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20 CIE IGCSE Business Studies questions on Business activity, each with instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme.

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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

Which of the following best defines 'scarcity' in the context of business activity?

  1. The limited availability of resources relative to unlimited human wants
  2. A shortage of money caused by high levels of taxation
  3. The reduction in supply of a good during an economic recession
  4. The inability of a business to sell all of its products
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✓ Answer: AThe limited availability of resources relative to unlimited human wants
Scarcity refers to the fundamental economic problem that resources are finite while human wants are unlimited, forcing choices about resource allocation. Option A describes a sales problem, not scarcity. Option C confuses scarcity with a specific financial constraint. Option D describes a supply-side economic event, not the general concept of scarcity.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

Which type of economy relies entirely on market forces of supply and demand, with no government intervention in resource allocation?

  1. Planned economy
  2. Mixed economy
  3. Subsistence economy
  4. Free market economy
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✓ Answer: DFree market economy
A free market economy allocates resources entirely through the price mechanism (supply and demand) with no government intervention. A mixed economy combines market forces with government involvement. A planned economy is directed entirely by the government. A subsistence economy involves producing only enough to survive and is not based purely on market forces.
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CIE IGCSE Business Studies: Business activity FAQ

How many CIE IGCSE Business Studies questions on Business activity are there on Kramizo?
Kramizo currently has 20 exam-board-aligned practice questions on Business activity for CIE IGCSE Business Studies, with new questions added every week. Each question gives you instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme that tells you exactly what would earn marks on a real CIE paper. The questions span the full difficulty range — from straightforward recall (level 1) right up to multi-step reasoning and evaluation (level 3) — so the bank works for first-pass revision and final exam-week stress testing alike.
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Yes — completely free. Every student gets 45 questions a day on the free plan, with no card required and no trial countdown. That free quota works across every subject and every topic in our bank, so you can mix Business activity practice with other Business Studies topics or even switch to a totally different CIE subject without paying anything. Kramizo's optional Pro plan removes the daily cap and adds detailed progress analytics, but the free tier is the real product — used by thousands of GCSE, IGCSE and CSEC students.
Are the Business activity questions aligned to the official CIE IGCSE Business Studies syllabus?
Every question is written against the published CIE IGCSE Business Studies specification, including the exact command words (state, describe, explain, calculate, evaluate, etc.), mark allocations, and difficulty tier you'd see on a real CIE paper. Explanations are written in the style of official examiner mark schemes — they tell you what is being awarded marks and why distractors are wrong, not just whether you got it right. The bank is continually refined to match the latest syllabus updates from CIE.
How is Business activity typically tested on CIE IGCSE Business Studies papers?
Business activity appears across multiple question types on real CIE IGCSE Business Studies papers — most commonly as multiple-choice questions in the objective section, structured short-answer questions in the main paper, and occasionally as part of an extended response. Kramizo's practice bank reflects that mix: 4-option MCQs, true/false statements, fill-in-the-blank key terms, multi-select questions, and ordering questions. Working through the bank gives you exposure to every question style examiners actually use.

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