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

Business Organisation and Management

105 answers across 3 recent sittings and 6 older papers.

Start with January 2025

answers: 105
papers: 9
topics ranked: 16

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

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Current syllabus UGCF, 2022 onwards

Older papers CBCS syllabus, 54 answers; not counted in Where the marks are

2021CBCS2021–22, set B paper
6 question parts, paper number not printed3 solved3 being checked
2020CBCS2020–21, open book paper
6 question parts, paper number not printed3 solved3 being checked
2019CBCSNovember–December 2019 paper
14 question parts, paper 840212 solved2 being checked
2018CBCSNovember–December 2018 paper
21 question parts, paper 123210 solved11 being checked
2017CBCSNovember–December 2017 paper
23 question parts, paper 785215 solved8 being checked
2016CBCSNovember–December 2016 paper
20 question parts, paper 185411 solved9 being checked

Every topic, every paper

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

Topic1617181920212325Papers

Contemporary issues in management9/91 as OR
Motivation and its theories8/9
Ownership forms and business formats8/91 as OR
Organisational design and structures8/93 as OR
Leadership and followership7/92 as OR
Decision-making7/93 as OR
Entrepreneurship and MSMEs7/93 as OR
Business ethics and social responsibility7/94 as OR
Strategy: planning, Porter, SWOT6/91 as OR
Communication6/94 as OR
Coordination4/9
Business environment4/92 as OR
Formal and informal organisation4/92 as OR
Controlling: process and measures4/93 as OR
Delegation and decentralisation3/91 as OR
Planning3/91 as OR
Management: nature, functions, importance2/9

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 3 current-syllabus papers (February 2023 to January 2025). An OR choice counts once.

Learn firsteach adds 9 marks or more

1
Contemporary issues in managementQ53 past questions, 2 h 42 m
adds +1818
2
Ownership forms and business formatsQ19 past questions, 4 h 3 m
adds +1836
3
Entrepreneurship and MSMEsQ25 past questions, 2 h 15 m
adds +1551
4
CommunicationQ43 past questions, 1 h 21 m
adds +960
5
Decision-makingQ33 past questions, 1 h 21 m
adds +969

Subtotal, 5 topics69 of 90 marks

Then these3 to 9 marks each

6
Controlling: process and measuresQ42 past questions, 54 m
adds +675
7
Formal and informal organisationQ33 past questions, 1 h 21 m
adds +378
8
Organisational design and structuresQ33 past questions, 1 h 21 m
adds +684
9
Business ethics and social responsibilityQ24 past questions, 1 h 48 m
adds +387
10
PlanningQ41 past question, 27 m
adds +390

Total, 10 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 17 h 33 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

Delegation and decentralisationasked only in 3 older papers
Outside the topics the syllabus namesasks about something the current syllabus does not name

Question by question

The topics each question has asked in the 3 current-syllabus papers (February 2023 to January 2025). The faded squares are the 6 old-syllabus papers (2016–21): their questions were numbered differently, so they show only whether a topic came up.

Question 1

Ownership forms and business formats, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 5 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Coordination, asked in 2 of the 3 papers; came up in 2 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Management: nature, functions, importance, asked in 1 of the 3 papers; came up in 1 of the 6 old-syllabus papers

Question 2

Business environment, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 1 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Business ethics and social responsibility, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 4 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Entrepreneurship and MSMEs, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 4 of the 6 old-syllabus papers

Question 3

Decision-making, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 4 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Formal and informal organisation, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 1 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Organisational design and structures, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 5 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Strategy: planning, Porter, SWOT, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 3 of the 6 old-syllabus papers

Question 4

Communication, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 3 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Leadership and followership, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 4 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Motivation and its theories, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 5 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Controlling: process and measures, asked in 2 of the 3 papers; came up in 2 of the 6 old-syllabus papers
Planning, asked in 1 of the 3 papers; came up in 2 of the 6 old-syllabus papers

Question 5

Contemporary issues in management, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 6 of the 6 old-syllabus papers

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