The theme of the recent UK recession explored in the June 2010 exam provided the first experience for many schools and colleges of tackling a BUSS4 research theme. Now that the 2011 research task is upon us, I have been looking back and reflecting on some of the things our students did last year which seemed to work and might be repeatable this year. The ideas presented here have been collected from students, teachers in other schools, business studies websites or from ideas heard on courses, and I hope they all may help you towards completing a successful BUSS4 research task.
When the research theme was released last year, I remember feeling a little unnerved by the size of the subject. How on earth can you research something quite so vast? The handful of explanatory bullet points provided by the AQA examiners did give some useful pointers, but even then it seemed that we were facing an uphill struggle. To find strong and relevant examples that we could use as ‘research’ among such a mass of data would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, wouldn’t it?
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