This Wolsey Hall course is designed to prepare you for the Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies examination which you will sit at a Cambridge exam centre.

The Programme of Study for this course is a very important document as it shows how the course links to the CAIE syllabus and highlights which pages of the coursebook to read as you progress through the topics and modules. You should download this and keep it with you as you study.

It is vitally important that you become familiar with the syllabus which can be found here.

IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE:

The examination code for IGCSE Business Studies (Graded A* to G) is 0450.

The examination code for IGCSE Business Studies (Graded 9 to 1) is 0986*.

*Exam code 0986 applies only to Zone 3 exam centres. Students taking their exam in Zone 3 may choose which grading system they prefer when they register at an exam centre by selecting either exam code 0450 or exam code 0986. Students taking their exam in the other Administrative Zones will take exam code 0450.

The IGCSE Business Studies course is examined by TWO external exam papers set by Cambridge International Examinations board. The syllabus is examined in the May/June examination series and then October/November examination series.

Paper 1: weighting is worth 50% of your overall grade. Duration: 1hr 30 mins. This paper has short-answer questions and structured/data response questions. There will be no choice of questions; students must answer all questions set.
Paper 2 weighting is worth 50% of your overall grade. Duration: 1hr 30 mins. In this paper, you will have questions arising from a given case-study on the paper (not pre-released). There will be no choice of questions; students must answer all questions set.