ICSE Class 10 Commercial Applications Question Paper 2024 with Solutions

About this paper

This is the official ICSE Class 10 Commercial Applications paper for the 2024 examination (T24 881). It carries 100 marks, allows two hours of writing after fifteen minutes of reading time, and has nine questions. Section A (40 marks) is compulsory: Question 1 has twenty one-mark multiple-choice items, including an assertion–reason item, followed by two ten-mark questions of short answers, differences and statements to justify. In Section B (60 marks) candidates attempt any four of six fifteen-mark questions. The last is a case study on MG Motor's planned affordable electric vehicle and its training programme for students. This copy has the questions only, without answers.

Exam

ICSE Class 10

Subject

Commercial Applications

Year

2024

Paper code

T24 881

Maximum marks

100

Time allowed

2 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

9

Pages

8

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  40 marks

  Compulsory: Question 1 has twenty one-mark multiple-choice items (one assertion–reason); Questions 2 and 3 carry ten marks each for short answers, differences and statements to justify

• Section B

  60 marks

  Questions 4–9, attempt any four, each with three five-mark parts; Question 9 is a case study on electric vehicles

Topics covered

• Marketing and selling
• Product life cycle
• Advertising and sales promotion
• Branding and packaging
• Book-keeping and GAAP
• Receipts and Payments, Income and Expenditure and Balance Sheet
• Fixed and variable costs and overheads
• Recruitment, selection and training
• Banking functions
• Public relations and business ethics
• Environment: greenhouse effect, pollution and industrial disasters
• Consumer education and food adulteration

Questions from this paper

1. What is Greenhouse effect?
2. Justify the following: Selection is a positive process.
3. "Packaging is a silent salesman." Give five reasons to justify.
4. Define the term GAAP. Explain the need of GAAP for accounting.
5. Distinguish between marketing and selling (any five points).
6. In which stage of the product life cycle can electric vehicles be placed? Explain this stage briefly.