GCSE (from 2009)Citizenship Studies - J269 (short course J029)

What are the changes?

What changes, and what stays the same for Applied business?

 

What changes

What stays the same

Structure and Content

  • There will be a two-unit single award and four-unit double award.
  • There will be two controlled assessment units
  • The terminal assessment rule will apply – 40% must be done at the end of the course.
  • There will no longer be a unit about finance – but learners' understanding of finance will be assessed in unit A243.
  • The existing unit 2 (people and business) will now be a part of units A241 and A243.
  • Question papers will retain a familiar feel.

Assessment

  • Units A241 and A243 will be examined.
  • Units A242 and A244 will be controlled assessment units that you post to us or upload to OCR Repository for external moderation.
  • The way we test examinations, and the language we use will be the same.