General Thoughts: Business Studies (1 Viewer)

Rafy

Retired
Joined
Sep 30, 2004
Messages
10,719
Gender
Female
HSC
2005
Uni Grad
2008
How'd you find the exam? Share your overall thoughts here
 

SandyS1995

Member
Joined
Oct 9, 2011
Messages
62
Gender
Female
HSC
2012
I thought it was hard but everyone thought it was easy.. :s um ok.
 

DukuNChu

New Member
Joined
Sep 4, 2011
Messages
15
Gender
Male
HSC
2012
Does anyone know how many marks i'd lose if i forgot about the key recommendations in the executive summary? I forgot about it, but I asked my teacher and apparently HSC markers don't mark on the key recommendations anymore
Other then that, good exam, hopefully get a raw of > 90
 

Dash8

Member
Joined
Mar 6, 2012
Messages
127
Gender
Male
HSC
2012
Probably easier than I was expecting thank god....was majorly stressing out about it but I feel better now....no idea if I got good marks but at least I answered everything :D how many pages did people write for the last two sections? I wrote two booklets (6 pages) each.
 

Examine

same
Joined
Dec 14, 2011
Messages
2,373
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
2013
Good exam. Section 4 was a bit weird and 24b was also weird but overall pretty good.
 

DukuNChu

New Member
Joined
Sep 4, 2011
Messages
15
Gender
Male
HSC
2012
I wrote 10 pages for stimulus response and 6 pages for the case study response. But in the end it really doesn't matter about how many pages you write, as long as the content within it is good you'll get the marks. I knew people who wrote 10 pages and got 15/20 and people who wrote 3 pages and got 18, really can't judge, but it's a good comparison against others I guess.
 

KierenTran

jenko
Joined
Oct 10, 2011
Messages
52
Gender
Male
HSC
2012
easy this exam... hopefully 90+ raw mark. Wrote 9 pages for report and 6 for essay
 
Last edited:

Abanious

Member
Joined
Sep 26, 2012
Messages
79
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
felt very good. wrote 9 pages for report, but the essay imo was not very good. overall, i think i did well... hopefully 85 + raw
 

NinaChapps

Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2011
Messages
53
Location
Parramatta, Sydney
Gender
Female
HSC
2012
I didn't study human resources as much as the others so 24b was completely guess work , but other than that I was pretty happy with it.
 

DukuNChu

New Member
Joined
Sep 4, 2011
Messages
15
Gender
Male
HSC
2012
How'd you deal with the stimulus response? Didn't you need HR strategies for that too?
 

Abanious

Member
Joined
Sep 26, 2012
Messages
79
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
used strats to resolve disputes, performance management, hrm indicators to monitor performance, etc..
 

jayq94

Member
Joined
May 13, 2012
Messages
33
Gender
Male
HSC
2012
It was very easy

I think they went easy on us because we were disadvantaged by having a new syllabus
 

carpe_diem

Member
Joined
Sep 2, 2011
Messages
179
Location
Gotham City
Gender
Female
HSC
2012
They asked for case study material in SA. WUT?! But luckily I had looked over some notes and the exact same Q came up, so it wasn't too bad. The finance essay Q was weird, but managed to write 6 pages for it, so YAY.
 

gr_111

Member
Joined
May 2, 2012
Messages
162
Gender
Male
HSC
2012
They asked for case study material in SA. WUT?! But luckily I had looked over some notes and the exact same Q came up, so it wasn't too bad. The finance essay Q was weird, but managed to write 6 pages for it, so YAY.
Yeah, what was the go with asking for examples? Did you actually have to use case studies, or could you just refer to generic aspects of a business?
 

Jatz2012

New Member
Joined
Oct 3, 2012
Messages
11
Gender
Male
HSC
2012
the finance question was easy 1 wrote 5 booklets. the hr and operations question was odd. 24b was a bitch since i didnt bother studying that part. the rest of the exam was easy. i finished both mc and sa in 1 hour leaving me with 2 hrs to kill for them long response. i have only 1 exam left and thats senior science how many have you guys got left to do?
 

lgnorance

Member
Joined
Oct 2, 2012
Messages
98
Gender
Female
HSC
2003
exam was too easy, which means they'd be nuts on the marking criteria to 'differentiate students'. fml.
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)

Top