THE PROCEDURE

• Principles of Business Administration Events consist of two major parts: a comprehensive exam and a content interview with a business executive. A second content interview will be given to finalists. The comprehensive exam items and the content interview situations are selected from a list of performance indicators identified in the National Curriculum Standards for Business Administration developed by MBAResearch for the States’ Career Cluster Project and validated by industry representatives.

• The participant will be given a 100-question, multiple-choice, comprehensive exam.
• The participant will be given a written assignment to review. In the content interview the student is asked to explain or demonstrate mastery of a selected group of performance indicators in an interview with an industry representative.
Note: A change for 2016-2017. The Principles of Business Administration Events performance element will move from a content interview format to a business situation. Rather than the interaction always being an interview situation, participants will now have opportunities to interact with judges in different roles.
• In the content interview portion of the event, participants must accomplish a task by translating what they have learned into effective, efficient and spontaneous action.
• A list of four performance indicators specific to the assignment is included in the participant’s instructions. These are distinct tasks the participant must accomplish during the interview. The judge will evaluate the participant’s performance on these tasks and on follow-up questions.
• Participants will have 10 minutes to review the assignment and to develop a professional approach to the interview. Participants may use notes made during the preparation time during the interview.
• Up to 10 minutes are then allowed for the participant to interact with a competent judge and explain
the designated concepts. The judge is a qualified business executive. Following the interview, the judge evaluates the participant’s responses and records the results on an evaluation form developed especially for each content interview event.
• Participants may not bring printed reference materials, visual aids, etc., to the competitive event.
• Participants may not pass material of any kind to the judge.
• If any of these rules are violated, the adult assistant must be notified by the judge.
• The maximum score for the evaluation is 100 points. The presentation will be weighed at twice (2 times) the value of the exam score.