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A-Level Business Study Group 2025-26


Welcome to the A-level Business Study Group!


This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough!

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers and to request offsite chat. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about Business?
What area do you struggle with most?
Why did you choose to study Business?

Reply 1

Hi!
I am with the AQA exam board
I enjoy how logical it is
Area I struggle most in isn't the content but probably more the writing of the 16-markers, bc I take a lot of time to think
I chose to study it bc I did it at GCSE and I really enjoyed it(I was one mark off a nine😭😭), but I may or may not drop it, haven't decided yet

Reply 2

Hey!! I also did business studies at IGCSES and got an A* which is equivalent to a high 8 in GCSE. I am doing the edexcel a level board for busines. Your school has started with 16 marks already? Thats very far into it already!!

Reply 3

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by Abithegoat
Hey!! I also did business studies at IGCSES and got an A* which is equivalent to a high 8 in GCSE. I am doing the edexcel a level board for busines. Your school has started with 16 marks already? Thats very far into it already!!

Hi! Wow, well done on your results! Yh, we have already started with exam questions in our skl, it's kinda hard but all in all great practice, yk?

Reply 4

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by BNG2456*
Hi! Wow, well done on your results! Yh, we have already started with exam questions in our skl, it's kinda hard but all in all great practice, yk?


Yes very great practice. My teacher keeps on discouraging me to start doing 16 markers now but I think I will start anyway

Reply 5

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by Abithegoat
Yes very great practice. My teacher keeps on discouraging me to start doing 16 markers now but I think I will start anyway

Go for it, and good luck! Strange, I've not heard of teachers *discouraging* students on exam style questions
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Reply 6

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by BNG2456*
Go for it, and good luck! Strange, I've not heard of teachers *discouraging* students on exam style questions


Not exam style questions persay but he says it's too early to look at 16 markers

Reply 7

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by Abithegoat
Not exam style questions persay but he says it's too early to look at 16 markers

Hm.. understandable ig
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by Abithegoat
Not exam style questions persay but he says it's too early to look at 16 markers

Has he given a reason as to why it is too early?

The only reason I could think of is that you just have not learnt enough content yet, but given it is about a month since term began I would have thought that it would be a good time to start doing them.

Reply 9

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by flowersinmyhair
Has he given a reason as to why it is too early?
The only reason I could think of is that you just have not learnt enough content yet, but given it is about a month since term began I would have thought that it would be a good time to start doing them.

Exactly. he said not to rush and that it is very imortant to fully answer the content but I will look at the 16 markers over half-term

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