HSC Year 12 Business Studies2026 Simulation Exam - Pack 1
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Covered in this pack
- Finance: debt and equity financing – advantages and disadvantages of each; matching the terms and source of finance to business purpose 20 marks · 1 question
- Finance: equity – ordinary shares (new issues, rights issues, placements, share purchase plans), private equity 1 mark · 1 question
- Finance: financial ratios – liquidity, gearing, profitability and efficiency 11 marks · 2 questions
- Finance: global market influences – economic outlook, availability of funds, interest rates 1 mark · 1 question
- Finance: internal sources of finance – retained profits 1 mark · 1 question
- Finance: planning and implementing – financial needs, budgets, record systems, financial risks, financial controls 1 mark · 1 question
- Human Resources: economic; technological; social – changing work patterns, living standards; ethics and corporate social responsibility 9 marks · 1 question
- Human Resources: global – costs, skills, supply 1 mark · 1 question
- Human Resources: job design – general or specific tasks 1 mark · 1 question
- Human Resources: performance management – developmental or administrative 1 mark · 1 question
- Human Resources: processes of human resource management – acquisition, development, maintenance, separation 20 marks · 1 question
- Human Resources: stakeholders – employers, employees, employer associations, unions, government organisations, society 1 mark · 1 question
- Human Resources: work health and safety and workers compensation 1 mark · 1 question
- Marketing: market segmentation, product/service differentiation and positioning 10 marks · 1 question
- Marketing: place/distribution – distribution channels; channel choice – intensive, selective, exclusive; transport, warehousing, inventory 1 mark · 1 question
- Marketing: price including pricing methods – cost, market, competition-based; pricing strategies – skimming, penetration, loss leaders, price points; price and quality interaction 1 mark · 1 question
- Marketing: products – goods and/or services; branding; packaging 1 mark · 1 question
- Marketing: promotion – advertising, personal selling and relationship marketing, sales promotions, publicity and public relations; opinion leaders, word of mouth 1 mark · 1 question
- Marketing: types of markets – resource, industrial, intermediate, consumer, mass, niche 1 mark · 1 question
- Operations: goods and/or services in different industries 1 mark · 1 question
- Operations: interdependence with other key business functions 20 marks · 1 question
- Operations: inventory management – advantages and disadvantages of holding stock, LIFO (last-in-first-out), FIFO (first-in-first-out), JIT (just-in-time) 1 mark · 1 question
- Operations: overcoming resistance to change – financial costs, purchasing new equipment, redundancy payments, retraining, reorganising plant layout, inertia 1 mark · 1 question
- Operations: performance objectives – quality, speed, dependability, flexibility, customisation, cost 1 mark · 1 question
- Operations: sequencing and scheduling – Gantt charts, critical path analysis 12 marks · 2 questions
What is included
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Examination 1 worked solutions and marking guide
Diagnostic checklist for review after marking
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NSW Year 12 students studying HSC Business Studies course 15040 who are ready to integrate the four HSC course topics in complete timed examinations, plus parents, teachers and tutors using the Purchaser licence.
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- HSC Business Studies
- 2026 edition · Pack 1 · v2.0
- 1 question paper
- Released PDF files delivered by email after purchase
- Purchaser licence
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