What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0264 Business papers and filtered to production of goods and services. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on production of goods and services, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Using production and productivity as if they were the same word.
- Using maximum possible output instead of actual output when the data table shows both.
- Writing the labour productivity answer as a sum of money instead of units per employee.
- Saying just-in-time reduces costs without saying which cost, or forgetting it leaves nothing to cover a late delivery.
- Describing Kaizen as one big improvement, or confusing it with quality control.
- Saying batch production makes one product at a time. That is job production.
- Claiming flow production is always cheapest. It is only cheapest at high volume, because the set-up cost has to be spread.
- Listing advantages of a production method with no reference to the business in the stem, which loses every application mark.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Production of goods and services revision notes.