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A Level Business: Which Sentence Earns Which Mark

An evaluation pack for A Level Business. Three model answers in which every single sentence is tagged for what it earns, and why.

A Level Business  ·  AQA 7132, AQA 7138 and Edexcel 9BS0  ·  Free PDF, Word and slides  ·  No sign up
Corrected on 13 August 2026.

The first version wrote the Edexcel 20 mark question in the older single proposition form. Pearson now sets it as two named options with a recommendation, so that question and its marked answer have been rewritten.

It also claimed a seven sentence answer reaches the same band as an eighteen sentence one. Both boards require range and development for the top band, so that claim is gone. The four assessment objectives and every calculation in it were checked and were already correct.

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A-Level-Business-Evaluation-Which-Sentence-Earns-Which-Mark-Community-Edition.pdf

Print ready, A4. Annotated model answers plus the lessons that run them.

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A-Level-Business-Evaluation-Which-Sentence-Earns-Which-Mark-Community-Edition-EDITABLE.docx

Editable Word file. Swap the business for one your class knows.

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A-Level-Business-Evaluation-Which-Sentence-Earns-Which-Mark-Slides.pptx

Projectable slides for the lessons in the pack.

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The problem this solves

Most model answers are handed out whole and students are told they are good. That teaches very little, because the student cannot see which part did the work. Here every model answer is broken into numbered sentences and each sentence carries a tag saying what it earns, plus a line saying why. Students can see that one sentence earns nothing, another carries analysis, and one particular sentence is the one that lifts the whole answer.

What is inside

Three model answers, fully annotated

A long one written to the AQA essay form, a second written to the current Edexcel two option form, and a short one in seven sentences with no padding anywhere in it.

A mid band answer improved live

Annotated, then rewritten on the board one sentence at a time. Seven sentences in, six out, and every surviving sentence now carries a figure, a consequence or a judgement.

Four complete lessons

Objectives, timings, tasks and full answers. Each lesson totals 60 minutes.

The checklist and the drills

What actually earns evaluation marks, the fourteen errors that cost the most with a fix for each, the twelve shapes an evaluative sentence takes, and a tagged peer marking sheet.

It is editable

The Word file contains every lesson, all three annotated models and the mid band rewrite as ordinary text. Swap the business for one your class knows and the annotations still work, because they describe what a sentence does rather than which company it mentions.

Which board

Written for AQA 7132 and Edexcel 9BS0, with a section on AQA 7138 for a Year 12 starting September 2026 or later. Model answer 1 and the short model are written to the AQA 25 mark essay form. Model answer 2 is written to the Edexcel 20 mark two option form, using the same business so students carry the context across both.

The pack now names its sources. Each question carries the specification and the mark scheme it was written against, listed in the table at the back, and every level description quoted is quoted from the board rather than paraphrased. Check yours before you use it: tariffs and descriptors differ between boards and they move.


Made by Sakari Laajoki at TBS Education Ltd Oy (company number 3614159-3, Finland).
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