Making up case studies (1 Viewer)

[spoonbender]

Are we allowed to make up case studies? In last year's exam it said on the question "Using a case study, real or imaginary" or something like that. Am I still allowed to make up a case study even if the question does not say anything about it? If I use an existing business, can I make up information and stats about it? My teacher said that we can make it up because the case study is meant to show that you know the theory, but I just wanted to double check.

 

[hopethisworks]

there is no point imo. case studies also help you learn the content if you are stupid

 

[ajay12]

Probably best to know a real case study, in case their is a loophole in your case study.

 

[lyounamu]

If you are really desperate, I reckon it's possible.

However, you have to make it pretty damn reliable...

 

[JosephW]

Ive been making mine up all last year. Just missed out on first place at school and was still able to achieve a Band 6 pretty comfortably. Just use a business name belonging to a relative or something. I used my dad's car business and what ever the questioned asked, I related the business somehow to it.

Making up a case study allows more time to study the syllabus and not worrying about getting wrong information if you use a well know case study like Qantas or Oroton. Hope I helped.

 

[macca1819]

It's best to use a real case study. Some good examples are Qantas and Dominoes. But not every dot point of the syllabus is going to be fully addressed in one specific case study, so a good idea would be to get a variety of case studies so you have suffcient notes for each dot point.

In hindsight I would have done that, instead of skimming over like one page of the Qantas case study.

At the end of the day, the case study makes up all of 4-5 marks of the overall trial and external exams. You only have to use it in 1 essay. So don't stress too much over it.

 

[Tutoring C'Town]

If its one thing that students need to know when a marker is reading for an essay its:
They have been doing it for years, they know when you are making things up!

Refrain from 'making' any Case Studies up, if you put a case study into your study regime you will have no problem remembering it.

 

[the-derivative]

With Business Studies, it's pretty much common sense that you can make things up as you go along and still sound correct. What I do is, I use a real business, try and remember what I can and if I can't, I'll just make up shit for that part. It's not that hard.

Just don't do a business like Qantas, because it's so frequently used - therefore it'll be easier to find out.

Also to the OP, since he goes to my school, the question let us use a hypothetical business because they didn't teach or tell us to learn a case study in the preliminary year.