Paper 2 Exam Practice Questions
This section of the InThinking Business Management website is for teachers only as it contains exam practice questions that you can use for Paper 2 assessment purposes, such as end of unit tests and/or end of year examinations.
You have the option to download each set of exam practice questions in PDF format to use with your students. Each set of exam practice questions comes with a complete mark scheme.
Click the link below to access the relevant exam practice question and mark scheme.
Exam Practice Question 1 - IKEA (Ansoff matrix and growth strategies)
Exam Practice Question 2 - Pfizer (The ethics of marketing practices)
Exam Practice Question 3 - Thames Valley Winery (Stock control - HL Only)
Exam Practice Question 4 - Priyanka Chopra (Entrepreneurship and leadership)
Exam Practice Question 5 - Glori Fried Chicken (Balance sheets)
Exam Practice Question 6 - Samsung (Sustainability)
Exam Practice Question 7 - London Zoo (Cash flow management)
Exam Practice Question 8 - Tesla (Productivity, Growth, Economies of scale)
Exam Practice Question 9 - Mount Beacon School (HRM, Leadership)
Top tip!
It is quite common knowledge that students are able to access past IB exam papers and mark schemes from various sources on the Internet. Many teachers tend to use the latest exams and mark schemes for their mock exams, but students also know this so may try to access these papers and mark schemes in preparation for their mocks. It has been known that some students even rote learn the mark schemes. Here are a couple of suggestions to get around this issue:
Use SL exam questions for the HL mock exam (and vice versa for the SL exam where core content appears in HL exam papers).
Do not include the questions from an entire exam paper, such as the whole of Paper 2 from November 2021 for mock exams in preparation for the May 2022 exams. Instead, use different questions from different exam sessions (i.e. the questions should not all be from same year / exam session).
Top tip!
If students ask for a suggested length of writing time for each of the three sections in Paper 2, approx. 1.5 minutes per mark tends to work well. So, for Section C (the CUEGIS essay), that works out to be around 30 minutes. This should allow students to have sufficient time to read the stimulus materials, comprehend the demands of each of the questions, and maybe even some time at the end to check some of their answers.
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