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CIMA SCS past questions: Strategic choice, mission and SAF

Every sub-task on strategic choice, mission and SAF set in the Strategic Case Study pre-seens we cover, summarised in our own words.

Sub-tasks
10
Sittings
3 of 3
Exam variants
9 of 18
Last set
Nov 2025 & Feb 2026

Mostly filed under core activity B (Evaluate business ecosystem and business environment). Syllabus: E3 D, making strategic choices. These are patterns from past exams, not a forecast: CIMA can test any part of the syllabus.

Nov 2025 & Feb 2026 · Cewmlator

Every task set for Cewmlator

Electric vehicles · CIMA's post-exam materials

  • V2 · Task 2(a)Core activity A: Strategy

    Whether the company's vision justifies a proposal to install charging points.

  • V3 · Task 2(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    Evaluating a new battery proposal for suitability, acceptability and feasibility.

  • V4 · Task 3(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    Whether a partner's proposal meets suitability, acceptability and feasibility.

  • 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.

May & Aug 2025 · Leothayre

Every task set for Leothayre

Satellites · CIMA's post-exam materials

  • V4 · Task 1(a)Core activity A: Strategy

    Whether accepting a proposal means following an emergent strategy, and whether that suits the company.

  • V4 · Task 2(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    Evaluating a counter-proposal for suitability, acceptability and feasibility.

  • V5 · Task 2(a)Core activity C: Financing

    Suitability, acceptability and feasibility of an acquisition whose key product has no full prototype.

Nov 2024 & Feb 2025 · Rotomyne

Every task set for Rotomyne

Lithium mining · CIMA's post-exam materials

  • V3 · Task 2(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    How relevant suitability, acceptability and feasibility are to deciding on new climate disclosures.

  • V4 · Task 1(b)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    Evaluating a proposal for suitability, acceptability and feasibility.

  • V5 · Task 1(a)Core activity A: Strategy

    Whether building a factory abroad fits the mission, vision and values.

How we'd mark one

The past task

Testing a proposal against SAF

SCS · Nov 2024 & Feb 2025 · Rotomyne · V4 · Task 1(b) · Core activity B (Ecosystem and environment)

Evaluating a proposal for suitability, acceptability and feasibility.

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Nearshore or automation: which option fits our strategy? · Strategic choice · set in Vennlisk

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Illustrative example

86 / 150

PASS LINE 80 · ABOVE

  • Technical understandingStrong: all three criteria applied
  • Use of the informationGood: linked to the company's position
  • Application to the scenarioNeeds work: key groups ignored
  • CommunicationGood: firm recommendation

Fix first: Acceptability is about stakeholders: say how each key group would respond, and why.

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.

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