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Grade 7 EMS Term 2 Test + Memo

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About this resource

Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for Term 2 Economic Management Sciences (EMS) with this comprehensive 80-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 90 minutes and includes a balanced combination of recall, understanding, application and higher-order reasoning questions.

The test covers:

  • Basic economic concepts
  • Needs and wants
  • Primary needs
  • Economic goods
  • The economic problem and scarcity
  • Modern societies and standards of living
  • The poverty line
  • Labour and the workforce
  • Retailers and the tertiary sector
  • Sustainability
  • Promissory notes
  • Income and expenses
  • Fixed and variable expenses
  • Personal budgets
  • Saving and spending
  • Revenue
  • Sole proprietorships
  • Service businesses
  • Franchises
  • Market research
  • Business plans
  • Assets and liabilities
  • Fixed and current assets
  • Long-term and current liabilities
  • Income and expense accounts
  • Classifying accounts
  • Statement of Net Worth
  • Calculating assets, liabilities and net worth
  • Entrepreneurship and small businesses
  • Business income, expenses and profit
  • Marketing and promoting a business
  • Poverty and inequality in South Africa
  • Socio-economic imbalances
  • United Nations Millennium Development Goals
  • Unemployment in South Africa
  • The impact of COVID-19 on employment
  • The role of banks in the economy
  • Ways of addressing unemployment
  • BBBEE, ATM, EFT and EPWP

Total: 80 marks | Duration: 90 minutes | Full memorandum included | PDF format.

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