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The aim is to make sure students receive grades to progress to the next stage of their education.

We have provided detailed guidance to ensure this happens. This includes:

• Additional Assessment Materials
• guidance material on marking exemplification
  
• information on the quality assurance process and appeals
• general support around timelines and submission systems

The GCSE Business Summer 2021 support page includes links to the summer 2021 assessment materials and the overview document which has all the information in one place.

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• Go to the summer 2021 support page
• Go to the GCSE Business summer 2021 support page

These materials are available in the subject pages under ‘Summer 2021 assessment materials for centres’.

The additional assessment materials have been drawn from past paper content, from both published and unpublished material. A reminder of what this means below:

• ‘Published’:  those materials publicly available on the Pearson website and
• ‘Unpublished: ’those materials still under padlock to our centres (mainly papers from 2019/2020).

Question paper coverage is such that it allows us to draw upon our past paper content, without the need to supplement with new content.

The Additional Assessment Materials, are content organised to allow teachers the freedom to select and assess the content that they have taught their students. This should mean that teachers will have a flexible approach to assessing their students.

In order to use the organised content, teachers have been provided with a mapping grid that includes details on where this content has been drawn from, as well as information like which assessment objectives the question meets.

As suggested by the Secretary of State a proportion of this content will be drawn from unpublished materials (namely 2019/2020 papers).

The mark schemes for these questions will also be provided to teachers.

The use of additional assessment materials in assessing your students is optional. As stated in the Ofqual Consultation outcome 'It would therefore be potentially unfair to enforce compulsory use of these materials'.

• Go to the Summer 2021 assessment support materials

This training session goes through the processes and guidance that centres taking International qualifications need to be aware of for May/June 2021.

This includes up-to-date information and guidance on:

• Grading
• Quality Assurance
• Appeals
• Further support available for centres

Please note: This session focuses on the series as a whole and the International GCSE and A Level suites. We do not look in-depth at arrangements for particular subjects.

• Watch the training session

One of the forms of evidence available is the optional use of unseen test materials. These test materials can be used in two ways: As unseen materials presented to students in a controlled situation, in a specified timeframe, for them to respond to, or after the specified timeframe, in the knowledge that they may be familiar to students, used as one part of the evidence that supports the teacher grade.

The unseen assessment window has started and is open until 14 May.

Assessments must be used according to the schedule that is available on our website and in line with the approach that is outlined in your centre policy. If you are planning on adapting the assessments this can only be done after the scheduled day the assessment is due to be sat.

If a candidate cannot sit the assessment then please mark them as absent when you return the scripts to us.

Mark schemes will be available from 17 May 2021. Our Principal Examiners may refine the mark schemes and final published mark schemes will be released on 4 June. It is acceptable to use the mark schemes released on 17 May to mark assessments.

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• Go to the unseen content assessment schedule page
• Go to the International COVID updates

The aim is to make sure students receive grades to progress to the next stage of their education.

We have provided detailed guidance to ensure this happens. This includes:

• Additional Assessment Materials
• guidance material on marking exemplification
• information on the quality assurance process and appeals
• general support around timelines and submission systems

The A level Business Summer 2021 support page includes links to the summer 2021 assessment materials and the overview document which has all the information in one place.

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• Go to the summer 2021 support page
• Go to the A level Business Summer 2021 support page

These materials are available in the subject pages under ‘Summer 2021 assessment materials for centres’.

The additional assessment materials have been drawn from past paper content, from both published and unpublished material. A reminder of what this means below:

• ‘Published’: those materials publicly available on the Pearson website and
• ‘Unpublished: ’those materials still under padlock to our centres (mainly papers from 2019/2020).

Question paper coverage is such that it allows us to draw upon our past paper content, without the need to supplement with new content.

The Additional Assessment Materials, are content organised to allow teachers the freedom to select and assess the content that they have taught their students. This should mean that teachers will have a flexible approach to assessing their students.

In order to use the organised content, teachers have been provided with a mapping grid that includes details on where this content has been drawn from, as well as information like which assessment objectives the question meets.

As suggested by the Secretary of State a proportion of this content will be drawn from unpublished materials (namely 2019/2020 papers).

The mark schemes for these questions will also be provided to teachers.

The use of additional assessment materials in assessing your students is optional. As stated in the Ofqual Consultation outcome 'It would therefore be potentially unfair to enforce compulsory use of these materials'.

• Go to the summer 2021 assessment support materials

The Further Assessment Materials contain short papers focusing on key areas of the specification. Each paper contains two questions, a mark scheme and annotated exemplar answers.

The first question is always a 4 mark question to support students with answering concisely. These questions test Knowledge [K], Application [P] and Analysis [An] of Themes 1 to 4. The mark schemes gives indicative content for appropriate responses.

The second questions are extended questions with marks ranging from 8 to 12 marks. These questions test the breadth and depth of students' knowledge and understanding, and cover Themes 1 to 4. Questions focused on Themes 1 and 2 are aimed at testing students' knowledge of core business concepts and applying them to business contexts. Questions aimed at Themes 3 and 4 are intended to test students' ability to respond to more complex business information, requiring them to take a more strategic view of business opportunities and issues.

The annotated answers show how marks have been applied to the exemplar responses. These exemplar responses are not definitive and other answers are acceptable, as long as they satisfy application against the business context.

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This training session goes through the processes and guidance that centres taking International qualifications need to be aware of for May/June 2021.

This includes up-to-date information and guidance on:

• Grading
• Quality Assurance
• Appeals
• Further support available for centres

Please note: This session focuses on the series as a whole and the International GCSE and A Level suites. We do not look in-depth at arrangements for particular subjects.

• Watch the training session

One of the forms of evidence available is the optional use of unseen test materials. These test materials can be used in two ways: As unseen materials presented to students in a controlled situation, in a specified timeframe, for them to respond to, or after the specified timeframe, in the knowledge that they may be familiar to students, used as one part of the evidence that supports the teacher grade.

The unseen assessment window has started and is open until 14 May.

Assessments must be used according to the schedule that is available on our website and in line with the approach that is outlined in your centre policy. If you are planning on adapting the assessments this can only be done after the scheduled day the assessment is due to be sat.

If a candidate cannot sit the assessment then please mark them as absent when you return the scripts to us.

Mark schemes will be available from 17 May 2021. Our Principal Examiners may refine the mark schemes and final published mark schemes will be released on 4 June. It is acceptable to use the mark schemes released on 17 May to mark assessments.

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• Go to the unseen content assessment schedule page

The International AS/A level October exam series will go ahead as planned.

• Go to the International COVID updates
• Go to the exam timetables

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If you bought copies of the textbooks for this qualification the answers to the questions set in the textbooks are available.

• Go to the answers

We have secured IAL recognition from over 30 new global universities and admissions bodies.

New countries added to the list include Belarus, Israel and Turkey and we increased the recognition in popular European destinations Italy, Netherlands, Germany and Spain.

• View the latest IAL recognition update