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Business and Enterprise Skills Revision & Mock Test

Study the core Business and Enterprise Skills topics, practise original questions, receive an instant mark, read corrections and see which topics need more work.

10 topic guides · 10-question mock · instant corrections

Practice notice: Original New Horizon practice questions – not an official ZIMSEC examination paper.

Business and Enterprise Skills topic guides

1. Entrepreneurship

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Identify opportunities, solve customer problems and assess entrepreneurial qualities.

Exam focus: Start from evidence of customer need.

2. Business Ideas and Research

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Use observation, questionnaires, interviews and competitor analysis.

Exam focus: Avoid biased questions and tiny samples.

3. Business Planning

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Define objectives, operations, resources, risks and financial projections.

Exam focus: Assumptions should be realistic and stated.

4. Forms of Business Ownership

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Compare sole traders, partnerships, companies and cooperatives.

Exam focus: Consider control, liability and finance.

5. Marketing

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Apply segmentation, target markets, product, price, place, promotion and customer care.

Exam focus: Marketing is wider than advertising.

6. Operations and Quality

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Plan production, stock, suppliers, location, capacity and quality control.

Exam focus: Prevent defects as well as inspect outputs.

7. Finance and Records

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Use cash books, budgets, cash flow, income statements and basic balance sheets.

Exam focus: Profit is not the same as cash.

8. Human Resources

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Plan recruitment, training, motivation, health, safety and teamwork.

Exam focus: Use fair, lawful selection criteria.

9. Business Law and Ethics

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Understand contracts, consumer protection, tax responsibilities and ethical conduct.

Exam focus: Legal compliance and trust support sustainability.

10. Growth and Risk Management

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Assess funding, insurance, diversification, digital tools and expansion.

Exam focus: Grow only when cash flow and systems can support it.

Business and Enterprise Skills mock test

Choose one answer for each question, then submit. Unanswered questions are marked incorrect.

1. An entrepreneur primarily:

organises resources to pursue an opportunity avoids all decisions works only for government never accepts risk

2. Market research helps a business understand:

customers and competitors weather only nothing measurable private passwords

3. A sole trader is owned by:

one person shareholders only government only two countries

4. Limited liability means owners may lose:

normally their invested amount unlimited personal assets in every case no money ever customer records only

5. The four Ps include product, price, place and:

promotion payroll profit only partnership

6. Gross profit equals sales minus:

cost of sales all assets capital cash at bank

7. A cash-flow forecast shows expected:

cash inflows and outflows employee ages logo colours machine weight

8. Quality control aims to:

ensure output meets standards increase defects remove customers avoid measurement

9. Training employees can improve:

skills and productivity tax evasion stock theft machine rust

10. Insurance helps a business:

manage specified financial risks guarantee profit avoid all laws remove competition

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