Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Form 3 Business Studies Paper 1 End Term 3 2026 Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  This paper assesses key commercial concepts including product promotion, business ideation, market structures, accounting equations, and trade documentation. It is ideal for end-of-year school-based national assessment preparation towards the end of the term, and can also be effectively administered as a mid-term assessment for schools that have completed the syllabus early at the beginning of the term.

  • Duration: 2 Hours
  • Total Marks: 100 Marks
  • Number of Questions: 25 Questions (1 – 25)
  • Structure: 25 Compulsory Short-Answer Questions (100 Marks)

  It covers the following topics:

  • Advantages of personal selling in product promotion
  • Transport concepts: modes, means, methods of propulsion, and terminals
  • Sources of business ideas and entrepreneurial resource identification
  • Characteristics of economic resources and classification of business activities
  • Classification of production activities: primary, secondary, and tertiary production
  • Importance and core objectives of preparing a business plan
  • Benefits of internet communication in modern commerce
  • Consumer protection measures against trader exploitation
  • Balance sheet equation and computation of missing financial figures
  • Criteria used to determine the size of a business firm
  • Circumstances that minimize the need for extensive warehousing space
  • Disadvantages of public limited companies and open office layout advantages
  • Characteristics of business assets and features of life assurance policies
  • Features of oligopolistic market structures
  • Capital adjustment calculations using the balance sheet equation
  • Factors influencing firm decisions on what goods to produce
  • Home trade commercial documents: catalogues, invoices, cash sale receipts, and statements of account
  • Analysis and causes of a rightward shift in the market demand curve
  • Criteria for choosing appropriate distribution channels
  • Corporate social responsibility of manufacturing enterprises towards local communities
  • Comparative evaluation of written postal letters versus telephonic communication
  • Unethical practices in product promotion and advertising
• File Size:

  137.53 KB
• Length:

  6 pages
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Form 3
• Subject:

  Business Studies
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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