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Key Facts: BCS Written Marketing Exam

721

BPSC subject code for post-related Marketing

BPSC BCS written syllabus

200 marks

Official paper size (Part I 100 + Part II 100)

BPSC BCS written syllabus

4 hours

Duration used for BPSC 200-mark written papers; confirm the routine

BPSC sitting practice

50% aggregate

Written-stage pass on the 900-mark written exam

BPSC BCS examination page

Tk. 200 / Tk. 50

50th BCS application fee (general / reduced categories)

50th BCS circular reporting citing PSC

Descriptive

Official item type (this bank is an English MCQ study adaptation)

BPSC written syllabus

BPSC Marketing (subject 721) is a 200-mark, 4-hour descriptive written paper split 100/100 between Part I and Part II. Written qualification is 50% aggregate on the 900-mark written exam, with per-paper minima as set by BPSC. Application is Tk. 200 general / Tk. 50 reduced categories for the 50th BCS, with no separate written fee. This page offers English MCQs as a study aid, not an official-paper simulation.

Sample BCS Written Marketing Practice Questions

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1In the BPSC Marketing syllabus sense of core marketing concepts, marketing is best defined as the organizational process of creating, communicating, and delivering value so that the firm can:
A.Maximize factory utilization regardless of whether buyers want the output
B.Build profitable customer relationships by satisfying target needs better than rivals
C.Push unsold inventory through high-pressure personal selling alone
D.Set the lowest possible price in every Bangladesh district at once
Explanation: Core marketing treats the firm as managing profitable customer relationships: it identifies target needs, designs a market offering, and delivers value and satisfaction. Volume, selling pressure, or blanket low prices are tools, not the definition of marketing.
2A Dhaka commuter needs reliable daily travel. Choosing a CNG, bus, or ride-hailing app is best classified as which core marketing distinction?
A.A need (mobility) expressed as alternative wants, which become demand when backed by buying power
B.A demand that exists even if the person cannot pay
C.A product concept because vehicles are tangible goods
D.A public, because government is always the customer
Explanation: Needs are basic human requirements; wants are the specific forms those needs take; demands are wants backed by purchasing power. The commuter’s need is mobility; CNG, bus, or app are wants; only paying customers convert those wants into demand.
3A firm that assumes customers will not buy enough unless the company undertakes large-scale selling and promotion is practising which marketplace orientation?
A.The production concept
B.The selling concept
C.The marketing concept
D.The societal marketing concept
Explanation: The selling concept starts inside the firm with existing products and uses aggressive selling and promotion to obtain transactions. It is typical when capacity exceeds demand or when the product is unsought. It is not the same as finding and serving target needs.
4Which company orientation holds that consumers prefer products that are widely available and inexpensive, so management should concentrate on production and distribution efficiency?
A.The product concept
B.The customer concept
C.The marketing concept
D.The production concept
Explanation: The production concept is the oldest orientation: make more, make it cheap, and make it available. It can fit genuine shortage situations but fails when buyers want variety, quality, or service that efficiency alone does not provide.
5A tobacco or junk-food marketer that designs a legal offering customers want, but ignores long-run health and social costs, has failed which orientation named on the BCS syllabus?
A.The production concept
B.The product concept
C.The societal marketing concept
D.The selling concept
Explanation: The societal marketing concept requires a balance among company profits, consumer wants, and society’s long-run interests. Satisfying a want that harms health or the environment is not societal marketing, even if the product sells.
6How does the customer concept, as listed separately from the marketing concept on the BCS syllabus, change the firm’s focus?
A.It abandons target markets and sells one standardized item to everyone
B.It shifts from serving a segment with a standard mix toward individualized offers, share of customer, and lifetime value
C.It replaces all promotion with personal selling in export processing zones
D.It is identical to the production concept under another name
Explanation: The marketing concept serves a chosen target market with a coordinated mix. The customer concept goes further: treat customers as individuals, customize, and grow lifetime value and share of wallet rather than only market share.
7Which set correctly lists the actors of the marketing microenvironment?
A.The company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customers, competitors, and publics
B.Only demographic, economic, natural, technological, political-legal, and social-cultural forces
C.Only BSTI, EPB, EPZ, and the stock exchange
D.Only advertising agencies and media owners
Explanation: The microenvironment is the set of close actors that affect the firm’s ability to serve customers: internal departments, suppliers, intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics. Macro forces sit one layer out.
8Which group of forces belongs to the marketing macroenvironment on the BCS syllabus?
A.Suppliers, retailers, and logistics firms
B.The firm’s finance, R&D, and purchasing departments
C.Financial, media, government, citizen-action, local, and general publics
D.Demographic, economic, natural, technological, political-legal, and social-cultural forces
Explanation: Macroenvironment analysis looks at the six broad forces the syllabus names: demographic, economic, natural, technological, political-legal, and social-cultural. Firms cannot control them in the short run but must identify and respond to them.
9A marketer tracking age structure, household size, urbanization, and occupational mix is mainly scanning which macroenvironment force?
A.The natural environment
B.The demographic environment
C.The technological environment
D.Channel conflict inside a vertical marketing system
Explanation: Demography is the study of human populations: size, density, location, age, gender, occupation, and other statistics. Those trends shape market size and segment opportunities. They are not the same as ecology, technology, or channel design.
10In Bangladesh, a packaged-food brand that redesigns labels and recipes because of labeling rules and food-safety enforcement is primarily responding to which macro force?
A.Only the natural environment, because food is agricultural
B.Only the selling concept, because labels are promotion
C.The political-legal environment, often interacting with social-cultural expectations of safety
D.A horizontal marketing system among retailers
Explanation: Laws, regulations, and enforcement (including standards bodies) are political-legal forces. Consumer expectations of hygiene and halal practice are social-cultural. Marketers must read both; they are not solved by calling the label a selling campaign or a retailer alliance.

