FORM THREE COMMERCE TERMINAL EXAMS
PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SECONDARY EXAMINATION SERIES
TERMINAL EXAMINATION MAY -2025
FORM THREE COMMERCE
Instructions
1. This paper consists of three section A, B and C with a total of  eleven (11)  questions.
2. Answer all questions from section A and B and two questions from section C.
3. Section A carries  sixteen (16) marks , section B carries  fifty four (54) marks  and section C  carries  thirty (30)  marks.
4. All writing should be in blue ink except  diagrams  which must be in pencil.
5. All communication devices and any  unauthorized  material are not allowed in the  examination room.
6. Write your  assessment number  at the top right corner of every page.
SECTION A: 16 MARKS
Answer  all  questions
1. For each of the items  (i –x)  choose the most from the given alternatives and write its letter  beside the item number in the answer sheet (booklet) provided.
(i) Suppose you have attended a commercial debate with the motion " auxiliary services are not necessary to traders" which option will you choose as correct to oppose the motion
A. Auxiliary service support producers and not traders
B. Auxiliary services attract more buyers hence low price for the go
C. Auxiliary services act as a link between traders and manufacturers
D. Auxiliary service is used to determine price of the goods produced
E. Auxiliary services facilitate trade to take place smoothly
(ii) Quantity supplied of rice increased from 500 tons to 10,000 tons during Christmas seasons in  2023. What do you think being main reason for this change?
A. Increase in income of consumers
B. Increase in population during the season
C. Increase in price of substitute goods of rice
D. Decrease in price of rice
E. Increase in price of rice
(iii) An entrepreneur should posse's different skills in order to succeed in any endeavour of his  choice. Which among the skills enable entrepreneurs to be able to get best resources such as  manpower, financial and physical resources for success of their venture?
A. Communication skills
B. Leadership and management skills
C. Planning and goals setting skills
D. Marketing skills
E. Networking skills
(iv) Suppose your desire is to own a telephone, your father bought a telephone of your choice in  your birthday ceremony. Which type of utility will you get by having your own telephone?
A. Possession utility
B. Form utility
C. Place utility
D. Marginal utility
E. Time utility
(v) Kb family produce maize for sale in the market. Which feature among the following illustrate  kind of production Kb family involved
A. Kb use simple tools
B. Kb applies division of labour
C. Kb produce maize in a small scale
D. Poor quality of goods produced by Kb
E. Kb produce maize for private use
(vi). Mlimani city is a well-known trading center in Dar es salaam city because it comprises of a  big number of businesses. What is a general term describing this type of trading centre?
A. Hypermarket
B. Departmental store
C. Supermarket
D. Tied shop
E. Chain store
(vii). A shift of demand curve from right to left reflects:
A. An increase in demand
B. A decrease in demand
C. An increase in price resulted from shortage of supply
D. A decrease in price resulted from an increase in supply
E. A constant price causing a shift in demand
(viii). What term is used to mean the element of communication through which an information is  passed from one person to another?
A. Receiver
B. Sender
C. Medium
D. Message
E. Encoder
(ix). Which of the following indicates a face to face selling in which the seller of a commodity  tries to convince a customer to buy products:
A. Personal buying
B. Personal selling
C. Personal advice
D. Aggressive selling
E. Convincing power
(x). Which of the trade consists of the intangible itnports and expotts?
A. Invisible trade
B. Visible imports and visible exports
C. Visible exports
D. Invisible imports
E. Entreport trade
2. Match the explanation in  LIST A  with the most correct response from  LIST B  and write its  letter in the answer sheet(s) provided.
SECTION B (54 Marks)
Answer All questions in this section
3. Some people are arguing that Entrepreneurship is a wastage of time not only to individuals but  also the nations and the world at large. As an expert in commercial field, briefly explain for them  six (6) importance of Entrepreneurship.
4. You are provided with the following information from Kagera Traders store for the year  31.12.2013.
Stock 01.01.2013 555,700
Stock 31.12.2013 424,200
Purchases for the year 3842,000
Sales of the year 5,000,000
Assist Kagera Traders to calculate: 
i. cost of sales
ii. Average stock
iii. Stock turn rate
iv. Gross profit
5. Malingumu is trade who exports petrol from Tanzania to Zambia and he did not know the best  means of transport to be used. As a commercial student
a. Identify and suggest the suitable means of transport to be used
b. Describe four  (4)  advantages and four  (4)  disadvantages of the means transport chosen in  6(a) above
6. Mayele wishes to become an entrepreneur, but he does not know the attributes of being an  entrepreneur. As a commercial student help him by giving not less than five points
7. One of form one students argued that ”aids to trade plays an important role in trade ” justify  the validity of this statement.
8. As a business person, how do you distinguish the following concepts in the context of the  market of your product?
a. A change in quantity demanded and a change in demand
b. A change in quantity supplied and a change in supply
c. An equilibrium price and an equilibrium quantity
SECTION C: (30 Marks)
Answer  two (2)  questions from this section
9. Most of young aged in the society complain that they cannot find opportunities for the sake of  employing them self. You as commerce learned can you advise them how they can find  opportunities in the country. (5 ways)
10. Mizambwa graduated in one of the university in 2015 and he has been always looking for job  in different companies. His friend Mkude advice Mizambwa to have self-employment, you as a  form four student join with Mkude to advice Mizambwa by showing six benefits of self- employment.
11. When a Biology teacher reaches to the topic of disease he decide to use a television diseases  programme to show the student how people suffer from different types of diseases, the media  send the information clearly to the students and every student understood the lesson very well.
a. What type of communication the teacher use?
b. Explain any three advantages and three disadvantages of communication used.

