ISC 2024 Commerce Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Commerce paper, code 1224-857, from the 2024 board examination. It carries 80 marks and runs for three hours, with fifteen minutes extra for reading only. All 13 questions are compulsory. Section A is sixteen one-mark items, mixing multiple choice, true or false, an assertion–reason item and short fills on training, debentures, credit cards and the business environment. Section B has eight four-mark questions, with an internal choice in two of them, on decentralisation, trade credit, capital structure, Fayol's principles, planning and controlling, recruitment and marketing. Section C has four long-answer questions worth 32 marks, with an internal choice in one, and ends with a case on Pooja's company that makes steel and aluminium rods. This copy has the questions only.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Commerce

Year

2024

Paper code

1224-857

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

13

Pages

6

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  16 marks

  Question 1 with 16 one-mark parts: multiple choice, four true-or-false statements, one assertion–reason item and very short answers

• Section B

  32 marks

  Questions 2–9, four marks each; internal choice in Questions 2 and 8

• Section C

  32 marks

  Questions 10–13, long answers, including a case on a steel and aluminium rods business; internal choice in Question 11

Topics covered

• Business environment
• Principles of management
• Planning and controlling
• Organising and decentralisation
• Staffing, recruitment and training
• Directing and Maslow's theory
• Marketing mix and branding
• Consumer protection
• Sources of finance and capital structure
• Banking, credit cards and UPI

Questions from this paper

1. Best Pest Control Services decides to train its seventy-five technicians again so that they keep pace with changing technology. What type of training should the management impart?
2. JSW Co. bought goods on credit from SW Co. and paid the amount after two months. Name this short-term source of finance and state any three of its features.
3. Identify and briefly explain the principles of Henri Fayol illustrated by "A place for everything and everything in its place" and by "Absence of nepotism and favouritism".
4. Ms Jadeep believes planning is the way to reach the company's goals, while Mr Philips believes controlling is. Briefly explain the relationship between these two functions of management.
5. Mr Deepak bought a washing machine for ₹25,000 from an e-commerce platform and kept the cash memo. A manufacturing defect damaged his clothes in the first wash. Which provision of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 lets him claim compensation?
6. Explain Maslow's theory of motivation, and explain "method" as a type of plan.