B.Com (Hons), Semester I, DSC-1.1

Management Principles and Applications

144 answers across 4 recent sittings and 7 older papers.

Start with December 2025
answers
144
papers
11
topics ranked
18
Crux

The whole Management Principles and Applications syllabus in short notes, in order, with every topic linked to its past DU questions.

Read the notes

Every topic, every paper

11 papers from 2016 to 2025, older syllabus included. Open a topic for its marks paper by paper.

Topic161718192021222325Papers
  1. Organisational design and structures11/111 as OR
  2. Delegation and decentralisation10/112 as OR
  3. Management theories: classical to contingency10/113 as OR
  4. Controlling: process and measures10/114 as OR
  5. Leadership and followership9/11
  6. Coordination9/113 as OR
  7. Strategy: planning, Porter, SWOT9/113 as OR
  8. Contemporary issues in management9/115 as OR
  9. Decision-making8/11
  10. Formal and informal organisation8/117 as OR
  11. Management: nature, functions, importance7/111 as OR
  12. Motivation and its theories7/112 as OR
  13. Case studies on Indian corporates6/11
  14. Business environment5/114 as OR
  15. Objectives and management by objectives4/111 as OR
  16. Planning3/111 as OR
  17. Entrepreneurship and MSMEs2/111 as OR
  18. Indian ethos in management2/112 as OR
  19. Managerial roles and competencies2/112 as OR
  20. Business ethics and social responsibility1/111 as OR

AskedOnly as an OR choiceNot askedCurrent-syllabus paper

Study order

Learn the topics in this order. Each one shows the marks it adds to a 90-mark paper on top of the topics above it, from the 4 current-syllabus papers (February 2023 to December 2025). An OR choice counts once.

Learn firsteach adds 9 marks or more

  1. 1
    Contemporary issues in managementQ54 past questions, 3 h 36 m
    adds +1818
  2. 2
    Controlling: process and measuresQ47 past questions, 3 h 9 m
    adds +13.531.5
  3. 3
    Organisational design and structuresQ38 past questions, 3 h 36 m
    adds +13.545
  4. 4
    CoordinationQ14 past questions, 1 h 48 m
    adds +954
  5. 5
    Decision-makingQ24 past questions, 1 h 48 m
    adds +963

Subtotal, 5 topics63 of 90 marks

Then these3 to 9 marks each

  1. 6
    Objectives and management by objectivesQ24 past questions, 1 h 48 m
    adds +6.869.8
  2. 7
    Management: nature, functions, importanceQ13 past questions, 1 h 21 m
    adds +6.876.5
  3. 8
    Delegation and decentralisationQ34 past questions, 1 h 48 m
    adds +4.581
  4. 9
    Leadership and followershipQ45 past questions, 2 h 15 m
    adds +4.585.5

Subtotal, 9 topics85.5 of 90 marks

If time allowsunder 3 marks each

  1. 10
    Strategy: planning, Porter, SWOTQ24 past questions, 1 h 48 m
    adds +2.287.8
  2. 11
    Management theories: classical to contingencyQ15 past questions, 2 h 15 m
    adds +2.290

Total, 11 topics90 of 90 marks

Pick one of each pair

The first topic only comes up as the OR choice against the second, so one of the two is enough.

Doing every question in the order once, at exam pace, takes about 25 h 12 m. Averages over past papers, not promises.

Turn it into a day-by-day plan

Not on the ladder asked only under the older CBCS syllabus, so they add nothing to a current paper

Question by question

The topics each question has asked in the 4 current-syllabus papers (February 2023 to December 2025). The faded squares are the 7 old-syllabus papers (2016–22): their questions were numbered differently, so they show only whether a topic came up.

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5

AskedOnly as the OR choiceNot askedCame up in an old-syllabus paper