Pearson Edexcel GCSE Business Paper 1 2025 Mark Scheme

Download the official Pearson Edexcel GCSE Business (9–1) Paper 1: Investigating Small Business mark scheme for the Summer 2025 examination series (1BS0/01). This examiner-approved PDF contains complete answers, calculation solutions, indicative content, level descriptors, and official Pearson marking guidance used during the June 2025 GCSE Business assessments.

The mark scheme provides detailed examiner guidance for every section of the Paper 1 examination, including multiple-choice answers, break-even calculations, percentage increase calculations, average selling price calculations, profit calculations, and extended-response business analysis questions. Students can study exactly how Pearson Edexcel examiners award marks across AO1, AO2, and AO3 assessment objectives.

Section A includes official answers and examiner commentary covering business ownership, sources of finance, e-commerce, taxation, adding value, marketing mix, break-even analysis, sole traders, franchising, cash-flow forecasts, market research, and business location decisions. The mark scheme also explains how level-based marking is applied in discussion and analysis questions.

Section B focuses on Pizza Pilgrims and contains examiner-approved responses relating to competition, inflation, digital payment systems, menu expansion, pricing strategy, profitability, customer loyalty, and competitive advantage. Students can analyse how high-level answers are structured using contextual business evidence and logical chains of reasoning.

Section C centres on Teendrive and includes full indicative content for employment law, market mapping, advertising, market share growth, and evaluation of the UK economic climate. The mark scheme demonstrates how students can construct balanced evaluative judgements and achieve top-level marks in 9-mark and 12-mark GCSE Business questions.

The document also contains official level descriptors for extended-response questions, showing the differences between Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 answers, alongside guidance for evaluation, application, business terminology, logical reasoning, and justified conclusions.

Ideal for revision, self-assessment, mock exam marking, intervention sessions, classroom feedback, teacher reference, and preparation for the 2026 GCSE Business examinations, this downloadable PDF provides authentic examiner guidance and realistic examples of high-scoring Pearson Edexcel Business responses.

This document is designed for Year 10 and Year 11 students studying Pearson Edexcel GCSE Business (9–1), including students preparing for the 2026 exams, retake candidates, private candidates, and home-educated learners aiming for grades 7–9.

It is also highly valuable for business teachers, tutors, revision centres, intervention coordinators, and parents who require authentic examiner guidance, calculation solutions, evaluative-answer structures, and official Pearson assessment criteria for GCSE Business Paper 1.