Staffing Class 12 Business Studies PYQ

Class 12 Business Studies Staffing PYQ, free to download as a 78-page PDF. The chapter carries about 7 of the 80 marks in the board paper, and the set holds 83 solved questions from the 2022 to 2026 papers on sources of recruitment, the selection process, methods of training, the steps in the staffing process, importance of staffing and performance appraisal, and takes roughly six hours to work through, so split it across two sittings.

Staffing Weightage in the Class 12 Board Paper

As per Business Studies Staffing weightage from past years, students can expect about 7 marks from this chapter in the 80-mark board paper. Treat the figure as a guide, since marks per chapter change from one paper to the next, and check the CBSE curriculum for the official unit marks.

The 83 questions in this set fall in six mark bands. The 4-mark answers are the largest group with 26 questions, followed by 18 questions of 3 marks and 15 one-mark MCQs. The rest are 11 questions of 6 marks, 8 of 2 marks and 5 of 5 marks, so 68 of the 83 need a written answer.

Staffing Questions by Topic

Recruitment and training carry the set. 24 questions mention recruitment, and 22 are about training or development. 19 questions deal with the steps of the staffing process or one of them, such as estimating manpower requirements, placement and orientation, performance appraisal, promotion and career planning, and compensation.

Recruitment questions split almost evenly between the two kinds of source: 16 are about internal sources, mainly promotions and transfers, and 15 name an external source such as campus recruitment, casual callers, direct recruitment, employment exchanges or labour contractors. The training questions ask for the benefits of training to the organisation or to employees in 7 questions, and for a named method in 9. Vestibule training and internship training come up in 4 questions each, apprenticeship in 3.

The listing format matters as much as the topic. 28 of the written questions say "any two", "any three", "any four" or "any eight", and 20 begin with "identify". 14 of them are "explain the following" questions, and 8 of those are 6-mark questions that cover three steps, three sources or three training methods each.

Staffing Video Lesson

Source: Next Toppers - 12th Commerce on YouTube

How to Approach the Staffing Set

Do the 15 MCQs first, in about 15 minutes. Several are assertion-reason or statement-based, and a few describe a company in two or three lines and ask which source of recruitment or method of training it used, so read the case for the clue before you look at the options.

For the written answers, count the points the question wants and stop there: "any four" means four. 17 of the written questions are long case paragraphs, and the marks in those go to quoting the line that gives the answer away, for instance a college visit pointing to campus recruitment. In a 6-mark "explain the following" answer, give each of the three parts a heading and two to three lines.

Common Mistakes in Staffing Questions

• Mixing up training and development. Training is job-oriented, development is career-oriented, and the set asks you to identify which is which.
• Writing the steps of the staffing process out of order. Estimating manpower requirements comes first.
• Listing the steps of selection as if they were the steps of staffing. Preliminary screening, selection tests and the employment interview belong to selection.
• Calling promotion an external source.
• Answering a "limitation" MCQ with an advantage, since the stem often says "not a limitation".
• Naming a source of recruitment without the reason it fits the case, which loses the second mark.

Using the Answer Key and Solutions

The PDF is 78 pages and free to download. Each section is sorted newest year first, the Answer Key lists every MCQ at a glance, and each question links to its worked solution and back. Attempt a section first, check the key, then read the solution and note the common mistake given with it. The solutions are written by Collegedunia's Business Studies experts and are not official CBSE marking schemes.

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