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    Secondary Research (Desk Research)

    What Secondary Research (Desk Research) means in Business GCSE, as defined for OCR.

    Definition of Secondary Research (Desk Research)

    The use of existing information that has already been collected by someone else.
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    Using Secondary Research (Desk Research) in the exam

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