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The first hard mock exams went live

The day practice papers became available to students outside the team, and we began the careful keep-or-cut process that we still use.

16 May was the first evening when students outside our team sat mock exams we could not change while they were taking them. Some scores were low. Some explanations needed corrections. We rewrote quickly and learned that publishing a hard paper is more demanding than planning one.

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Hard mock · EconomicsQuestion 1 / 12ECON-3.120:48:00

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Chapter 3 · Focus on different types of businesses

Stakeholders of a growing company

A regional logistics company plans to open a new depot. Local residents complain about noise, employees ask for more shifts, and the bank that financed the fleet asks for updated figures.

  1. #StatementTrue
  2. A.

    Employees are internal stakeholders, while local residents are external stakeholders.

  3. B.

    The bank is a stakeholder because the repayment of its loan depends on the company's performance.

  4. C.

    Only shareholders can be described as stakeholders of the company.

  5. D.

    Conflicting stakeholder interests can force management to compromise between growth and local acceptance.

  6. E.

    Banks can be external stakeholders through lending even when they hold no equity in the firm.

Hard mock under the clock: mark statements on Q1, jump via the palette to Q2, keep answering.

Draft outcomes

How many tasks we kept or removed

Last economics bank pass, relative counts

The keep-or-cut habit began that month. Writing drafts is easier than deciding which tasks should stay in front of students.

If your first mock felt unfair, tell us which task. If it felt fair but still difficult, that is closer to the real exam than another round of easy practice. We kept the useful difficulty and removed the parts that were hard only because the wording was unclear.

Task bank rewrite

Where editing time went

Relative effort, last major pass

Where editing time still goes after a paper is live: checking false statements and improving explanations.

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