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FORM THREE COMMERCE EXAM SERIES 225  

THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA PRESIDENT’S OFFICE- REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

FORM THREE TERMINAL EXAMINATION

061 COMMERCE

TIME: 3 Hours

Instructions

1. This paper consists of sections A, B and C with a total of ten (10) questions

2. Answer all questions in section A and B and two (2) questions from section C.

3. Section A carries twenty (20) Marks, section B Fifty (50) marks and section C carries thirty (30) marks.

4. Cellular phones and any unauthorized materials are not allowed in the examination

5. Write your Name on every page of your answer booklet(s)

SECTION A (20 Marks)

Answer all questions from this section

1. For each of the items (i) – (xv) choose the correct answer from among the given alternative and write its letter beside the item number on the answer sheet provided

i. Mr. Brian is a trader selling second hand clothes that normally buying them from Dubai and selling them Dar es salaam-Tanzania. Which type of trade Mr. Brian conducting?

  1. Retail trade 
  2. Export trade 
  3. Wholesale trade 
  4. Import trade 
  5. Home trade

ii. Which is the correct reason for the movement along the demand curve?

  1. Change in taste and fashion
  2. Change in people’s level of income
  3. Change in the price of the commodity
  4. Change in the demand of the other goods
  5. Change in the value for money 

iii.Suppose a form one commerce student asked you about the best way of describing the term commerce. Which of the following is the best response that you could give?

  1. Commerce deals with distribution of goods to final users
  2. Commerce deals with exchange of goods and service
  3. commerce deals with exchange and distribution of goods and services
  4. commerce deals with exchange of goods and services within the country
  5. Commerce deals with exchange of goods and services outside the Country 

iv. The following are the roles of entrepreneurship in economic development except:

  1. creation of friendship among the countries 
  2. creation of employment opportunities
  3. improvement on peoples’ living standards
  4. improvement in per capital income
  5. capital formation

v. Which one among the following is the correct classification of warehouses?

  1. Private warehouse, bonded warehouse and wholesalers warehouses
  2. Bonded warehouse, private warehouse and retailers warehouse
  3. Public warehouses, private warehouses and bonded warehouse
  4. Public warehouses, bonded warehouses and producers warehouses
  5. Wholesalers warehouses, retailers warehouses and manufacturers warehouses

vi. If there was a farmer who had wheat and wanted salt he had to find one who had salt and wanted wheat, this is an example of:

  1. Difficult in transporting immobile items.
  2. Invisibility of some items.
  3. Lack of store of value.
  4. Need of double coincidence of wants.
  5. Lack of measure of value.

vii. Which of the following is not a feature of free goods?

