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Choose the… (Class 12 Business Studies SQP 2026-27, Q6)

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Business StudiesCBSE Class 12 · Sample paper, session 2026-27 · 1 mark · MCQ

CBSE Class 12 Business Studies sample paper 2026-27: question 6

From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2026-27, section A, question 6, for 1 mark. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q6 · 1 mark · MCQControlling

Choose the correct statement about controlling function of management:

  1. (A)Controlling completes one cycle of management process and improves planning in the next cycle.
  2. (B)Controlling is the function of management that initiates action by people in the organisation.
  3. (C)Controlling involves only looking back and not looking ahead.
  4. (D)Standards in the Controlling process must be set in quantitative terms only.

Source: official sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in (PDF). See it in the full Sample paper 2026-27.

Hints

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Hint 1

Which function initiates action: directing or controlling?

Hint 2

Can standards be qualitative?

Step-by-step solution

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  1. (B) describes directing, which initiates action; (C) is wrong because controlling also looks ahead; (D) is wrong because standards may be qualitative as well.

  2. Controlling closes one cycle of the management process and its findings improve planning in the next cycle. Option (A).

    1 mark

Answer: (A) Controlling completes one cycle of management process and improves planning in the next cycle.

Where the marks are

  • Controlling is backward- and forward-looking and links to planning (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Controlling, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paperSample paper 2026-27: every question, by section.

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