Online business studies tutoring
Business studies looks familiar because students see businesses every day. Exams ask for something specific: apply a model to an unfamiliar case, calculate a ratio or break-even point correctly, and recommend a decision with reasons.
Business studies at every stage
Course names vary by country and board. Tutors follow the one the student is taking and use its case material and question style.
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Middle school
- What businesses do
- Customers and markets
- Simple costs and profit
- Enterprise and ideas
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High school
- Market research and the marketing mix
- Motivation and organisational structure
- Production methods and quality
- Break-even and cash flow
- GCSE and IGCSE case questions
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Pre-university
- Strategy and decision-making
- Ratio and financial analysis
- Investment appraisal
- SWOT, Ansoff and decision trees
- Change and the external environment
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University & adults
- Introductory management
- Marketing principles
- Organisational behaviour
- Business finance modules
Curricula we teach to
Tutors follow the business studies syllabus, terminology and exam style of the student’s own curriculum and board.
Live, one-to-one and online
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Live video
Tutor and student see and hear each other throughout, so questions get answered as they come up.
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Shared whiteboard
Both write on the same board in real time: worked examples, diagrams and the student’s own attempts.
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Progress updates
Families hear what was covered and what the student should practise before the next lesson.
How tutors approach business studies
Applied to the case
Answers marked “generic” use the facts given: the firm’s size, market, figures and objectives. Tutors read case material with the student and highlight usable evidence.
Balanced recommendations
Students practise weighing evidence and saying what a decision depends on, instead of sitting on the fence or giving a one-sided view.
Finance calculations made routine
Break-even, cash-flow forecasts, ratios and investment appraisal carry many marks. They are built step by step on a shared spreadsheet, then interpreted.
Business tools used with purpose
SWOT, Ansoff’s matrix, decision trees and force-field analysis are taught as ways to support a judgement, not as diagrams to reproduce.
What families say about business studies lessons
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Business studies: questions families ask
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Talk to a coordinatorNo, though they overlap. Economics looks at how markets and whole economies work; business studies looks at decisions inside individual organisations, such as marketing, people, operations and finance. Many students take both, and we tutor both, often with the same focus on diagrams, data and evaluation.
Tutors can explain the criteria, help a student think through what makes a suitable question and sources, and practise analysis on other examples, within IB and school rules. The work must be written by the student, and tutors will not write or edit any part of it.
Yes. Lessons can concentrate on break-even, cash flow, income statements, ratio analysis and investment appraisal, including the interpretation questions that follow the calculations. Students who avoid these topics limit their grade, and they are very teachable one to one, with plenty of exam-style practice.
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