Education and Career Forum

IGNOU gives a diploma in retailing and one paper in that course is overview of retailing. It is important that one answers the paper well. One must focus on the questions and answer keeping the questions in mind. To the point answering helps in getting good marks. The paper pattern is simple and all questions carry equal or 10 marks each. The total mark is 50 in 2 hours time. You can answer any 5 from the 8 questions given. Everyday low pricing, clothing and foot wear chain as well as supply chain management are important topics to be read and covered. Difference of departmental store as well as supermarket and even importance of business ethics is really vital in the subject. Rural retailing and the formats prevalent in our country will fetch you good marks as these topics are relevant in the paper. A good knowledge of all the parts of the syllabus is required in order to answer this paper properly as questions can be from any part. Below are attached some previous year’s question papers for your help.