IB Diploma Programme Business

Component-based qualification

Source: official International Baccalaureate specification, verified 2026-09-05. Both tiers modeled in full. Owner decision 2026-09-05 (D-129) widened this site's evidence policy so a genuine, authentic IB-origin document is usable even when mirrored on a third-party host, not only ibo.org itself, provided the primary figures are checked for internal consistency and independently corroborated. Weighting and duration for Higher Level are read directly from the official public subject brief (first assessments 2024), directly fetched this session. Exact mark totals for every component at both tiers -- not published in the two-page subject brief itself -- are read from the full official subject guide's own "Assessment outline -- SL/HL" appendix, reproduced verbatim on an IB World School's own site (Anatolia College, a non-commercial school domain hosting the guide for its own community) and independently corroborated by a second, separately hosted copy of the identical official guide on another IB World School's site (UWC East Africa), both directly fetched this session. Every Higher Level figure the mirror and the official subject brief both state (all three paper weightings and durations) match exactly, giving strong confidence in the mirror's accuracy for the figures the brief does not itself publish (all mark totals, and the Standard Level weighting/duration, since no separate Standard Level subject brief could be retrieved this session). Standard Level sits Paper 1 and Paper 2 plus the Business Research Project; Higher Level sits the same two papers (Paper 2 lengthened and extended to cover HL-only extension topics) plus an HL-only Paper 3 on a social enterprise, and the same Business Research Project (internally assessed, externally moderated, maximum 1,800 words, re-weighted).