CIMA SCS · Nov 2025 & Feb 2026
Cewmlator past exam tasks: CIMA SCS Nov 2025 & Feb 2026
Cewmlator (electric vehicles) was the Strategic Case Study pre-seen for Nov 2025 & Feb 2026. Here is every sub-task CIMA set on it, across 6 exam variants, summarised in our own words.
CIMA's post-exam materials for Nov 2025 & Feb 2026 (the real variants, suggested answers, marking guidance and examiner's report)
- Exam variants
- 6
- Sub-tasks
- 36
- Topics tested
- 14
- Industry
- Electric vehicles
Core activity mix
Sub-tasks across all variants, under the core activity CIMA's marking guidance gives each one.
- ADevelop business strategyBlueprint weighting 15–25%7
- BEvaluate business ecosystem and business environmentBlueprint weighting 15–25%9
- CRecommend financing strategiesBlueprint weighting 15–25%7
- DEvaluate and mitigate riskBlueprint weighting 15–25%7
- ERecommend and maintain a sound control environmentBlueprint weighting 15–25%6
Topics tested
- Boards, governance and pay4
- Share price and market reaction4
- Strategic choice, mission and SAF4
- Acquisitions and divestments3
- Ecosystem and environment analysis3
- ESG and non-financial capitals3
- Ethics3
- Internal controls3
- Internal audit2
- Political risk2
- Raising finance2
- Currency risk1
- Risk management and the risk register1
- Scenario planning1
The tasks, variant by variant
Each candidate sat one variant. Every variant covers every core activity, but on different topics and new information.
- V1 · Task 1(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
Political, economic and legal implications of requiring dealers to offer battery repairs.
- V1 · Task 1(b)Core activity D: Risk
Ethics of asking dealer technicians to dismantle high-voltage batteries.
- V1 · Task 2(a)Core activity C: Financing
What an unusual share price movement suggests about committing to, and publicising, a repair service.
- V1 · Task 2(b)Core activity D: Risk
Risk register treatment for sharing confidential strategy with dealerships.
- V1 · Task 3(a)Core activity A: Strategy
Pros and cons of buying a company by share exchange rather than for cash.
- V1 · Task 3(b)Core activity E: Control environment
Internal audit tests to check that dealers carry out battery repairs safely and well.
- V2 · Task 1(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
What a competitor analysis should cover on how rivals are affected by the company's charging points.
- V2 · Task 1(b)Core activity A: Strategy
Effect of building charging points on the company's non-financial capitals.
- V2 · Task 2(a)Core activity A: Strategy
Whether the company's vision justifies a proposal to install charging points.
- V2 · Task 2(b)Core activity C: Financing
How to raise debt for buying and installing charging points.
- V2 · Task 3(a)Core activity D: Risk
Extra internal controls to stop charging point customers being defrauded.
- V2 · Task 3(b)Core activity E: Control environment
The audit committee's role in reviewing payment systems and ongoing events.
- V3 · Task 1(a)Core activity D: Risk
Controls to prevent tampering with vehicle control software.
- V3 · Task 1(b)Core activity A: Strategy
Effect of software tampering on the company's non-financial capitals.
- V3 · Task 2(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
Evaluating a new battery proposal for suitability, acceptability and feasibility.
- V3 · Task 2(b)Core activity C: Financing
Issues in evaluating a loan offered by a commercial bank.
- V3 · Task 3(a)Core activity C: Financing
Whether withdrawing a car model will push the share price up or down.
- V3 · Task 3(b)Core activity E: Control environment
For and against protecting directors' bonuses from the effect of a model withdrawal.
- V4 · Task 1(a)Core activity A: Strategy
ESG implications of helping to develop an outside inventor's new process.
- V4 · Task 1(b)Core activity C: Financing
Difficulties predicting how backing the process will affect the share price.
- V4 · Task 2(a)Core activity D: Risk
Ethics of buying sole rights to a process and shutting rivals out.
- V4 · Task 2(b)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
Political risks of adopting the process given links to another country, with responses.
- V4 · Task 3(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
Whether a partner's proposal meets suitability, acceptability and feasibility.
- V4 · Task 3(b)Core activity E: Control environment
For and against appointing an executive director responsible for ESG.
- V5 · Task 1(a)Core activity A: Strategy
Using scenario planning to manage several possible future events.
- V5 · Task 1(b)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
Effect of a strengthening foreign currency on the company's ability to trade.
- V5 · Task 2(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
Whether the board should have foreseen a new sales tax from political and economic analysis.
- V5 · Task 2(b)Core activity C: Financing
Implications of a fall in the share price and how the board should respond.
- V5 · Task 3(a)Core activity D: Risk
Internal controls to prevent bribery.
- V5 · Task 3(b)Core activity E: Control environment
Evaluating the head of internal audit's views on preventing bribery.
- V6 · Task 1(a)Core activity A: Strategy
Key resources needed to make an acquisition succeed.
- V6 · Task 1(b)Core activity C: Financing
Challenges in negotiating a share exchange to buy all of a target's equity.
- V6 · Task 2(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
Political risks of where to build a new factory, with a response.
- V6 · Task 2(b)Core activity D: Risk
Ethics of delaying R&D to gain leverage with governments over the factory site.
- V6 · Task 3(a)Core activity E: Control environment
Whether the remuneration committee should reflect a recent share price rise in bonuses.
- V6 · Task 3(b)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment
Whether further R&D spending is justified given past experience with a new battery type.
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