Business Management Exam Discussion

[Trilla]

Bruvvvv, that was actually a nice exam to be honest

The question with the management role under a decentralised approach to employee relations was abit odd
What did people write for the management structure and management style??

Also, the 10 marker was fairly nice this year.
-The quality inferiority was TQM or any quality strategy tbh
-Level of wastage: Most of the materials management strategies (MRP, JIT, IC)
-addressing of future needs for hr (HR planning)

For this question, did people also mention negatives for each? along with performance indicators??

Mod Edit: Merged threads. Please have all BM exam discussions in this thread

[deborahchew]

Yeah! Nice set of questions.

I think that's where I lost 1 or 2 marks - the HR role under a decentralised approach. I put negotiating, implementing, training and resolving but explanations were terrible.

No, I didn't put disadvantages for the 10 marker. No KPI either. Now that you mention it, maybe I should have. Hahah. Although I don't think we'll lose many marks, if any, as it was not expressly stated as a requirement of the question.

[Trilla]

Yeah! Nice set of questions.

I think that's where I lost 1 or 2 marks - the HR role under a decentralised approach. I put negotiating, implementing, training and resolving but explanations were terrible.

No, I didn't put disadvantages for the 10 marker. No KPI either. Now that you mention it, maybe I should have. Hahah. Although I don't think we'll lose many marks, if any, as it was not expressly stated as a requirement of the question.

I think it said discuss, so if you mentioned the limitations or something along those lines, you'd be good right?
I messed up the employee relations question, i only mentioned negotiating and resolving. Now that i think of it, not much people would've extensively gone through the roles in employee relations and even if they did, they'd probs answer it in the same way i did, leaving out implementing and training

[Shyam995]

Bruvvvv, that was actually a nice exam to be honest

The question with the management role under a decentralised approach to employee relations was abit odd
What did people write for the management structure and management style??

Also, the 10 marker was fairly nice this year.
-The quality inferiority was TQM or any quality strategy tbh
-Level of wastage: Most of the materials management strategies (MRP, JIT, IC)
-addressing of future needs for hr (HR planning)

For this question, did people also mention negatives for each? along with performance indicators??

Yeah it was a nice exam, fairly good,

that 10 marker i stuffed up on, forgot to mention about wastage, but mentioned JIT and CI, but i did mention the positives and negatives as it stated to DISCUSS.

Hmm, this is interesting.... hope my chances of 40 havent severely diminished..

[Zues]

I didnt really go advantages and disadvantages but rather "discussed" it and kinda went along the lines of explain. I dont think they'll be picky on that sort of stuff. Easy exam however alot of random questions that didnt really cover the course well?

where they drunk when they wrote it cause some of the questions were way off, e.g. stakeholders and ethical socially responsible, some questions didnt make pure sense and some questions were like, "ooohh we havent used this part of the course so we'll just place it in this question"........

- no compares and no evaluates....very poorly written exam in my opinion!

[connie990]

How did you guys find it?

[deborahchew]

I think it said discuss, so if you mentioned the limitations or something along those lines, you'd be good right?
I messed up the employee relations question, i only mentioned negotiating and resolving. Now that i think of it, not much people would've extensively gone through the roles in employee relations and even if they did, they'd probs answer it in the same way i did, leaving out implementing and training

I think including limitations would definitely have been better, so good on you!

Yes, I think this paper's assessors report will have a fairly high percentage of students getting 0 marks on that question.

I didnt really go advantages and disadvantages but rather "discussed" it and kinda went along the lines of explain. I dont think they'll be picky on that sort of stuff. Easy exam however alot of random questions that didnt really cover the course well?

where they drunk when they wrote it cause some of the questions were way off, e.g. stakeholders and ethical socially responsible, some questions didnt make pure sense and some questions were like, "ooohh we havent used this part of the course so we'll just place it in this question"........

- no compares and no evaluates....very poorly written exam in my opinion!

Actually, true! Compare and evaluate have been on most other exams. From what I've seen so far, majority of students have found the 2014 paper easy and straightforward. It'd be interesting to see how the state goes on this paper.

[Addzkebabs]

Hey there,

Honestly I was pretty stretched for time... wrote my last word and the examiner said pens down lmao

After a quick review I think the maximum amount of marks I can lose is 5.. so feeling confident with a 60/65

What do you reckon the more difficult questions were?

[biggs026]

Yeah it was a nice exam, fairly good,

that 10 marker i stuffed up on, forgot to mention about wastage, but mentioned JIT and CI, but i did mention the positives and negatives as it stated to DISCUSS.

Hmm, this is interesting.... hope my chances of 40 havent severely diminished..

I thought discuss just meant go into detail, are you expected to specifically go in depth and pros and cons? Wouldn't that be 'evaluate' or 'compare and contrast'?
The only question I really thought you were expected to talk about positives and negatives was the low risk and high risk strategy question, because you needed to actually pick one over the other.

[biggs026]

It was a pretty straightforward exam but I agree, very oddly written. A lot of the 5-6 mark questions there just wasn't enough from the case studies to go into a level of detail for that many marks.. I mean the management structure one was a bit too simple for 5 marks. And what did it even mean by how the structure would 'support the organization'? (or something like that).

[Trilla]

Yeah it was a nice exam, fairly good,

that 10 marker i stuffed up on, forgot to mention about wastage, but mentioned JIT and CI, but i did mention the positives and negatives as it stated to DISCUSS.

Hmm, this is interesting.... hope my chances of 40 havent severely diminished..

If your sacs are A+ and you're ranked in the top 10 at your school, anything above 50 should give you a 40

[connie990]

Didn't get to finish properly. I was very pressed for time and I know I didn't answer some questions as good as I would have liked. 10 extra minutes would have been great 

Overall, the exam wasn't too difficult.

I didn't like that question on 'planning' and needing to compare it to something else.

Also that management structure question I used divisional. What did you use and what reasons did you give?

[Shyam995]

I thought discuss just meant go into detail, are you expected to specifically go in depth and pros and cons? Wouldn't that be 'evaluate' or 'compare and contrast'?
The only question I really thought you were expected to talk about positives and negatives was the low risk and high risk strategy question, because you needed to actually pick one over the other.

discuss means:

(extract from KEY CONCEPTS IN VCE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT U3&4)

Page 284 - Appendix

Discuss: Identify issues and provide points for/against

positives and negatives were referring to this

[Shyam995]

If your sacs are A+ and you're ranked in the top 10 at your school, anything above 50 should give you a 40

what did you mean by above 50? like 50 out of 65?

i was confident i got like around 55 but my sacs are consistent at B+.

How would that pan out in study score wise? Im aiming for 40 (because of the ridiculous scaling down) and because it would not count to my bottom as my other subjects scale up

[Zues]

discuss means:

(extract from KEY CONCEPTS IN VCE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT U3&4)

Page 284 - Appendix

Discuss: Identify issues and provide points for/against

positives and negatives were referring to this

yes its advantages/disadvantages but its a framework, its not like evaluate, pros/cons/opinion but rather a discussion with some (if you like) advantages/disadvantages

i have been rank 1 with 97/100 sacs but that exam i dont think i brought my best foot forward, too easy that i didnt do well?? some questions i dont know if i wrote enough, some questions i might've written more then required sort of thing. They will obviously mark it harsher this year and my crap handwriting-trying to finish exam fast probs didnt help