A-Level Business: The Complete Year
This resource was corrected on 16 August 2026. If you downloaded it before then, take this copy instead. What changed, and every other correction we have made, is on the corrections page.
Thirty weeks planned at three hours a week. Every lesson written out with objectives, timings, tasks and full answers. Six unit assessments with mark schemes, six question banks, and thirty retrieval starters ready to project. Nothing else needed to teach the year.
Instant download of the PDF, the editable Word file and the PowerPoint. One licence covers you and your department.
Try Week 1 free, before you decide
The first week of the year, complete: two lesson pages, the tasks, the answers and the retrieval starter. Exactly the format the other 29 weeks follow.
What you get
60 taught lessons
Two per week, each on one page: objectives, minute by minute timings, a main task with real figures, and the full answers underneath.
Six unit assessments
312 marks in total, each with a complete mark scheme written to the level descriptors your board uses.
Six question banks
The third hour of each week runs on these: timed practice, then students mark from the answers provided.
30 retrieval starters
One per week, projectable, answers included. Delivered as a PowerPoint so you can open and go.
Dual coded throughout
Every lesson carries both its AQA 7132 section and its Edexcel 9BS0 theme reference, so either class can follow the same sequence.
Fully editable
The Word file holds every lesson, task, answer and mark scheme as ordinary text. Change the businesses, the figures or the order to fit your centre.
The year at a glance
| Unit | Weeks | AQA 7132 | Edexcel 9BS0 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Starting a business | 1 to 4 | 3.1 What is business | 1.5 Entrepreneurs and leaders (2.2.2 and 3.4.3 in single lessons) |
| 2. Markets and customers | 5 to 8 | 3.3 Marketing management (3.3.1–3.3.3) | 1.1 Meeting customer needs, 1.2 The market |
| 3. The marketing mix | 9 to 13 | 3.3 Marketing management (3.3.4) | 1.3 Marketing mix and strategy |
| 4. Managing people | 14 to 18 | 3.2 Managers, leadership and decision making; 3.6 Human resource management | 1.4 Managing people, 1.5 leadership content |
| 5. Finance | 19 to 24 | 3.5 Financial management | 2.1 Raising finance, 2.2 Financial planning, 2.3 Managing finance |
| 6. Operations and the wider world | 25 to 30 | 3.4 Operational management; 3.7.4 and 3.7.5 (A-level only); external environment from 3.1 | 2.4 Resource management, 2.5 External influences |
Written to be honest about what it is
It is the Year 12 half of the A-level, not both years. Edexcel Themes 3 and 4 and AQA sections 3.7 to 3.10 are the second year and are not covered by this pack, apart from six named reach-ahead moments: four Unit 6 lessons draw on AQA 3.7.4 and 3.7.5, and two lessons touch Edexcel Theme 3 (3.4.3, 3.5.3) — each says so on its own lesson line. The page says so, the cover says so, and the pack itself says so on page one.
Every figure is computed, not typed. The businesses in the tasks are written for teaching, the way exam board case material is, and the answers are calculated from the case data so they always reconcile.
Which AQA specification this is written for. Written for AQA 7132 and Edexcel 9BS0. AQA 7132 is outgoing: it runs to the summer 2027 exams, and a class starting Year 12 in September 2026 is on the new AQA 7138 specification, which this pack is not yet mapped to. Edexcel 9BS0 is unaffected and Pearson has confirmed continuity for 2026 starters. Always check your board's current specification and recent past papers for assessment detail.
Questions teachers ask
- Can I edit it? Yes. The Word file contains everything as ordinary text, and the PowerPoint holds all thirty starters.
- Can my department use it? Yes. One purchase covers you and the colleagues teaching alongside you in the same school.
- What if it is not for me? Try the free Week 1 sample first: it shows the format, the teaching approach and the level of detail. Because the full pack downloads instantly, change-of-mind refunds are not normally offered once the files have been accessed. If you are charged twice, cannot open the files, or the pack is faulty or not as described, email support@thebusiness.school and we will put it right. Your statutory rights are unaffected.
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