About the BCS Written Marketing Exam

BCS Written Post-Related Marketing (subject code 721) is a 200-mark descriptive paper for technical/professional and dual-cadre BCS applicants whose post-related subject is Marketing. Part I and Part II carry 100 marks each. The official BPSC page lists a 900-mark written stage with a 50% aggregate pass, then a viva voce (the same page still lists 200 marks with a 50% pass; news from the 47th BCS onward has reported a 100-mark viva—confirm the current circular). This free bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation of the official syllabus—not an official translation, format simulation, or substitute for timed written answers.

Assessment

Subject code 721, 200 marks, two parts of 100 marks each. Part I: introduction and orientations; environment; STP; product, services and branding; pricing; advertising, sales promotion and public relations; channels and supply chain; marketing in Bangladesh (BSTI, EPB, EPZ, stock exchange). Part II: IMC; personal selling and direct marketing; company and marketing strategy; competitive advantage; new market offerings; global market offerings; retailing, wholesaling and market logistics. Official answers are descriptive. This page's MCQs are a free English study adaptation only.

Time Limit

4 hours

Passing Score

50% aggregate on the 900-mark written exam (BPSC page); per-paper minima also apply as set by BPSC

Exam Fee

Tk. 200 general (50th BCS); Tk. 50 for ethnic minority, persons with disabilities, and third-gender applicants; no separate written/viva fee. Confirm the current circular. (Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC))

BCS Written Marketing Exam Content Outline

about 18% of this bank

Part I — Orientations, environment and STP

Definition and core marketing concepts; production, product, selling, marketing, customer, and societal orientations (including Bangladesh application); micro and macro environment; segmentation, targeting, and positioning.

about 14% of this bank

Part I — Product, services, branding and pricing

Product levels, classifications, mix and life cycle; service characteristics and strategies; brand-name and brand-strategy decisions; pricing approaches, new-product and mix pricing, and price-adjustment tactics.

about 18% of this bank

Part I — Promotion, channels and Bangladesh marketing

Advertising, sales promotion and public relations; supply chain and value-delivery networks; vertical and horizontal systems; channel management; consumer-product problems and prospects; roles of BSTI, EPB, EPZ and the stock exchange.

about 26% of this bank

Part II — IMC, selling, strategy and competition

Communication process and IMC mix; personal selling steps, CRM and direct marketing; market-oriented mission, portfolio and marketing process; competitor analysis and leader, challenger, follower and nicher strategies.

about 24% of this bank

Part II — NPD, global offerings and logistics

New-product development from ideas to commercialization; consumer-adoption process; whether and how to go abroad; export, licensing, joint venture and direct investment; retailing, wholesaling and market logistics.

