Business - How did you get on?

EI787

HL Paper

OL Paper


So what did ye think of it? I did HL and thought it was fair. ABQ seemed ok and short questions were mostly alright.

Flyer1

Did the HL paper, reckon I got a fairly good grade.

All good fair questions.

Alvis

I found it handy enough. I answered Q2, Q5, Q6 and Q7 for the long Questions.

Wasn't so sure on how to "Illustrate the impact of new technologies on business opportunities.", I made points about various new technologies (online music, HDTV) and then showed some business opportunities.

Had about 3 mins to spare at the end.

tasha1

Did Higher..

Was So Worried Beforehand But It Was Actually Not Too Bad..

Nice ABQ Methinks..

Hand Still Hurts..

oleary91

Alvis wrote: »

I found it handy enough. I answered Q2, Q5, Q6 and Q7 for the long Questions.

Wasn't so sure on how to "Illustrate the impact of new technologies on business opportunities.", I made points about various new technologies (online music, HDTV) and then showed some business opportunities.

Had about 3 mins to spare at the end.

I said about online shopping and video conferencing and all that

conormob

Answerd everything i had to i havent a clue how i done but i think the ABQ was the easiest part of it.

john-btid

I took the higher level and was hopeing on an A.But the length of the paer was a bit runreal i didnt have half as much as i wished too.I got all the short questions out and they were very easy,the long questions out and really well answered but when in came to the ABQ well that wasnt grt.The questions were very good do.


Anyone else find the time factor an annoyance?

1huge1

Nice enough paper, nothing I didnt understand, think I did well in it.

did questions 1,3,4 and 7.

timed it well with about 6 minutes to go when i finished.

Didnt really bother to look over it, nothing much I could do at that stage

KeyLimePie

omg
omg
omg
omg
i eat when i'm upset
i've had 3 cornettos
so far
that's all i have to say about it

oleary91

john-btid wrote: »

I took the higher level and was hopeing on an A.But the length of the paer was a bit runreal i didnt have half as much as i wished too.I got all the short questions out and they were very easy,the long questions out and really well answered but when in came to the ABQ well that wasnt grt.The questions were very good do.


Anyone else find the time factor an annoyance?

Yep just got it finished......Well not completly finished as I just rushed the part b and c cause I only had 5 mins left

brazilicious

ran tooooooootally out of time! id say what i did went pretty well but i could have done with like, another half hour! anyone else thing the ABQ was a dream?? spent way too long on it but it was practically spelled out for us i thought...the link thingys were everywhere...twas great!

john-btid

my ABQ was unreal crap lol i wrote a page on the 4ps and i could write for days on them,time was just a huge burdin

tasha1

john-btid wrote: »

I took the higher level and was hopeing on an A.But the length of the paer was a bit runreal i didnt have half as much as i wished too.I got all the short questions out and they were very easy,the long questions out and really well answered but when in came to the ABQ well that wasnt grt.The questions were very good do.


Anyone else find the time factor an annoyance?

Totally.. 2fm guy said short questions and abq by 3.15

Got it done by 3.25.

Totally wrote like mad for long questions and was writing until we were told to stop..

orangetictac

Test should be 4 hours!
Had to leave out info just to keep moving on.
ABQ was the best one i have seen(as in it had quotable material in it)
Shorts weren't as easy as normal.
But longs were nice, worded weirdly sometimes and they wanted alot of examples.

A question, what new product did ye do for q7?? I made an avocado chocolate bar.

Prototype development. The green pigment in the chocolate was unappealing:p:pac:

fivetwenty

Someone explain the correct version of the following;

Offer v Invitation To Treat
Delivery Van Finance - Medium Term Loan?

For the Strategic v Tactical Planning Q - I defined each perfectly, only the names were the other way round! What marks will I get?

john-btid

orangetictac wrote: »

Test should be 4 hours!
Had to leave out info just to keep moving on.
ABQ was the best one i have seen(as in it had quotable material in it)
Shorts weren't as easy as normal.
But longs were nice, worded weirdly sometimes and they wanted alot of examples.

