Welcome to IGCSE, GCSE Business Studies
The syllabus has been divided into the following sections. Each section has a collection of revision notes, interactive quizzes, crosswords, gap fills, word search quiz, case studies, worksheets and lot of other goodies.
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This section also covers most of the topics for IB Business & Management, OCR , AQA, EDEXCEL GCSE Business studies and other curriculums from across the globe.
Scheme of Assessment
Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies Syllabus code 0450
Candidates may either take 2 exam papers or 2 exam papers plus an additional coursework option.
Candidates take:
Paper 1 (1¾ hours)
Short-answer questions and structured/data response questions.
There will be no choice of questions.
50% of total marks.
If coursework option is chosen: 40% of total marks.
Paper 2 (1¾ hours)
Questions arising from a given case-study (not pre-released).
There will be no choice of questions.
50% of total marks.
If coursework option is chosen: 40% of total marks.
They may combine these exams with coursework:
Paper 3: Coursework (Centre-based assessment)*
Candidates will be required to submit a single piece of work of 3000–4000 words, which has taken about 20% of the course time for the subject as a whole. The assignment should be related to a particular business situation or problem, and should take the form of a response to a clearly formulated question.
20% of total marks.
*Teachers may not undertake school-based assessment without the written approval of CIE.
Cambridge IGCSE Syllabus and Specimen papers
The syllabus year refers to the year in which the examination will be taken.
2012 IGCSE Business Studies Syllabus (450)
2013 IGCSE Business Studies Syllabus (450)
2014 IGCSE Business Studies Syllabus (450)
You can view one or more papers for a previous session (November 2008 & November 2010 ). Please note that these papers may not reflect the content of the current syllabus.
November 2008 Paper 1 Mark Scheme (196Kb)
November 2008 Question Paper 01 (422Kb)
November 2008 Question Paper 2 (205Kb)
November 2008 Paper 2 Mark Scheme (65Kb)
November 2010 Question Paper 01 (422Kb)
November 2010 Paper 1 Mark Scheme (196Kb)
November 2010 Question Paper 2 (205Kb)
November 2010 Paper 2 Mark Scheme (65Kb)
