October Updates & Notices
Dear subscribers
Welcome to the October Newsletter!
We're delighted to let you know that InThinking Business Management is now collaborating with the Financial Times' "FT Schools" initiative!
This means free access to:
✅ Curated articles from the Financial Times tailored for IB Business Management lessons and beyond.
✅ Teaching notes, classroom activities, and exam-style questions (with answers provided for teachers).
✅ Resources that make global business issues engaging and relevant to students.
FT Schools enables students to connect theory and syllabus content to real-world case studies, enhance their understanding, and prepare them for exams with confidence.
Read more about this collaboration in the InThinking blog here or access the article (with lesson ideas and exam questions) on the FT Schools site page here.
Updated resources for the N25 Paper 1 pre-release
- The Paper 1 exam for SL and HL students taking exams in November 2025 will take place on Wednesday 29th October in the afternoon.
- The duration of the exam is 1 hour 30 minutes (excluding 5 minutes reading time prior to the start of the exam).
- There are plenty of ATL Activities, including extension tasks, Quizlets, and 50 exam practice questions to keep your students busy and engaged with the Walkway Ltd. pre-release here.
- HL candidates should note they have the Paper 3 exam scheduled after their Paper 1 exam on the same day.
Other updates
It's been a busy month getting Flashcards and Quizlets uploaded to support student learning and revision. Updates include:
- Unit 3.4 (Final accounts - Profit & loss account) here.
- Unit 3.5 (Profitability & liquidity ratio analysis) here.
- Unit 3.6 (Efficiency ratio analysis) for HL only students have been added here.
- Unit 4.5.4 (The 7Ps of the marketing mix: Place) have been added here.
- Unit 4.6 (International marketing) here.
- BMT 5 (Business plans) here.
- BMT 8 (Circular Business Models) here.
Other updates to InThinking Business Management include:
- 20 top tips for Paper 3 here.
- For DP1 students starting out, there is a new set of Paper 2 exam practice questions for Unit 1.1 (The nature of business) based on coffee shops adding value to their services here.
- A new case study and Paper 2 exam-style questions based on Patagonia for Unit 1.3 (Common business objectives) here. There is also a new Quizlet produced for this section of the syllabus on the same site page.
- A new Paper 2 exam question for Unit 3.7 (The difference between profit and cash flow) has been added here. This resource has been created in collaboration with Dr. Rima Puri. We think you will like the (creatively different) approach that we have taken with this resource.
- A new Paper 2 exam practice question for Unit 4.1 (Importance of market share and market leadership) has been added here. This is based on Coca-Cola's market dominance and includes a 10-mark extended response question (and answers) for HL only students.
Remember to activate Student Access from the homepage to allow your students to use these resources (free of charge).
InThinking virtual “Think-In” courses
Many thanks to the 86 teachers from across all IB regions who joined our 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬-𝘐𝘯 courses this September. These upskilling courses focused on:
- Teaching the Business Management Toolkit (BMT)
- Paper 2 quantitative techniques
- Paper 3 social enterprises (HL only)
- The Business Management Internal Assessment
- The new Business Management Extended Essay
It was a real pleasure to collaborate with you, and great to reconnect with educators from previous courses. We deeply value the commitment and contributions you bring.
If you missed out this time, do check the CPD tab on InThinking Business Management website for details of courses that will be scheduled in 2026.
We are truly grateful for your continued support. 🙏
Join us on LinkedIn
Last month, it was communicated that we will be using LinkedIn a lot more for communication purposes. Feel free to join the growing community of more than 280 IB Business Management teachers on LinkedIn here.
You can also join the InThinking WhatsApp group here. Please ensure your first and last name plus a suitable photo are on display in your profile settings. This is necessary so that we all know who we are communicating with.
Wishing you all a wonderful month ahead, and the very best for students taking exams in October and November!
Paul Hoang