A question, what new product did ye do for q7?? I made an avocado chocolate bar.

Prototype development. The green pigment in the chocolate was unappealing:p:pac:

haha i did almost the same thing with the a nuts chocolate bar lol

orangetictac

tasha1 wrote: »

Totally wrote like mad for long questions and was writing until we were told to stop..

Ha when our supervisor said stop everyone just kept going and didnt even acknowledge himup.:p

john-btid

fivetwenty wrote: »

Someone explain the correct version of the following;

Offer v Invitation To Treat
Delivery Van Finance - Medium Term Loan?

For the Strategic v Tactical Planning Q - I defined each perfectly, only the names were the other way round! What marks will I get?

i was looking at marking scheme they will deducte uyou very little like only 2 or 3 marks

orangetictac

john-btid wrote: »

haha i did almost the same thing with the a nuts chocolate bar lol

:pac::pac: After my Prototype dev i decided to add nuts to balance out the avocado flavour:D:D:D

tasha1

orangetictac wrote: »

Ha when our supervisor said stop everyone just kept going and didnt even acknowledge himup.:p

I'd already had an argument with mine today so i thought best not.. :]

Adam08

(C) Evaluate the contributions that Stock Control and Credit Control make to the successful

management of a business. Use examples in your answer. (20 marks)

Could anyone help me out with this one? I messed up the supply of services act.

john-btid

orangetictac wrote: »

:pac::pac: After my Prototype dev i decided to add nuts to balance out the avocado flavour:D:D:D

i luv it haha

orangetictac

that was a question.
I just saw control and jumped into it. hopefully the 35 pages i wrote will make up for it!

john-btid

Adam08 wrote: »

(C)

Evaluate the contributions that Stock Control and Credit Control make to the successful

management of a business. Use examples in your answer. (20 marks)

Could anyone help me out with this one? I messed up the supply of services act.

ye had to basically go into holdingtoo much stock,holding to little stock,and just in ytime production in stock

and credit go into the credit controller and his functions

Paulfarnsworth

liked it alot
was in until the end and was rushing quite a bit but i think it went grand
the abq was brilliant
answered everything and well i think after checkin my answers

brazilicious

orangetictac wrote: »

Test should be 4 hours!
Had to leave out info just to keep moving on.

totally same thing, and you kinda just want to write, "yeah i know another 2 pages worth on this"

orangetictac wrote: »

ABQ was the best one i have seen(as in it had quotable material in it)
Shorts weren't as easy as normal.

They were HORRIBLE. bout half of em had like 2 parts, as if they really really dont want anyone to get full marks in them..seriously unimpressed...
But longs were nice, worded weirdly sometimes and they wanted alot of examples.

orangetictac wrote: »

A question, what new product did ye do for q7?? I made an avocado chocolate bar.

ha ha i like it... i did an alarm clock...i dont really know why, first thing that came to mind... the bell wasnt loud enough on it though:rolleyes:

oleary91

For the prototype development one I didnt talk about a product..Will I lose alot of marks??

orangetictac

i said that:D:D:D....the control thing

tute08

It was fine! thought the section A were much harder than other years think i only answered about 5 of those, messed up my break even chart, and had to redo it! So i lost time on that didnt answer 1 whole section C question!!! I worked really hard for business and lost out on time and the section A. grrrrrrrrrr:mad:

fivetwenty

tute08 wrote: »

It was fine! thought the section A were much harder than other years think i only answered about 5 of those, messed up my break even chart, and had to redo it! So i lost time on that didnt answer 1 whole section C question!!! I worked really hard for business and lost out on time and the section A. grrrrrrrrrr:mad:

I agree, SQ's were way harder than previous years

Brooke01

EI787 wrote: »

HL Paper

OL Paper


So what did ye think of it? I did HL and thought it was fair. ABQ seemed ok and short questions were mostly alright.

