ABOUT THIS COURSE

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Gain an informed understanding of what is required to achieve grades 7-9
• Explore ideas and approaches that enable students to reach the highest grades possible
• Understand the assessment demands of the specification
• Find out more about where marks are gained and lost
• Develop practical strategies for meeting the requirements of the higher bands across all components
• Increase confidence in preparing students to achieve Grades 7-9

PROGRAMME

Feedback from recent Pearson/Edexcel A-Level Business exams

• Examine the assessment demands of all components including the use of assessment objectives as a framework for assessment
• Consider the most effective models for delivery of the course to ensure effective assessment practice across 2 years and in all components
• Explore feedback from the most recent exam series – How did your students perform, what went well and what needs to change for 2024?
• Do current students know what they need to do to ensure that they achieve the highest grades

Morning Break

• Review characteristics of Grades 7 – 9 students
• Grades 7, 8, and 9; what are the differences between these?
• Explore feedback from the most recent exam series – How did your students perform, what went well and what needs to change for 2024?
• A 2-year course overview with the focus on accessing the top grades
• Lessons learnt from the most recent examination series for able students, including on the written paper

• Identifying the range of question types; calculations, multiple-choice, short-answer and extended-writing questions
• Problems created by not reading the question fully – examples of how marks are lost
• Most successful questions
• Least successful questions
• Potential 7 – 9 – candidates – maximising all the marks available
• Exam technique errors and how to avoid these common mistakes

Lunch

Paper 2: Maximising Outcomes to Access Top Level Marks

• How to achieve the highest grades on paper 2
• Exploring the technique and structures expected in responses for each style of exam question and how students can fine tune their responses for success
• Review examples of responses at Grades 7 – 9, what top level students do
• Characteristics of the most successful students

Afternoon Break

• Discover ways to take a good Business student and make them a outstanding Business student
• Creating opportunities to learn from peers, and using the resources available within your school
• What does it take to go from a Grade 4 to a Grade 9
• How can you plan to overcome barriers?
• How to gain full marks in the extended-writing questions
• Analyse exemplar work to gain top marks.