2025 Pearson Edexcel A Level Business Mark Scheme Paper 3 (9BSO/03: Investigating business in a competitive environment)

Mark Scheme (Results)
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in Business (9BS0)
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Paper 03 Investigating businessin a competitive
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environment
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, General Marking Guidance
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• All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must
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mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the
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last.
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• Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be
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rewarded for what they have shown they can do rather than penalised
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for omissions.
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• Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not x e x e x e x e x e x e x e x e




according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie.
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• There is no ceiling on achievement. All marks on the mark scheme
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should be used appropriately.
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• All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded.
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x Examiners should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the
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xanswer matches the mark scheme. Examiners should also be
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xprepared to award zero marks if the candidate’s response is
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not worthy of credit according to the mark scheme.
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• Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide the
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principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification may
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be limited.
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• When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark
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scheme to a candidate’s response, the team leader must be consulted.
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• Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the candidate has xe xe xe xe xe xe xe xe xe




replaced it with an alternative response.
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