May 2026 Updates and Notices

Dear subscribers

Welcome to the May 2026 Updates and Notices!

By now, your students will have completed their external assessments for Business Management. We hope the examinations were fair and accessible for all your learners.

In April, we welcomed a record 32 982 students to InThinking Business Management, all benefiting from free access - particularly valuable during this early examination session for DP Business Management.

We were delighted to receive positive feedback from many educators regarding the revision resources available on the platform, especially those designed to support students preparing for the Paper 1 Abraca pre-release case study.

One teacher, Mr. Fady Nagi from Newton Free School, Georgia 🇬🇪, shared the following:

Many thanks for taking the time to let us know this, Fady!

New Quizlets

We are also pleased to highlight the growing use of Quizlet as a valuable revision tool among both teachers and students. Its interactive features (such as flashcards, practice tests, and auditory functions) have supported learners in reinforcing key Business Management concepts and content in an engaging and flexible way.

Many educators have incorporated Quizlet into their revision strategies, helping students to consolidate their understanding and build confidence in the lead-up to examinations.

Newly added Quizlets during the past month include:

• Unit 2.7.3 (Approaches to conflict by employers) here.
• Unit 2.7.4 (Approaches to conflict resolution) has been added here.
• Unit 2.4.9 (Types of training) has been added here.
• Unit 3.2.2 (External sources of finance) here.
• Unit 3.3.1 (Types of costs) here.
• Unit 3.3.2 (Total revenue and revenue streams) here.
• Unit 4.2.2 (Segmentation, targeting, and positioning) here.
• Unit 4.4.2 (Methods/techniques of primary market research) here.
• Unit 4.5.2 (Pricing methods) here.
• Unit 5.2.1 (Operations method) here.
• Unit 5.8.4 (Innovation: incremental and disruptive) here.
• Unit 5.9.8 (Big data) has been added here.

Other site updates

Additions to the website include:

• Exam questions typically require students to state two features of the various types of for-profit organizations in Unit 1.2 (sole traders, partnerships, and limited liability companies). Teachers can download a revision poster about these types of for-profit organizations, including their features, here.
• Teachers can also download an excellent revision poster for Unit 3.8 (Investment appraisal) here, created and shared by María Pardo who teaches at American School of Valencia, Spain. Many thanks for collaborating with InThinking, María!
• New Revision Flashcards and interactive Quizlets for Unit 5.8 (Research and Development) have been added here. https://thinkib.net/businessmanagement/page/64516/58revision-flashcards-quizlet
• Teachers can also download a new revision poster for BMT 7 (Descriptive statistics: mean, mode, and median) here.
• Additional exam practice questions have been added to BMT 14 (Contribution), including make or buy decisions here.
• Our latest revision poster for the exams focuses on the MISS framework for the extended response questions in Paper 1 and Paper 2 here. Click on FAQ 10 to access this.

• It is common knowledge that break-even analysis (Unit 5.5) is the most tested topic in the syllabus, teachers can share this latest revision poster with their DP1 students here.

• Similar revision posters are also available for Unit 3.8 (Investment appraisal) for the payback period and ARR here, and the NPV method (HL only) here.
• Our "Exam papers - Topic tracker" has been fully updated to incorporate all TZ (time zone) papers for SL and HL (for November 2025 exams). You can access this resource here.

Revision (syllabus overview) posters

Teachers and students can download a full set of revision posters by clicking links below. Many thanks to Saif Nidal Attieh and his students from the Class of 2027 at Modern Montessori School, Amman, in Jordan 🇯🇴, for creating and sharing these excellent resources with the InThinking Business Management community! For teachers wishing to print these for classroom displays, we strongly recommend printing these in A3 format. The hyperlinks are below.

• Unit 1 - Introduction to Business Management here.
• Unit 2 - Human resource management (HRM) here.
• Unit 3 - Finance and accounts here.
• Unit 4 - Marketing here.
• Unit 5 - Operations Management here.

Additional revision posters created and shared by Saif and his students can be found using the following hyperlinks:

• Unit 3.4 Profit and loss account here. There are separate posters for for-profit and non-profit organizations, as per the IB syllabus. These posters are in addition to the one already created and shared by María Pardo from American School of  Valencia, Spain.
• Unit 3.4 Balance sheets here. This provides two additional posters to the one already available from María Pardo.
• Unit 3.7 Cash flow forecasts here. This poster is in addition to the excellent ones already shared by Amr Fahmy and Maria Pardo.
• Unit 3.9 Budgets here.

InThinking and FT Schools

Our latest collaboration pieces with FT Schools can be found here:

• TDK, Apple's battery supplier, takes on smart glasses rivals (TDK and Ansoff's matrix) here.
• SpaceX's ambitious world record IPO (sources of finance) here.

You can access all blogs related with FT Schools for Business Management from the site page here on InThinking.

To access all our other collaboration pieces with FT Schools, visit the FT website here (you may find it useful to bookmark this URL).

Looking ahead

Over the next month, subscribers can look forward to the following:

• Additional content and resources for the Business Management Extended Essay (first exams 2027), including a student checklist.
• Our first Internal Assessment with guidance notes to support teachers and students with this challenging aspect of the course.
• Upcoming continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities - both face to face workshops and virtual Think-In sessions.

With best wishes to you and your students in May centres with the rest of their DP exams. The IB will release results to students for the M26 session on Monday 6th July 2026at 12:00 noon GMT.

Thank you for your ongoing support, which is highly appreciated.

Paul Hoang