As part of GCSE in Business and Enterprise, students will complete several components across the two years. 

The first formal assessment for Component 1 will take place in February 2024. For this component, students will be supervised to complete a non-examined assessment. They will be asked to write about a micro, small or medium enterprise, this would typically be a business with a maximum of 249 employees. The students can choose the business they wish to research, they will need to find out information about the enterprise and the entrepreneur who runs the business. The aim is to find out what they do, to make their business successful.