0450 · June 2024
Business Studies
Candidates found many of the topic areas in the paper challenging. This was particularly true of questions 3 and 4.
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Definitions of key terms need to be precise.
Candidates should use distinctly different application and analysis for each point of knowledge as the same point can only be credited once within a given answer.
Candidates should also be reminded that there are no application marks in part (e) of each question.
Effective evaluation is an area which continues to require developm BUSINESS STUDIES Paper 0450/11 Short Answer/Data Response Key messages
Effective evaluation is an area which continues to require development. Evaluation must include a justified decision that follows on from, but does not simply repeat, the points made earlier in the answer. The mark scheme for each part (e) question includes an example of how evaluation may be demonstrated in the answer.
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- 1Message
Definitions of key terms need to be precise.
- 2Message
Candidates should use distinctly different application and analysis for each point of knowledge as the same point can only be credited once within a given answer.
- 3Message
Candidates should also be reminded that there are no application marks in part (e) of each question.
- 4Message
Effective evaluation is an area which continues to require developm BUSINESS STUDIES Paper 0450/11 Short Answer/Data Response Key messages
- 5Message
Effective evaluation is an area which continues to require development. Evaluation must include a justified decision that follows on from, but does not simply repeat, the points made earlier in the answer. The mark scheme for each part (e) question includes an example of how evaluation may be demonstrated in the answer.
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June 2024 2024
Business Studies
Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education 0450 Business Studies June 2024 Principal Examiner Report for Teachers © 2024 BUSINESS STUDIES Paper 0450/11 Short Answer/Data Response Key messages • Definitions of key terms need to be precise. • Candidates shou
Definitions of key terms need to be precise.
Candidates should use distinctly different application and analysis for each point of knowledge as the same point can only be credited once within a given answer.
Candidates should also be reminded that there are no application marks in part (e) of each question.
Examiner insights
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- •Candidates found many of the topic areas in the paper challenging.
- •This was particularly true of questions 3 and 4.
- •Candidates had quite limited knowledge of some topics such as how an increase in non-current liabilities might affect a business, providing a clear definition of a social enterprise, and often…
- •A noticeable proportion of candidates lost marks in questions 2(c), 3(c) and 4(c) by not applying their answer to the business stated in the question stem.
- •Candidates continue to state as an analytical point that profit will rise or fall following a change in costs or price.