General Discussion of Business Studies (3 Viewers)

[Examine]

Let's try bring the Business Studies section back to life

Discuss anything related to Business Studies here. This can range from your opinions of the course and just general issues regarding assignments, the 2012 HSC exam or just the subject overall (which will be answered by previous Business Studies students).

 

[Drifting95]

Those past papers would be great !

Aiming for a 94-95 if possible for business, i was rank 1 in prelim and have completed my first hsc task but am still awaiting our marks back.

 

[Examine]

Those past papers would be great !

Aiming for a 94-95 if possible for business, i was rank 1 in prelim and have completed my first hsc task but am still awaiting our marks back.

Nice man, what topic did you start with?

 

[Troller]

Those past papers would really help I'm aiming for 90+

 

[Examine]

And some papers are up

 

[Drifting95]

Nice man, what topic did you start with?

Operations, we're doing finance in term 1. I'm in spiritual Being's class lol.

 

[Examine]

Operations, we're doing finance in term 1. I'm in spiritual Being's class lol.

Hahah nice. Operations was probably my favourite topic and I'd say Finance was the most technical.

 

[RivalryofTroll]

Aiming for 91+ in Business Studies.

Prelim Final Rank: 2/40

First HSC Assessment: Tied Rank 8th out of 30ish kids. (went down )

The test was pure MC questions. Got 26/30 (did some overthinking for like 2 questions... 2 questions got wrong because didn't pay careful attention to syllabus details...)

 

[Drifting95]

Aiming for 91+ in Business Studies.

Prelim Final Rank: 2/40

First HSC Assessment: Tied Rank 8th out of 30ish kids. (went down )

The test was pure MC questions. Got 26/30 (did some overthinking for like 2 questions... 2 questions got wrong because didn't pay careful attention to syllabus details...)

Why would they give you just MC questions? that's quite strange.... We had to do an in class essay.

 

[Examine]

Why would they give you just MC questions? that's quite strange.... We had to do an in class essay.

I'm guessing that the school is trying to expose them to MC questions (arguably the most deceptive part of the exam)

 

[RivalryofTroll]

Why would they give you just MC questions? that's quite strange.... We had to do an in class essay.

Well, Economics had a pure MC test as well. Except that was out of 40. Got 39/40 for Eco MC though

Next Eco assessment = Short Answers + Essay (no MC)

As for Business, I think it's going to be a Marketing Report?

 

[Examine]

Also, staring from January next year, for every 2 months I will be giving my Business Studies Folder out for the person who has contributed to this thread the most. (Through asking for advice, giving advice, reporting in with their progress, disussing dotpoints of the syllabus and generally stimulating the activity of this thread to benefit all who visit it)

Details of what is in the folder can be seen here: http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=297433

 

[nerdasdasd]

Business studies wasn't that hard . Remembering and applying concepts . Marketing was my favourite option . If anyone needs revision , then pm me

 

[Drifting95]

Business studies wasn't that hard . Remembering and applying concepts . Marketing was my favourite option . If anyone needs revision , then pm me

How'd you go?

 

[nerdasdasd]

How'd you go?

I got an average of 81% in school (assessment mark). 80% for the HSC. I probably lost some marks in the mc and short answers.

 

[Drifting95]

I got an average of 81% in school (assessment mark). 80% for the HSC. I probably lost some marks in the mc and short answers.

Not bad, what would you say is the most difficult section of the exam? MC, short answer or Extended response.

 

[Examine]

Not bad, what would say is the most difficult section of the exam? MC, short answer or Extended response.

Depends. Once you get at the higher end (Band 6 level) I'd say that MC is probably the hardest since it's the most deceptive (though you can prepare for this by doing lots of revision questions). Short answers are getting harder because you need to implement contemporary issues nowadays and the general level of difficulty has risen. Section III and IV you can do well when you get the general gist of things.

But in my opinion (though mainly because I didn't do enough revision for MC):
Short answers < Section III < Section IV < MC

 

[Sunners]

It's my third best subject behind SOR and General Maths. I got 84% in the first task (A 45 minute exam), 21 out of 25, which was alright. I've got a good class teacher and this term we had another teacher who ran additional learning sessions at lunch time. To study, I put everything into a grid, as my teacher told me and I found it works well. I've been working on extended responses throughout the term, I've switched off a bit but I'll be back on in the term. We did Finance first and we're doing operations this term. I'm confident in getting a good result, I'm aiming for a Band 6.

 

[Aysce]

Very nice thread so far, Examine. Although I didn't do too well in business, I also found MC to be the most deceptive/difficult part.

 

[Examine]

Very nice thread so far, Examine. Although I didn't do too well in business, I also found MC to be the most deceptive/difficult part.

I'd say your mark was in the higher end.