HL Business ... not to bad at all !! A1 or A2 for me

john-btid

i was delighted with the short questions


i came up in the 10th short question

me and my 350,000 euro house:D
the smile on my face when i see that was epic

Father Hernandez

Very happy i must say, missed out on a whole Q because of timing but everything else was great so happy days !

Ino112

In my pre paper, I was totally stuck for time. However, for this paper, I was actually finished very early in comparison to what some of you are saying.

I re-did my break-even question when I had the 20 mins to spare at the end. I wrote near enough 1 - 1 + 1/2 pages for most questions. I do admit though that I did write incredibly fast, and stuck strictly to the time guide given on the 2FM radio program.

Good luck to all.

oleary91

john-btid wrote: »

i was delighted with the short questions


i came up in the 10th short question

me and my 350,000 euro house:D
the smile on my face when i see that was epic

Was the answer like 57,000 or something like that??

fivetwenty

oleary91 wrote: »

Was the answer like 57,000 or something like that??

54 I think it was

louise-x

ran outta time and felt like my hand was gonna fall off,
but other than that it was fairly alright...
some of the short questions were a bit tough i thought

oleary91

Oh ya thats the one..Knew it was in the 50's:D

nerd3000

an awkward question to say the least!!

just wondering, was mentioning the Credit Controller vital?

fivetwenty

From an unusual perspective, I must say that it was quite boring - the most boring one I've done yet, maybe it's because the LC is whining down now - but it just didn't have me feeling tense at ANY point.

I got 89 in the mocks so was expecting an A1 (Still possible, I did similar to my mock) but the SQ's just depressed me for the whole thing - Then the ABQ which was more of a challenge in timing rather than wit. The rest was like joining dots.

Maths had me tense, English had me delighted while I was doing it as what I wanted came up - Geography the same.

Just Business & Irish (My OL subject) these past few days have sucked the will to live out of me.

fivetwenty

nerd3000 wrote: »

an awkward question to say the least!!

just wondering, was mentioning the Credit Controller vital?

Controller?

I didn't - don't recall hearing of him either - so no I'd say

philologos

I thought the paper was perhaps one of the easiest in a long time. Good job SEC is all I can say. The ABQ and the long questions were all reasonable. I did Q1, 2, 6, and 5.

I have to say as someone who didn't touch Unit 3 at all, that was probably a very good decision given today's paper.

Now 2 days till German. :pac:

Well done all

What a nice paper.

I did Higher level and did question 1,5,6, and 7.. the short questions were really easy... and omg.. the ABQ = simplicity!

thebigcheese22

anyone know what il get if i got a wrong answer for the break even point but the diagram was ok?!

King Ludvig

Overall a very nice paper. I knew most things they were asking and Id say I could have gotten an A if I didnt run out of time Oh well still got a B

The short questions seemed a little harder than other years but were doable.

ABQ was very nice except only got half way through part C and had to move on. What did people write as their 'reccomendation'?

Long Qs all very fair. I did Qs 2, 3, 6, and 7.
Q7 was lovely, full marks Id say

orangetictac wrote: »

:pac::pac: After my Prototype dev i decided to add nuts to balance out the avocado flavour:D:D:D

I dont think for were ment to make your own product? Werent you ment to refer it to a the prototype development and feasibility study of a real product? I used Cadburys Snaps.

CCFC_Rebel

just a quick question
was the marketing mix in the abq promotion price place and product??

louise-x

CCFC_Rebel wrote: »

just a quick question
was the marketing mix in the abq promotion price place and product??

yes.

fivetwenty

I just used "car" then threw in "Ford" when I needed to instead of "company"

CCFC_Rebel

thats after bringing a smile to my face now
thanks

philologos

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

anyone know what il get if i got a wrong answer for the break even point but the diagram was ok?!

you will get marks for the method.

King Ludvig

Now that I think of it that marketing mix question on the ABQ was worth 30 marks. 5 marks for each of product, price, place and promotion......what did everyone do for the other 10 marks?