How to Pass the BCS Written Marketing Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: 50% aggregate on the 900-mark written exam (BPSC page); per-paper minima also apply as set by BPSC
  • Assessment: Subject code 721, 200 marks, two parts of 100 marks each. Part I: introduction and orientations; environment; STP; product, services and branding; pricing; advertising, sales promotion and public relations; channels and supply chain; marketing in Bangladesh (BSTI, EPB, EPZ, stock exchange). Part II: IMC; personal selling and direct marketing; company and marketing strategy; competitive advantage; new market offerings; global market offerings; retailing, wholesaling and market logistics. Official answers are descriptive. This page's MCQs are a free English study adaptation only.
  • Time limit: 4 hours
  • Exam fee: Tk. 200 general (50th BCS); Tk. 50 for ethnic minority, persons with disabilities, and third-gender applicants; no separate written/viva fee. Confirm the current circular.

Keys to Passing

  • Work through all 100 available questions
  • Review every answer and explanation
  • Track weak areas and revisit them
  • Use our AI tutor for tough concepts

BCS Written Marketing Study Tips from Top Performers

1Weight revision 50/50 between Part I and Part II; both official parts are 100 marks.
2Memorize the syllabus's named orientations (production, product, selling, marketing, customer, societal) and be ready to apply them to Bangladesh without inventing market-share figures.
3For mix questions, keep Kotler tools distinct: PLC strategies, brand-strategy grid (line extension, brand extension, multibrand, new brand), and price-adjustment tactics.
4For Bangladesh items, know the marketing roles of BSTI (standards and certification), EPB (export promotion), EPZs/BEPZA (export-oriented production zones), and the stock exchange (capital raising and listed-firm disclosure)—not unofficial share statistics.
5Use this MCQ bank to lock definitions, then practise timed descriptive outlines; the official paper is not multiple choice.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is BCS Written Post-Related Marketing (subject code 721)?

It is the 200-mark post-related written paper in Marketing on the official BPSC BCS written syllabus. Technical/professional cadre candidates sit a 200-mark post-related subject; dual-cadre applicants sit that paper in addition to the general written set. Marks are split Part I 100 and Part II 100.

Is the official Marketing paper multiple choice?

No. The official paper is descriptive (essays and short answers). This bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation of the syllabus, not an official translation, format simulation, or substitute for writing practice.

What is the pass mark for the BCS written examination?

The BPSC BCS page requires a 50% aggregate on the 900-mark written examination. Per-paper minima also apply as set by BPSC. Confirm the circular for the cycle you are sitting.

How long is the Marketing written paper?

Four hours is the duration used for BPSC 200-mark written papers on this site and in longstanding BPSC sitting practice. Always confirm the current examination routine.

What is the BCS application fee?

For the 50th BCS, Tk. 200 for general candidates and Tk. 50 for ethnic minority, persons with disabilities, and third-gender applicants, paid via Teletalk. There is no separate written or viva fee. Confirm the live circular.

What does Part I of the Marketing syllabus cover?

Part I (100 marks) covers the definition and core concepts of marketing; company orientations toward the marketplace; scanning the micro and macro environment; segmenting, targeting, and positioning; product, services, and branding; pricing; advertising, sales promotion, and public relations; marketing channels and supply chain management; and marketing in Bangladesh, including BSTI, EPB, EPZ, and the stock exchange.

What does Part II of the Marketing syllabus cover?

Part II (100 marks) covers integrated marketing communications; personal selling and direct marketing; company and marketing strategy; creating competitive advantages; developing new market offerings; designing global market offerings; and managing retailing, wholesaling, and market logistics.

In what language is this practice bank?

Official BCS written papers may be answered in Bangla or English as permitted for the sitting. This bank is an original English-language MCQ study adaptation of the Marketing syllabus, not an official BPSC paper or translation.