The Junior Cycle Business Studies specification aims to stimulate your interest in the business environment and how you interact with it.
It develops skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that allow you to make informed and responsible decisions with all of the resources available to you, ensuring your own, and society’s well-being, while becoming more self-aware as a learner.
This is an optional Junior Cycle subject and requires a minimum of 200 hours of learning
Business studies encourages you to develop an appreciation of how people's lives are shaped by economic and social factors. You are enabled to make informed decisions, to better manage your personal financial resources and to be adaptable, creative and enterprising.
Business studies also improves knowledge and understanding of good business practice and of business as a productive activity.
Three subjects follow on from Junior Cycle Business Studies at Senior Cycle: Accounting, Business, and Economics.
Each one becomes more specific and allows you to concentrate more on the subject area you choose. If you wish to study any of these subjects for the Leaving Certificate, it would be advantageous for you to have studied Junior Cycle Business Studies.
| Number of hours over 3 years | Final Exam | Classroom-Based Assessments (CBAs) | Assessments Task |
| 200 hrs minimum |
One 2-hour paper Taken at Common level Worth 90% of overall grade
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Two CBAs to be taken over 2nd & 3rd year CBA 1- Business in Action CBA 2- Business related Presentation |
Students complete a specified written reflection task which is sent to the SEC for marking. Worth 10% of overall grade
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These subjects teach the skills and knowledge needed to understand how business works.
This subject builds skills and knowledge that are particularly useful for careers in the following Career Sectors: