AQA AS Business (BUSS1) - Exam Topic Tracker

This might be helpful for centres who are getting students ready for BUSS1 in January 2010. As each exam sitting of a new specification passes, it is a useful exercise to track which parts of the specification have been tested and in what way. Of course some topics soon become examiner favourites - tested again and again if students consistently perform poorly. So beware question-spotting.

The questions set in the first two sittings of AQA AS Business Studies (BUSS1) are summarised in our BUSS1 Topic Tracker, which you can download here:

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Revision Presentation - Mission, Aims, Objectives and Stakeholders

This streamed revision presentation on business objectives, aims, the mission statement and business stakeholders.

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Teaching Activity on Startups - Mini Briefs

This teaching resource went down a storm when we introduced it to our colleagues offering AQA BUSS1 and at the Business Booster CPD days this month!  So we thought we’d share it with the wider tutor2u business teacher community…

Revising for AQA BUSS1 - Key Term Quiz Bank

We’ve updated and extented this interactive resource which students mayu find helpful as they revise their key term definitions for AQA BUSS1.  In this quiz, a random sample of 10 key BUSS1 terms is selected from the quiz database.  Students are given a definition and they must choose the correct related term by dragging it to the answer space.

Launch AQA AS Business Unit 1 Key Term Revision Bank

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Entrepreneur video - an interview with Fraser Doherty

A terrific interview with good friend of tutor2u - Fraser Doherty - on Smarta this week. Well worth showing as part of AQA (GCSE Unit 1 & BUSS1) and Edexcel (GCSE Unit 1).

BUSS1 - Intensive Exam Preparation Workshops in December 2009

Bookings are now being taken for our popular programme of intensive one-day revision days for AQA AS Business Unit 1 (BUSS1) in London (8 Dec), Birmingham (9 Dec) and Manchester (10 Dec).  We’re expecting another sell-out for these days which are designed to support and build upon work done in lessons during this term.  The aim of the day is simple - to focus students on exactly what is required to maximise their performance in the January 2010 BUSS1 exam…

Research Start-Ups! Team Challenge (2)

My first lesson with the AS students next week.  Keen to get them buzzing about business start-ups, what better way than to set them a research task in the form of a team challenge!

AQA AS Business Unit 1 - Recommended Websites (2009/10)

The AQA AS Business Unit 1 (BUSS1) specification places strong emphasis on the business start-up process. The start-up area is tremendously interesting and there is no shortage of excellent online resources that students and teachers can access to support their studies for free!.  Here is our recommended list - please add your suggestions using the comments box at the foot of the blog page.

Flexible working thrives in the recession

A very useful article in the Guardian takes a look at how flexible working arrangements have thrived during the UK recession as employers have tried to find ways of reducing production capacity and operating costs without always resorting to compulsory redundancies…

AQA Business Studies - Introduction to Unit 3

AQA Business students who probably breezed through AS Unit 1 (a relaxing step down from legacy GCSE) and put in a more sustained effort to pass Unit 2 will need to raise their game for the two A2 units. The true challenge comes with Unit 4.  But let’s look briefly here at Unit 3.