A level Business: Exam Structure by Board

Your Teacher Information Pack for A level Business: how it is assessed for each board, key dates for summer 2027, and links to specifications, past papers and grade boundaries.

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Entries: Ofqual provisional entries, summer 2026 (rounded to the nearest 5).

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Exam structure by board

Pick your board to see every paper with its length, marks and weighting, plus practicals, booklets and links.

AQA A-level Business (7132)

First taught 2015 · being replaced

Paper	Time	Marks	Weight
Paper 1: Business 1	2 h	100	33.3%
Paper 2: Business 2	2 h	100	33.3%
Paper 3: Business 3	2 h	100	33.3%

Full AQA pack · specification on the AQA website

Pearson Edexcel A level Business (9BS0)

First taught 2015 · first exams 2017

Paper	Time	Marks	Weight
Paper 1: Marketing, people and global businesses	2 h	100	35%
Paper 2: Business activities, decisions and strategy	2 h	100	35%
Paper 3: Investigating business in a competitive environment	2 h	100	30%

Full Pearson Edexcel pack · specification on the Pearson Edexcel website

OCR A Level Business (H431)

First taught 2015 · first exams 2017 · being replaced

Paper	Time	Marks	Weight
Component 01: Operating in a local business environment	2 h	80	33.3%
Component 02: The UK business environment	2 h	80	33.3%
Component 03: The global business environment	2 h	80	33.3%

Full OCR pack · specification on the OCR website

WJEC Eduqas A level Business (A510QS)

First taught 2015 · first exams 2017

Paper	Time	Marks	Weight
Component 1: Business Opportunities and Functions	2 h 15 min	80	33.3%
Component 2: Business Analysis and Strategy	2 h 15 min	80	33.3%
Component 3: Business in a Changing World	2 h 15 min	80	33.3%

Full WJEC Eduqas pack · specification on the WJEC Eduqas website

Coming next: AQA A-level Business (new) (7138), first teaching 2026, first exams 2028. Accredited; papers, lengths and marks are in the spec PDF, which the fetcher cannot open - not stored yet. Source.

Coming next: OCR A Level Business (new) (H436), first teaching 2026. Accredited by Ofqual for first teaching September 2026; three 2-hour papers of 90 marks, each 33⅓%: Business activity, marketing and people; Operations, finance and external influences; Strategy, risk and managing change. No AS listed. Source.

Key dates

Official documents

• Grade boundaries: AQA
• Grade boundaries: Pearson Edexcel
• Grade boundaries: OCR
• Grade boundaries: WJEC Eduqas
• Past papers: AQA
• Past papers: Pearson Edexcel
• Past papers: OCR
• Past papers: WJEC Eduqas

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