Dropping Business at AS-Level

[brummiejoe]

Hey guys,

I want to have my own business, but I have gone to sixth form for personal experience.

I have taken:

• IT
• Media
• Product Design
• Business Studies

However, with business I feel that going over the course of a whole year to up my basic skills is a BIG waste of time.

If I work on starting my own business in the hours that I would have been doing business (and more, obviously).. would this be more effective?

I am asking this questions because my mom is really old fashioned about all of this and fair enough, she wants me to get good A-Levels but I don't enjoy the lessons at all.

What do you guys think?

If I took 3 Subjects at A level then I'd have 6 hours/week of free period.

If my business ideas failed, would 3 A-Levels in the subjects; Media, IT and Product Design help me at all?

I am getting a lot of coursework from my other subjects too, and if I want to have a healthy cycle of schoolwork, businesswork and leisure then I think I would need to drop to 3. If not I'd have to sacrifice one of them..

But yeah, just wanted to know.

Thanks!

[bond]

@brummiejoe,
Do you know what the business course will be teaching you? If you could find that out, post it here and we can better help you decide. Business is still a practiced skill. You can't learn it from books and expect to do well in the real world. You'll still need to apply everything you learn from books.

[brummiejoe]

The course is designed to

-develop an enthusiasm for studying business
-gain a holistic understanding of business
-develop a critical understanding of organisations and their ability to meet societys needs and wants
-understand that business behaviour can be studied from a range of perspectives
- generate enterpriseing and creative solutions to business problems and issues
-be aware of the ethical dilemmas and responsibilities faced by organisations and individuals.
-acquire a range of relevant business and generic skills, including design making, problem solving, challenging assumptions and quantifying and managing information.

So it does provide some good skills, just need a second opinion

[bond]

It's still very generic. It'll be good to take it but it's not going to actually teach you how to run a business, in my opinion. You'll still need to build a business.

[brummiejoe]

I thought that too, i can actually start building a business in the time that would have been taken up by business studies, I've decided to drop it. I can also focus on my other a levels along with my business

[teennews]

IT
Media
Product Design
Business Studies

we can deverlop about many skills Business Studies at university

[Sonny]

I took AS business, currently doing A2 now. I think it was a real eye opener for me because I didn't really know anything about business before. I also only done 3 AS levels, and now the most ucas points I can get is 320 which isn't enough for some unis which I would want to go.

[brummiejoe]

Originally Posted by Sonny

I took AS business, currently doing A2 now. I think it was a real eye opener for me because I didn't really know anything about business before. I also only done 3 AS levels, and now the most ucas points I can get is 320 which isn't enough for some unis which I would want to go.

I've had a chat with my teachers and I think that an applied course would be more suited to me.. since I like to just get on with it..

So hopefully I'll be able to take that

[bond]

Yeah, that would be cool if there was an applied course. That means what I think right? That you'll actually be implementing a business.

[Starog]

I did applied business. It's a lot of coursework but it was worth it, much better applying what you learn to a business than doing all of the theory. However my sixth form were quite strict as to what business we could "set up" for our coursework, hopefully yours will be different