CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL
AS & A Level Business Tutor
Syllabus code: 9609
- Think strategically about business choices.
- Turn case evidence and numbers into a practical, supported decision.
Your lessons with Mihir Sir
- 10+ years of teaching experience
- One-to-one and group classes
- Mumbai/Thane and online
- Personalised pace and learning goals
01
THE COURSE MAP
What students learn
- Business and its environment: objectives, enterprise and stakeholders.
- Human resource management and organisational decisions.
- Marketing decisions and the interpretation of market information.
- Operations management, productivity and capacity.
- Finance and accounting for business performance.
- A Level strategy across the different business functions.
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WHERE IT GETS TRICKY
Common difficulties
- Making a recommendation that overlooks the firm’s constraints.
- Leaving a calculated figure disconnected from the business problem.
- Evaluating departments separately when the decision affects them together.
03
FROM STUCK TO CLEAR
How I teach this subject
- Identify the decision, the available options and the limiting factors.
- Work from numerical evidence to its operational or financial implication.
- Connect marketing, people, operations and finance in a coherent argument.
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PREPARE WITH A PURPOSE
Exam support
- AS Paper 1: business concepts and essay responses.
- AS Paper 2: business concepts applied to data-response tasks.
- A Level Paper 3: business decision-making from case information.
- A Level Paper 4: business strategy and extended evaluation.
- Timed practice: prioritise evidence and justify realistic recommendations.
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BETWEEN LESSONS
Resources provided
- Function-by-function notes and strategy revision maps.
- Quantitative exercises with explained methods and workings.
- Case packs, decision frameworks and annotated response plans.
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A CLOSER LOOK
Subject-specific questions
Can every option be ranked by its expected profit?
- Consider feasibility, stakeholder effects and longer-term consequences.
- Explain which factor matters most for this organisation.
What if a case study leaves information out?
- Identify the missing information that could change the decision.
- State a reasonable condition rather than inventing a fact.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Let’s get started.
- Share your level, learning priorities and preferred timings.