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WACE Business Management and Enterprise exam 2026Exam: Wed 11 Nov · SCSA timetable

Your WACE Business Management and Enterprise exam:

When and how long

  • Business Management and Enterprise9.20 am start3 h plus 10 min reading time

SCSA: arrive 30 minutes before the examination start time. Every ATAR written exam has 10 minutes reading time and 3 hours working time unless otherwise indicated. The timetable is final, and no allowance is made for misreading it.

Source: 2026 Year 12 ATAR course written examinations timetable (SCSA), checked Wednesday 23 September 2026. Where a start time, reading time or duration isn't shown, the timetable doesn't publish it: check your personal timetable and the front of your paper.

What the exam covers

We don't have past-paper frequency data for this exam, so here is the course, module by module. Make sure every module is covered.

Night-before and exam-morning checklists

The night before

  • Check your personalised timetable: SCSA makes no allowance for missing an exam by misreading it.[1]
  • Read SCSA's Year 12 Information Handbook, Part II: Examinations (sitting an exam means you are taken to know it).[1]
  • Pack your equipment the night before, set two alarms and sleep.[2]

Exam morning

  • Arrive 30 minutes before the start time (9.20 am or 2.00 pm).[1]
  • Most exams have 10 minutes reading time before working time starts.[1]
  • Leave your phone and other electronic devices outside the exam room.[2]
  1. SCSA: 2026 ATAR course written examinations timetable
  2. Our exam-day guides (HSC, VCE, QCE)

Exam-week survival kit: The last 7 days · The night before and exam morning · What to bring, and what's banned · How to use reading time · If you're sick or something goes wrong · Handling exam-week stress.

Last-week revision

WACE Business Management and Enterprise cram sheet

Key formulas, definitions and facts copied from our Business Management and Enterprise syllabus pages. One page when printed.

Unit 3: Strategic international business growth

Hedging: forward exchange contracts lock in a future rate; currency options give the right, but not the obligation, to exchange at a set rate.

From: Financial risk in export markets and feasibility of foreign expansion
Force field analysis

List driving forces (for change) and restraining forces (against change), and rate their strength.

From: Change management (Lewin, Kotter) and cultural considerations

Joint venture: partners create a new jointly owned business.

From: Standardisation vs adaptation, global strategic alliances and innovation

Unit 4: Global business operations

Four functions
  • Planning: set objectives and choose strategies.
  • Organising: allocate people, resources and tasks; design structure.
  • Leading: motivate, communicate, guide and resolve conflict.
  • Controlling: monitor performance, compare with targets and correct.
From: Features and traits of successful management

Vision and mission: where the business wants to go and why it exists.

From: The strategic planning process, SWOT analysis and strategic plans

E-commerce: own websites, apps and global marketplaces let a business sell anywhere, around the clock.

From: Technology in global markets: e-commerce, digital marketing, supply chains and cyber risk

Interest rates: the cost of borrowing; higher rates raise loan costs and reduce consumer spending.

From: Ethics, economic factors and financial institutions
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