Preparatory work

Firstly, buy the textbook and visit  the AQA website and look at the syllabus https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/business/as-and-a-level/business-7131-7132

Get informed!  Starting points for wider reading, watching and listening are:

Newspapers/Magazines: Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Economist, 

TV, Radio, podcasts: Dragons’ Den, The Bottom Line, In Business, Business Weekly, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/factual/money/player

TED Talks

Summer preparation:

Get into the habit of, or continue to, following the business news

Newspapers

Radio & TV reports

Websites

Podcasts

Then, if you’re convinced that you’d like to pursue A Level Business Studies, hand in a sheet of paper with the following title:

“2 business questions I am going to ask my teacher in September”

Think carefully about these. Don’t write them out until the end of the summer after you have done your research. Leave space under each question for your teacher to write his/her answer.

Resources to obtain

Textbook: AQA Business  for A Level. Ian Marcouse ISBN 9781471835698

Recommended reading lists for A Level Business Students:

https://www.tutor2u.net/business/blog/aqa-as-business-unit-1-recommended-reading-list

https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/my-top-30-books-for-economics-and-business-reading-in-2017