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Edexcel GCSE Business revision for teachers

The activities on this page are mapped to Edexcel GCSE Business 1BS0 and marked as the student works, so nothing comes back to you. The specification runs in two themes, investigating small business and building a business, and our content is currently split evenly between them with 22 live activities each. They're grouped below by what they're useful for rather than listed alphabetically. Eighteen of them include a calculation a student has to type rather than pick from a list, which is the part of Business revision that most often gets skipped. What we can't tell you is which of your students has worked through any of it.

This page lists what we actually have for Edexcel GCSE Business 1BS0. It's built from the live activities rather than typed by hand, so it's accurate on the day you read it.

What the specification covers, and what we have

Edexcel 1BS0 is organised into two themes rather than a long list of topics. Theme 1, investigating small business, runs from enterprise and entrepreneurship through to external influences. Theme 2, building a business, covers growth and then the four functional areas: marketing, operations, finance and human resources.

Our coverage is currently even, at 22 live activities on each theme. That's worth saying because it isn't typical. Most subjects here are stronger at the start of the course than the end, simply because that's the order things get built in, and Business happens not to be.

How the activities are grouped

The groups come from what each activity is made of rather than from a label somebody typed. A short run of recall questions gets tagged as a starter; something longer that leans on assessed questions gets tagged for intervention.

One tag is deliberately missing. Every Business activity we have suits homework, so a "good for homework" heading would contain the entire page and tell you nothing. The groups you see below are the ones that actually narrow the list.

The calculations

Business is the subject where revision most often skips the quantitative side, because recall questions are quicker to write and quicker to mark.

Eighteen of the activities here include at least one question where the student types a value. That matters more than it sounds: with four options on screen, a student can often reach the right answer by elimination without doing the arithmetic at all. Typing it removes that route.

Using them in a lesson

The three activities embedded further down are playable here without an account, so you can see exactly what a student sees before setting anything.

For setting these as homework and what you do and do not get back, see revision homework that marks itself. For a short repeated cycle with a recheck built into it, revision intervention a department can sustain has the shape. To put several in front of one class in a set order, build a sprint and share a single link.

Past papers for the same specification

Our past paper archive carries Edexcel's own Business papers and mark schemes, free and unaltered. They're the better source for applied and case-study style questions, which these activities deliberately do not try to replicate.

What this page does not do

It doesn't track anything. There's no list of who opened a link or how far they got, so your own assessment data stays the measure.

It doesn't rehearse an unseen case study. It builds the knowledge a student needs before that becomes possible.

It isn't a scheme of work. For the shape of a revision programme to drop these into, see how to structure a GCSE revision programme.

Every live Business activity for Edexcel

44 activities, all mapped to Edexcel/Pearson GCSE Business (1BS0).

Good for intervention (33)

Good for mock preparation (20)

Good for independent study (19)

Good for starter (6)

Good for cover lesson (1)

Product Design and Life Cycle 20 min

Good for tutor time (1)

Why Businesses Start 13 min

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Edexcel Business 13 minutes

Why Businesses Start

10 steps, 6 interactive, 6 activity types.

Best used for

Starter Tutor time Intervention

Starter: Short enough to open a lesson and still leave time to teach.
Tutor time: Fits a short tutor slot without being cut in half.
Intervention: Mostly questions, so it finds the gap quickly.

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A company starts selling reusable coffee cups because more and more customers want to cut down on plastic waste. Why has this new idea come about?

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Edexcel Business 15 minutes

Pricing Strategies

12 steps, 8 interactive, 9 activity types.

Best used for

Starter Independent study Mock preparation

Starter: Short enough to open a lesson and still leave time to teach.
Independent study: Explains before it asks, so a student can work alone.
Mock preparation: Asks students to build an answer, not just recognise one.

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A new smartphone launches at a very high price, which is then lowered over the following months. Which strategy is this?

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Edexcel Business 15 minutes

Business Aims and Objectives

13 steps, 9 interactive, 9 activity types.

Best used for

Starter Independent study Intervention

Starter: Short enough to open a lesson and still leave time to teach.
Independent study: Explains before it asks, so a student can work alone.
Intervention: Mostly questions, so it finds the gap quickly.

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Which of these is an OBJECTIVE rather than an aim?

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Common questions

Which Business specification is this for?

Edexcel/Pearson GCSE Business 1BS0. Each activity names the specification it's mapped to on its own page, so you can check rather than take our word for it. Other boards' Business content sits under their own specifications.

Does it cover both themes?

Yes, and fairly evenly: 22 live activities on Theme 1, investigating small business, and 22 on Theme 2, building a business. That's unusual across our subjects, most of which are stronger at the start of the course than the end.

Is there any calculation practice?

Yes. Eighteen of the activities include at least one question where the student types a value rather than choosing from options, so there's no multiple-choice list to work backwards from. Break-even, margins and cash flow are the usual candidates.

Can I use these for case study preparation?

Partly. The activities test the underlying knowledge a student needs before they can apply it to an unseen context, but they aren't built around a pre-release case study, and we'd rather say so than imply otherwise. The past papers are the better source for applied practice.

Will I see who has done them?

No. Following a shared link records nothing about who followed it, which is a deliberate choice about children's data rather than a missing feature.

How long does each one take?

Most sit between seven and fifteen minutes, and every module page states its own length. Within each group below the shortest come first.

Put one in front of a class

Tell us the subject and how long you have. You get a link to hand out, and it marks itself.

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