What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Edexcel A-Level papers and filtered to business growth. 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 business growth, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Confusing horizontal with vertical integration, or forward with backward. Ask: same stage, or a different stage of the same chain?
- Explaining only why firms grow, when the specification asks equally why they stay small.
- Treating a merger as automatically beneficial, most fail to deliver the projected synergies.
- Confusing the principal–agent problem with simple disagreement; it rests specifically on asymmetric information.
- Saying a demerger is an admission of failure. It is often a rational response to diseconomies of scale.
- Ignoring the effect on consumers and competition, which is where the evaluation marks are.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Business Growth revision notes.