CIMA MCS past questions by topic

Illustrative example

• Technical understandingStrong: market and cost-based options compared
• Use of the informationGood: applied to the two departments
• Application to the scenarioNeeds work: managers' behaviour missing
• CommunicationFair: one clear recommendation

Fix first: Explain how each department's manager would react to your price, because that is what decides whether trade happens.

Sample: an invented mark to show the shape of our feedback, not a real student's. Our marks follow CIMA's published 2026–27 marking approach. They are a practice estimate to help you improve, not an official CIMA mark or a prediction of your result.

Illustrative example

• Technical understandingGood: options to delay, expand and abandon
• Use of the informationNeeds work: not linked to the new product
• Application to the scenarioFair: board's view considered
• CommunicationFair: recommendation given

Fix first: Tie each real option to a decision the board actually faces on this product, with the point at which it would act.

Sample: an invented mark to show the shape of our feedback, not a real student's. Our marks follow CIMA's published 2026–27 marking approach. They are a practice estimate to help you improve, not an official CIMA mark or a prediction of your result.

Illustrative example

• Technical understandingGood: each capital covered
• Use of the informationGood: uses the academy's facts
• Application to the scenarioGood: readers' needs considered
• CommunicationNeeds work: no view on what to leave out

Fix first: Recommend which disclosure matters most to investors and say why, rather than listing all three equally.

Sample: an invented mark to show the shape of our feedback, not a real student's. Our marks follow CIMA's published 2026–27 marking approach. They are a practice estimate to help you improve, not an official CIMA mark or a prediction of your result.