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Business A level distance learning course

Course Price

A level Business Key Facts

  • PRICE: £475
  • TIME REQUIRED: 700 hours
  • EXAMS: Summer Only
  • SPECIFICATION: AQA 7132
  • Available as an AS level specification AQA 7131
Business A level distance learning course

A Business Course for a changing business environment

This is a Business A level course for the AQA specification.

Business A level will give you a thorough grounding in the skills required for today’s rapidly changing business world.

Employers are always keen to employ individuals with a good understanding of business and this course will provide you with exactly that. You’ll gain skills in all aspects of running a business and we even cover the skills required to start your own.

This is an exciting course which changes the emphasis of the subject to genuinely make the student a better business person.

This course has been designed to help students develop key business skills which will help them both continue on to  university and improve their employability. Students will learn to:

  • Analyse data
  • Think critically about issues
  • Make better business decisions

The course itself will be split into the following 10 modules:

Business AS Level

  1. What is business?
  2. Managers, leadership and decision making
  3. (Decision making to improve) marketing performance
  4. (Decision making to improve) operational performance
  5. (Decision making to improve) financial performance
  6. (Decision making to improve) human resource performance

Additional topics for the Business A level

  1. Analysing the strategic position of a business
  2. Choosing strategic direction
  3. Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
  4. Managing strategic change

The new Business A level course prepares students for the AQA business syllabus 7131/7132.


AS Level Assessment

The AS level component of the course can be taken separately. There are two examinations of 1 hour 30 minutes.

Full A Level Assessment

The full A level is examined by 3 examinations of 2 hours which cover the full AS and A level syllabus.

Whilst this course is split into AS and 2nd Year sections, in order to be awarded an A level, students will need to sit the AS and 2nd Year components of the course in one summer examination sitting. The AS level may be examined and awarded separately but will not count towards the A level award.


Prior Study

You will need to have 4 GCSE’s grade C/4 or above to study this A level.

If you have other relevant qualifications or experience which you feel would allow you to start an A level business studies course, please contact one of our student advisers on 0800 975 75 75.


Dynamic Learning

Throughout your studies, you will be given a log in for Hodder and Stoughton’s Dynamic Online Learning Platform where you will have access to:

  • A free ebook copy of the supporting textbook
  • Digital Exam Practice

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