What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0264 Business papers and filtered to business and ethical issues. 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.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on business and ethical issues, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Answering that the business should be ethical because it is the right thing to do. Examiners award marks for business consequences, not for moral statements.
- Confusing ethical with legal. Following the law is the minimum, and ethics is what a business does beyond it.
- Giving only the advantages of being ethical when the question asked for both sides.
- Saying being ethical always increases sales. It only does so if customers know about it and are willing to pay.
- Ignoring the cost entirely, so the answer has no trade-off in it and cannot reach the top of the evaluation band.
- Writing about pollution and legal controls, which belong to 6.3, when the question is about how the business treats employees and suppliers.
- Assuming all customers care. Price sensitive customers often do not, and saying so is a real evaluation point.
- Ending with "there are advantages and disadvantages" instead of a decision with a reason.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Business and ethical issues revision notes.