1. ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
BACHELOR OF VOCATION
1ST
YEAR SEMESTER II
EXTERNAL PRACTICALS VIVA
The external Viva Practicles will be held on 13 March 2015. Below given subjects will be
covered.
Subject Topic
Max.
Marks
Store Security
Accidental Measures
50Shrinkage & Barcode
Health & Safety
Visual
Merchandising
Store Layout
50Types of Merchandise Display
Elements and Types of VM display
Demo Styles
Demonstration of products & Customer
Interaction
50Types of Characteristics of Customers
Selling Process : Door to Door process
within the store
The flow of the report and process is as given below.
a) Select one store of your choice and visit for a study, observation and research.
b) Prepare a power point presentation file with white background and use Times
Roman or Arial font with limited usage of downloaded pictures.(One report for all
three subjects – 2 slides in a page).
c) Prepare a word document by transferring slides from the above presentation.
d) Framework of the presentation is given below
Cover page
Contents
Acknowledgement
Executive Summary
Findings on observations and research
Suggestions & Recommendations
Source of Information
e) Submit the hard copies on 10th prior March 2015 to the viva date

2. Details of awarding marks is given below.
Subject Topic
Max.
Marks
Store Security
Accidental Measures 10
Shrinkage & Barcode 10
Health & Safety 10
Power point presentation 10
Word document report 10
Visual
Merchandising
Store Layout 10
Types of Merchandise Display 10
Elements and Types of VM display 10
Power point presentation 10
Word document report 10
Demo Styles
Demonstration of products & Customer Interaction 10
Types of Characteristics of Customers 10
Selling Process : Door to Door process 10
Power point presentation 10
Word document report 10
INTERNALS FOR RETAIL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The assignments are given below for ready reference.
Assignment 1 : Find out the Mission, Vision and Values of five Retailers and list them with your
unique observations
Assignment 2 Visit a store or Mall of your choice and observe the store environment. Bring out
the points that affect the Image of that store
Assignment 3 You are an entrepreneur now. To start a Retail Business what would be your
strategic plan that would translate into store operations. Prepare in detail.
Details of awarding marks is given below.
RETAIL BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT
IA
Assignment
1
Assignment
2
Assignment
3
Discipline &
Behavior
Total
Roll No.
Student
Name 15 5 5 10 5 40

3. Example of Cover page is as given:
ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
BACHELOR OF VOCATION
PRACTICALS VIVA ON STORE SECURITY, VISUAL
MERCHANDISING AND DEMO STYLES
Submitted to Suresh sir and Venkatesh sir
Name ………………………………
Roll No. ……………………………
Semester…………………………..
Year ……………………………….