragraph and a conclusion. How many marks do u reckon I’m capped at?

Reply 62

**** I just realised i spoke about poly and ethnocentrism the wrong way around

Bye 20 marker

Reply 63

Timing was so bad. I didn’t write conclusions for 3 questions ahh I’m so scared now 😔

Reply 64

What is CSR? I waffled so much

Reply 65

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by ssara_0709
What is CSR? I waffled so much


Basically being ethical

Reply 66

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by ssara_0709
What is CSR? I waffled so much

Basically just talking about how end of road festival has a social responsibility to be like environmentally friendly etc. I said like how with csr, it shows employees that they’re working with a business that donates to a good cause to will motivate them and lead to better performance and said for the against point that they lose profit because they donate some of it to children who have been in war etc

Reply 67

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by ssara_0709
What is CSR? I waffled so much


Corporate social responsibility- being considerate of the environment and wider social issues basically

Reply 68

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by ssara_0709
Timing was so bad. I didn’t write conclusions for 3 questions ahh I’m so scared now 😔
no same my conclusions were awful and timing was so bad

Reply 69

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by AlviA17
Basically just talking about how end of road festival has a social responsibility to be like environmentally friendly etc. I said like how with csr, it shows employees that they’re working with a business that donates to a good cause to will motivate them and lead to better performance and said for the against point that they lose profit because they donate some of it to children who have been in war etc


That’s good

Reply 70

Is an A possible with no conclusions?😭

Reply 71

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by ssara_0709
Entrepreneurial motives? I talked about resilience and dependence. I don’t even know if that counts 💀


Profit satificing and independence of being more free for the rest of year when festival not running I wrote about but idk felt it was a tad waffley

Reply 72

HELLLOOOOO, did anyone actually use ratios for the questions I’m sure you could just use margins ?

Reply 73

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by Finners4839894
HELLLOOOOO, did anyone actually use ratios for the questions I’m sure you could just use margins ?

You were meant to use margins, they just called them profit rations.

Reply 74

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by ssara_0709
Is an A possible with no conclusions?😭


Probably not 💀

Reply 75

They should make business 2 hours 30 mins.

Reply 76

Entrepreneurial motives, are things like flexibility of being own 'boss', challenge of running own business, and financial - make profits etc . Its didn't ask for 'roles' or 'characteristics'

Reply 77

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by Jakeclarke
Entrepreneurial motives, are things like flexibility of being own 'boss', challenge of running own business, and financial - make profits etc . Its didn't ask for 'roles' or 'characteristics'

Yeah exactly, I was thinking of writing like protectiveness or resilience but then I deeped it doesn’t even make sense, so I just used logic from there. Just tried to think of **** that would motivate an entrepreneur to start a business so I said profit minimisation and independence/full control or ownership

Reply 78

What were the section A 10 and 12 markers again?

Reply 79

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by AlviA17
Yeah exactly, I was thinking of writing like protectiveness or resilience but then I deeped it doesn’t even make sense, so I just used logic from there. Just tried to think of **** that would motivate an entrepreneur to start a business so I said profit minimisation and independence/full control or ownership

Exactly the same, took me 2 mins to think about it, it was a trick question, a lot of people fell down the trap of 'roles'

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