This year represents the first time that students will be facing the challenge of taking all their A-level exams at the end of year 13. How you perform on these final three papers will dictate your overall grade in the subject. The demands on you as a student are considerable, as for the past decade, examinations have tended to be more frequent and modular in nature. This substantial step change requires a different approach in terms of teaching, learning and — perhaps most importantly — assessment of the subject. While the reforms have brought in new models, theories and frameworks (particularly in the AQA specification), arguably the most significant issue is in regards to how you will be assessed at the end of the course.
All of the exam papers are 2 hours in length and have a total of 100 marks available on each paper. On the AQA course, each paper can ask you anything from anywhere on the specification, so what you revise for paper 1 is just as relevant for the other two papers. This means that you can’t specialise in one particular aspect of the course, but the benefit is that you have to make sure you have covered everything anyway, so revising all ten sections of the course will be required for each paper. While this might seem daunting, I think it is a huge positive, as the nature of the subject is such that different functional areas impact on each other and will therefore influence the strategy of a firm in different ways. Being able to bring this all together in your responses will help you guarantee top marks.
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