  1. They are not scare
  2. They are not produced by human effort
  3. They are not transferable in terms of ownership
  4. They lack exchange value
  5. They are transferable in terms of ownership 

viii. Nearly every journey involves junctions where we can transfer from one form of transport to another, in this case we are referring to:

  1. The way
  2. The unit of carriage
  3. The terminal
  4. The unit of propulsion
  5. None of the above.

ix. Suppose you have bought medicine from India and they are urgently needed to serve the life of patients in Tanzania, which mode of transport would consider being appropriate?

  1. Road transport
  2. Air transport
  3. water transport
  4. Railway transport
  5. Pipeline transport

x. Under which classification the services provided by teachers, lawyers and police to their customers are categories? 

  1. Direct services
  2. Auxiliary services
  3. Personal services
  4. Public services
  5. Indirect services 

xi. The following are the functions of production department in management except

  1. controlling the quality of goods produced in production department
  2. maintaining the quality of machines in the production department
  3. developing and implementing production plans
  4. preparation of budget for activities carried in the department
  5. Recruiting members of staff for production department.

xii. The process of giving a particular name to a product is called

  1. Pre-packaging
  2. Trade naming
  3. Pre-packing
  4. Branding
  5. Retailing

 xiii. A delcredere agent

  1. receives longer credit terms from his principals in consideration of higher trade discount
  2. Obtains higher commission as he guarantees payment for goods sold on behalf of his principals
  3. Handles only imported goods of high standing
  4. Receive longer credit terms from his principals in consideration of lower trade discount
  5. Is given credit from his principals but himself sales only by cash 

xiv. Aids to trade may be defined as the activities aimed at

  1. Assisting the consumers directly
  2. Making the work of those involved in manufacturing of essential goods easy
  3. Helping producers directly
  4. Bridging the gap between the producer and a consumer
  5. Helping retailers directly 

xv.Why does elimination of the wholesaler from the channel of distribution not affect the flow of goods from the manufacturer to the final consumer?

  1. The wholesaler has very small amount of capital.
  2. The wholesaler performs the only selling function.
  3. All goods involved in the channel of distribution are branded.
  4. In regardless of the financial position, manufacturer can sell direct to final users.
  5. The wholesaler’s functions can be performed by other agents.

2. Match the item in LIST A with the response in LIST B by writing the letter of the correct response beside the number in the table provided below

LIST A

LIST B

(i) Account holder required to deposit specific initial amount as well as maintain balance

(ii) Account holder may deposit and withdraw money whenever they want without maintain minimum balance

(iii) Banks pays interest on deposit at comparatively higher rates 

(iv) Money may be deposited at time and interest is earned if specific balance is maintained

(v) Account holder can withdraw money from his account more than his outstanding balance

  1. Standing order
  2. Bank rate
  3. Legal tender
  4. Fixed deposit
  5. Bank over draft
  6. Bank charges
  7. Saving account
  8. Cheque
  9. Current account
  10. Personal account

 SECTION B (50 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section

3. Martine is a bookseller in Dodoma, and he wants to choose the best communication media that will help him to reach his customers countrywide easily. He approached you as a business communication expert to advise him

(a)What suitable communication media should he use?

(b)What factors have been considered in selecting the medium in (a) above? Six factors

4. Being employed in an organization will not make a person rich, but being a boss for you is a source of richness to many entrepreneurs. Briefly explain three benefits and two demerits of self-employment to the people of Tanzania.

5. Mundemu secondary school after the loss of sacks of corn, A food Teacher Madame Isuchaa insists on establishing a large building which will be used for the storage of maize, rice and oils for future use and that building will help the school for the protection like bad weather and theft. What factors do you think will be considered for the establishment of that building?

6. Given the diagram below.

a) Name and explain the diagram above.

b) Explain six (6) reasons that might be reasons for the shift from either 0QE to 0Q1 or 0QE to 0Q2.

7. Mwambola is a trader who exports fresh fish and flowers from Tanzania to Japan and he did not know the best means of transport to be used. As a commercial student:

a) Identify and suggest the suitable means of transport to be used.

b) Describe two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of the means transport chosen in (a) above.

SECTION C (30 Marks)

Answer only two questions in this section

8. Sunflower Oil industry at Singida uses wholesalers in distributing its products all over Tanzania. With some reasons, the wholesalers have decided to step down. Explain how the Industry is negatively being affected by stepping down of the wholesalers. Give six points.

