Daily Practice · GCSE Business
May 2019 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 2019
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2019State what CPI stands for.
- 2nd May 2019What should be the starting point when designing a marketing mix?
- 3rd May 2019State one disadvantage of a direct distribution channel.
- 4th May 2019Why must a business selling online take data protection seriously?
- 5th May 2019Explain one benefit of computer aided design.
- 6th May 2019Give one advantage of buying a franchise rather than starting an entirely independent business.
- 7th May 2019State one way an entrepreneur could generate a business idea without inventing something completely new.
- 8th May 2019Define the term stakeholder.
- 9th May 2019Define reward in the context of enterprise.
- 10th May 2019A business leases a delivery van instead of buying it. Give one advantage of leasing over buying.
- 11th May 2019What is revenue expenditure?
- 12th May 2019Explain one disadvantage of external recruitment.
- 13th May 2019Explain one benefit to a business of using a person specification when shortlisting applicants.
- 14th May 2019Name the UK law that makes it illegal to discriminate against employees based on protected characteristics such as age, sex or disability.
- 15th May 2019State the difference between legislation and ethics.
- 16th May 2019State one reason a sample of 20 people, all surveyed outside the same shop, might produce unreliable data.
- 17th May 2019Name the four stages of the product life cycle in order.
- 18th May 2019What is a 'brand extension'?
- 19th May 2019Give one reason a business might pay more to source locally.
- 20th May 2019A business produces 3,600 units a week with 12 workers. After changes it produces 4,500 with the same 12. Calculate the percentage rise in productivity.
- 21st May 2019Identify what typically happens to unemployment during a recession.
- 22nd May 2019State one characteristic a business might use to segment its market.
- 23rd May 2019Explain why a business plan is not a guarantee of success.
- 24th May 2019Give one solution a business could use for a short-term cash-flow shortfall, other than chasing customer payments.
- 25th May 2019State the formula for a month's closing balance.
- 26th May 2019If a business successfully cuts its variable cost per unit while keeping its selling price the same, what happens to its break-even output?
- 27th May 2019Identify one direct cost of training.
- 28th May 2019Explain why, according to Herzberg, simply raising pay may not increase motivation.
- 29th May 2019Define business ethics.
- 30th May 2019Give one reason e-commerce might exclude some customers.
- 31st May 2019Give one way technology allows a business to target its promotion more precisely than traditional mass-media advertising.