Mini practice paper: 8 questions
Mixed-difficulty questions from across the Business Studies syllabus. Tap "Show answer" after each to check yourself.
Q1 · Difficulty 1/3
The process of finding and hiring new staff is:
- recruitment
- redundancy
- appraisal
- retirement
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✓ Answer: A — recruitment
Recruitment hires new staff.
Q2 · Difficulty 1/3
Which of the following best describes the purpose of a cash flow forecast?
- To show the assets and liabilities of a business at one point in time
- To record all transactions that have already occurred
- To calculate the annual profit made by a business
- To estimate future cash inflows and outflows over a period
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✓ Answer: D — To estimate future cash inflows and outflows over a period
A cash flow forecast estimates expected future cash inflows and outflows, helping businesses plan for periods of cash shortage. Option A describes bookkeeping or accounting records of past transactions. Option C describes an income statement (profit and loss account). Option D describes a balance sheet.
Q3 · Difficulty 1/3
The four elements of the marketing mix are product, price, place and:
- promotion
- profit
- people
- process
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✓ Answer: A — promotion
The 4Ps are product, price, place, promotion.
Q4 · Difficulty 2/3
Well-motivated staff usually have higher:
- labour turnover
- costs
- productivity
- absence
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✓ Answer: C — productivity
Motivation raises productivity and reduces turnover.
Q5 · Difficulty 2/3
Checking products meet a standard is:
- recruitment
- quality control
- market research
- budgeting
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✓ Answer: B — quality control
Quality control checks standards.
Q6 · Difficulty 2/3
Output produced per worker measures:
- liability
- turnover
- market share
- productivity
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✓ Answer: D — productivity
Productivity is output per input.
Q7 · Difficulty 2/3
For a new small business, the most important objective is often:
- maximum tax
- closure
- survival
- global domination
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✓ Answer: C — survival
Survival is a key early objective.
Q8 · Difficulty 2/3
Producing groups of identical products together is:
- flow production
- cell production only
- batch production
- job production
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✓ Answer: C — batch production
Batch production makes groups of items.
WJEC GCSE Business Studies FAQ
What does the WJEC GCSE Business Studies exam look like?
The WJEC GCSE Business Studies exam is structured across 3 components. Paper 1: Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, ~70-100 marks. Covers Topics 1-4 of the specification. Paper 2: Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, ~70-100 marks. Covers Topics 5-8 of the specification. Paper 3: Where applicable — e.g. Combined Science, Languages. Includes synoptic and applied questions. Total exam time: ~3 hours across two or three papers.
Can I download a free WJEC GCSE Business Studies past paper?
Real WJEC past papers are published directly by WJEC on their official website. Kramizo doesn't redistribute copyrighted past papers, but we do generate free AI-written practice papers in the exact same style — same command words, same difficulty tier, same mark conventions. Use this practice paper as warm-up, then time yourself on official past papers before exam day.
How is WJEC GCSE Business Studies graded?
Grades: 9 (highest) to 1 (lowest), with U (ungraded). A grade of 4 is a standard pass; 5 is a strong pass. Kramizo's practice questions are tagged with difficulty 1-3 mapping roughly to the lower, middle, and top grade boundaries you'll encounter in the real exam.