February 2025

Energy:Thermal power

By |2025-02-12T09:28:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Hwange Thermal Power Station. Image credit businessdaily.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Energy:Thermal power

  • In thermal power production, fuel is used to heat water in huge boilers, converting this water into steam.
  • The steam at high pressure and through pipes, is directed to turbines.
  • The pressure turns the turbines […]
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Small scale energy sources and plants:Bio-fuel

By |2025-02-12T09:45:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Jatropha plant. Image credit jatropha.org.za

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Energy:Small scale energy sources and plants:Bio-fuel

  • is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes,
  • such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion,
  • rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil […]
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Weimer Republic: Economic Problems

By |2025-02-12T09:02:34+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Germany coins 1931

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany: Economic Problems

  • The war had left Germany bankrupt
  • Germany was forced to pay war reparations amounting to 6 600 million pounds
  • This amount was very detrimental to Germany economy but was reduced later
  • The living standards of […]
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The Occupation of Czechoslovakia

By |2025-02-12T09:06:08+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Russian troops enter Czechoslovakia

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany: Adolf Hitler: The Occupation of Czechoslovakia

  • The Czech republic was formed after the Treaty of Versailles
  • It has a population of about 14 million people who were former residents of Bohemia, Moravia and other smaller territories

    • […]

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President Roosevelt and the Great Depression

By |2025-02-12T08:57:41+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: President Roosevelt and the Great Depression

  • He defeated Hoover in the 1932 presidential elections and presented a ‘New Deal’
  • The new deal had the following aims:
    1. To provide employment for the unemployed
    2. To revive the […]
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Human Resources Management: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:16:42+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Managing Human Resources: Human Resources Management: Introduction

  • The process of hiring and developing employees so that they become more valuable to the organization
  • It involves the following activities:
    1. Job Analysis
    2. Anticipating and planning the organisation’s personnel needs
    3. Job Advertising
    4. Recruiting the right people to do the job
    5. Selecting the appropriate candidates from the […]
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Marketing Research and Market Research

By |2025-02-12T09:36:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Marketing Research

  • Businesses identify and anticipate customer needs and wants using market research
  • Market research is the process concerned with identifying consumer needs and wants
  • Market research is not to be confused with marketing research
  • Market research is merely one part of market research
  • Marketing research is the systematic and objective collection, […]
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Marketing: Personal Selling

By |2025-02-12T09:12:04+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Personal Selling

  • Face-to-face selling in which a seller attempts to persuade a buyer to make a purchase.
  • It aims to persuade the customer and push the product by emphasizing it’s uses and advantages
  • It involves two way communication unlike the case with other forms of promotion such as advertising
  • Personal selling staff […]
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The location of a business

By |2025-02-12T09:30:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Production: The location of a business

  • When a business is formed, a new branch is being opened or the current site because unsatisfactory for some reason a business has to consider the location question
  • Location refers to the physical site upon which a business is located
  • A business’s objectives are in constant flux […]
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Uses, advantages and disadvantages of budgets

By |2025-02-12T09:13:33+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: Ratio Analysis: Budgets: Uses, advantages and disadvantages of budgets

  • Facilitate coordination between departments within the organisation
  • Helps to assign and clarify responsibilities e.g. the production department must produce and the marketing department sell produced units
  • Help to translate strategic plans into actionable departmental goals
  • Improves communication
  • Help to control […]
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