9. Money to be called money should have traits. Examine six things which make money to be money.

10. Advertising is considered as an aid to trade because of the role it play in spreading information about goods and services and creating inclination in the mind of the consumers. Without effective advertising it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for any large scale organization to stay in business. Advice to large scale organization six factors that should be considered when choosing advertising media


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FORM THREE COMMERCE EXAM SERIES 93  

THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, LOCAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

COMMERCE- TERMINAL EXAMINATION-MAY

FORM THREE

TIME: 2:30HRS                                                                2020

NAME:_______________________________________________                     CLASS:___________

INSTRUCTIONS

  • This paper consists two sections A and B
  • Answer All questions in both sections
  • Answers should be written in blue/black ink

SECTION A

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. For each of items (i)-(x), choose the correct answer from among the given alternatives and write its letter in the boxes provided below:

(i) All of the following methods are involved in a barter exchange except:

  1. The buyer must have some goods to give to the seller
  2. The buyer must pay cash to the seller
  3. The buyer can offer labour services to obtain goods
  4. There must be a double coincidence of wants

 (ii)  Which one of the following is an example of a barter trade?

  1. Fish and coins
  2. Goat and notes
  3. Cow and chair
  4. Sheep and silver coins

 (iii) Which of the following industries deal with natural resources?

  1. Manufacturing
  2. Constructive
  3. Extractive
  4. Textile 

 (iv) The resources in the form of money or materials that a person or an organization has for establishing and running a business is called:

  1. Merchandise
  2. Basic needs
  3. Capital
  4. Debts

 (v)  The point where demand and supply curves intercept is called:

  1. Centre point
  2. Zero point
  3. Equilibrium point
  4. Margin

 (vi) A refrigerator used in making ice cream for sale, is in the category of:

  1. Consumer goods
  2. Luxury goods
  3. Producer goods
  4. Domestic goods

 (vii) Generally, more goods will be supplied when:

  1. Prices are relatively high
  2. Prices are relatively low
  3. Prices are fairly competitive
  4. Prices are fixed by the government 

 (viii) Traders who do not have permanent business premises are called:

  1. Itinerant traders
  2. Gamblers 
  3. Brokers
  4. Underwriters
  5. Retailers

 (ix) The last people in the distribution chain are:

  1. The customers
  2. The retailers
  3. The wholesalers
  4. The consumers

 (x) Given that:

  • Daily sales = 20 tins of NIDO milk
  • Delivery time = 5 days
  • Minimum stock = 100 tins of NIDO milk

Order point is:

  1. 200 tins
  2. 150 tins
  3. 180 tins
  4. 100 tins

2. MATCHING ITEMS

Choose the items in group A that matches with the items in group B

LIST A

LIST B

(i) The period of time between ordering and replenishment, i.e. when goods are available for use

(ii) The level reached immediately after the receipt of new supply of goods

(iii) Is a document sent by the seller to the buyer to correct an overcharge on the original invoice

(iv) Is a document sent by the seller to the buyer to correct an undercharge on the original invoice

(v) Are self-services shops that stock varieties of items? 

 

  1. Super markets
  2. Retailers
  3. Credit note
  4. Debit note
  5. Cheque
  6. Drafts
  7. Wholesalers
  8. Manufacturers
  9. Issuing of stock
  10. Order point
  11. Care of stock
  12. Lead or procurement time
  13. Stock taking
  14. Maximum stock
  15. Stock valuation

 

SECTION B

3. Short answer questions

  1. Traditional Media
  2. Visual communication
  3. Inflation
  4. Expansionary Monetary policy
  5. Savings bank

SECTION C

Answer All questions in this section 

4. “Money is as money does “Discuss.

5. Discuss the importance of communication to business

6. a) What is B.O.T?

b) Examine the functions of B.O.T in Tanzania

7. Explain the  qualities of a good retailer

8. Explain the problems facing communication in Tanzania

9. a)Explain the term “ Transportation”

b) State the merits of air transport in Tanzania. (Five points)

10. Discuss the factors which must be considered for choosing a mode of transport

 

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