Summary

• Description:

  The PDF document comprises Kapsabet High School Business Studies Paper 1 2025 Mock Exam with Marking Scheme. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  The exam paper contains 25 questions and should be completed by learners within a duration of 2 hours.

  The paper is intended for KCSE candidates and assesses understanding and application of key Business Studies concepts through short structured questions and computation-based items.

  It covers the following topics:

  • Basic human wants
  • Communication and effective communication elements
  • Government revenue and government involvement in business
  • Office management, including filing systems
  • Distribution channels and roles of wholesalers
  • Inflation and its effects
  • Types of demand
  • Classification of resources (natural, human, man-made)
  • Book-keeping: correction of a trial balance
  • Shares: ordinary vs preference shares
  • Financial ratios and their interpretation
  • Unemployment and its causes
  • Open-air markets
  • Effects of transactions on assets, liabilities, and capital
  • Entrepreneurship and functions of an entrepreneur
  • Transport decisions (air vs sea for perishables)
  • Advertising and types of advertising
  • Market features
  • Factors limiting national income growth
  • Books of original entry for stock transactions
  • Commercial banking services
  • Development goals in Kenya
  • Balance of payments improvement measures
  • Net worth (capital) computation from given balances

  The questions require learners to demonstrate clear understanding of definitions, concepts, applications in Kenyan business contexts, and accuracy in basic accounting computations.

• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  BUSINESS STUDIES

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