EXAMINER’S GENERAL COMMENTS The overall performance of candidates was generally below expectation, given that the questions were within the scope of the syllabus and were equally spread over same. Most of the candidates did not seem to have prepared well for the examinations.

STANDARD OF THE PAPER The Business Management and Information Systems paper was of standard quality. The marks allocated followed the weightings in the syllabus. There were neither grammatical errors nor typing or other errors in the questions. There were also no ambiguities in the questions and none of the questions was ‘too loaded’. The marks allocated to questions were just right. The questions were fairly spread across the syllabus.