Daily Practice · GCSE Business
January 2025 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2025Define business ethics.
- 2nd January 2025Give one reason e-commerce might exclude some customers.
- 3rd January 2025Give one way technology allows a business to target its promotion more precisely than traditional mass-media advertising.
- 4th January 2025Why must promotion be consistent with the rest of the marketing mix?
- 5th January 2025A bakery makes 200 white loaves, then 150 wholemeal, then 100 seeded. Name the process and explain how you can tell.
- 6th January 2025List four stages of a typical sales process.
- 7th January 2025State one type of external change that can affect how a business operates.
- 8th January 2025Explain why most private sector businesses aim to make a profit.
- 9th January 2025Give one reason a well-established plc might prioritise profit maximisation over survival.
- 10th January 2025Identify the term for a business having too little start-up finance to survive its early months.
- 11th January 2025A business has revenue of 25,000 pounds, cost of sales of 15,000 pounds and expenses of 6,000 pounds. Calculate its gross profit margin and net profit margin.
- 12th January 2025What does the net profit margin measure?
- 13th January 2025State one disadvantage of centralisation.
- 14th January 2025Explain one reason high labour turnover can reduce productivity.
- 15th January 2025State the three main standards goods must meet under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
- 16th January 2025Define globalisation.
- 17th January 2025State the effect of an appreciating pound on the cost of imports to a UK business.
- 18th January 2025A business cuts its price significantly. Give one other element of the mix it may also need to change, and why.
- 19th January 2025Name the three elements of the design mix.
- 20th January 2025Explain one benefit and one risk of just in time stock control.
- 21st January 2025Define single sourcing and give one advantage.
- 22nd January 2025State one risk specific to growth through a merger or takeover, other than cost.
- 23rd January 2025Define adding value in a business context.
- 24th January 2025Identify which location factor matters most to a business that relies heavily on passing trade.
- 25th January 2025State one reason an established business, not a start-up, might need finance.
- 26th January 2025A product sells for 40 pounds and has a variable cost of 15 pounds per unit. Fixed costs are 5,000 pounds. Calculate the break-even output.
- 27th January 2025Why might a lender be unwilling to give a large, unsecured loan to a brand-new business with no trading history?
- 28th January 2025Identify the type of contract that has no guaranteed minimum hours.
- 29th January 2025Identify one purpose of induction training.
- 30th January 2025Give one risk of competing mainly on price rather than differentiating.
- 31st January 2025State one way a business could respond to a new competitor entering the market.