Top Tips for Business A Level

Master the base

Business consists of lots of fundamental aspects such as marketing, finance, operations management and HR. Building up on this is stakeholders such as governments, consumers and trade
mastering these fundamentals will stand you in good stead to analyse from multiple perspectives, allowing for a broader knowledge and access to further marks!

Some good sites for theory

RevisionWorld Business

Learning materials by WJEC for business, I will do a better organised page for these links.

Carlam Cymru resources for business, I will do the same as above

Tutor2U business - really good for both content and extra reading.

Don't neglect practical aspects.

Index numbers, PED/YED/XPED, decision-making models, percentage change, etc often come up in your smaller mark and/or multiple choice questions.
By practicing such questions and techniques, you can boost your grade due to their necessity in the subject.
Additionally, the WJEC specification states that at least 20% of the exam will have numeracy aspects,
so if you only get 50% on analysis and evaluation, You can get 70% in the exam resulting in around an A grade rather than a C.



Extra reading/background knowledge

By including specific statistics, data and background knowledge from real-life, you can strengthen your analysis and evaluation.
This is because, if you're assuming particular information, you will likely become more general, showing less depth of knowledge.
This could likely mean examiners are unable to award you as many marks as your arguments are not concrete but based on assumptions.
I myself have done this, in conjunction with leaving out diagrams which left me with a C/B grade instead of an A.
You will want to watch the videos by Tutor2u on market analysis and UK macroeconomic statistics, EconPlusDal's UK economy stats video and BBC Business for instance.
Also, read articles on multiple media to scrape information on the politics, economy and business to support your argument.
If you're limited on time, breakdown the task and collaborate with classmates.



Do every past paper you can!

Ensure you take note of common topics to focus revision (don't neglect small topics though as they have a habit of featuring in long mark questions)
Completing past papers improves your time management. You can also find good points from the mark schemes which you can memorise.
Once completing one, mark it and see where your weaknesses are because then you can target your past paper revison using our application.
Don't neglect other exam boards. The nearest exam board to WJEC is Eduqas, though sometimes there is overlapping AS/A2 content due to the nature of English exam boards.



Learn every definition.

This is excellent as it re-familiarises you with definitions which you can incorporate in your answers.
If you do so, examiners will reward you for using relevant terminology.
Learning definitions is also beneficial as you gain further depth into each topic, so it's like partially revising a topic.
Of course, you will also not have to make up a definition to get some knowledge marks at the beginning of
essays as you will know what the term means in the question.

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