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paullong.net Training
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Agenda
12:00
Discussion Questions with AS Group
13:00
Break
13:10
Break
15:30
Finish
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Aims of today
Understand how to answer different types of exam
questions
• know what key words mean
• Know how to respond to different styles of question
Have an insight into what examiners are looking for
Improve essay writing technique
Revise some popular exam topics
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Who am I? Who are you?
Paul Long
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Text book author
Former principal examiner/moderator
ICT Teacher of 15 years
Now self-employed
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Resources for schools
Revision sessions
Training for teachers
Freelance training
Home teaching for James Brindley School
• Two interesting things about me:
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Christian at Real Life Church
Married to Catherine
You
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• One thing that’s interesting about you
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Resources to help you
www.ocrict.com
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(www.paullong.net/ocr)
G063 Online Text Book
G063 Presentations
G063 Exam frameworks and grids
AS resources
http://cnettv.cnet.com/
www.bbc.co.uk/click
follow @paullongnet
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Exciting or revising?
Revision is not fun
We’ve all been there
Today you will learn to be SMART
• but we don’t have time for lots of fun 
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How to ace your exams by
spending less time revising!
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Organising your material
Plan your time and the topics
Don’t rewrite everything
Put post-it notes everywhere
• demote them!
REDUCE YOUR REVISION
Know it – done
? Not sure – need to revise
 What? – need to learn again
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Exam paper tips
See hand out
Read questions and instructions carefully
Don’t panic
Look at marks available
Avoid ‘easier’, ‘faster’, ‘more efficient’, ‘better’
Give full answers
Include extra information if time
Give examples related to the scenario
Draw diagrams if appropriate
NEVER leave answers blank unless you run out of time
Revise and prepare
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Starter
Complete this quick quiz
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G063 exam paper
2 hours (120 marks)
• 1 minute per mark
Section A (40 marks)
• around 7 short questions
• uses style of the AS paper
• approximately 25 minutes
Section B (80 marks)
• mainly essay-style questions
• apply skills to scenarios
• approximately 1 hour 35
minutes
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Synoptic questions
• covering AS Level
• not restricted to
terminology from AS Level
Will include a discussion
question at the end
• and probably a long-answer
explain question
NOT in order of easy to hard
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A2 Revision - MENU
Revision
Games
Revision
Tasks
Characteristic
Distribute
Databases
Verbal
Tennis
Gantt
Describe
Purpose
Maintenance
& Changeover
Hot Seat
CPA
Explain
Use
Networks
Spot the Mistake
(networks)
Flow Chart
Evaluate
Limitation
Spot the Mistake
(operating systems)
DFD
Justify
Advantages &
Disadvantages
Spot the Mistake
(Blank)
Process
Venn
Diagrams
ERD
Question
Styles
Key words
Identify
Discuss
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Diagramming
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Hierarchy
Identify
State
Give
Describe
Compare
Explain
Justify
Evaluate
Discuss
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Identify, state, give
List your knowledge
Sentences, statements or single words
One mark per point made
Individual exercises:
1. Identify three methods of database distribution [3]
2. For each of the symptoms below, state the health problem and
state the possible cause:
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b)
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chronic pain experienced in the arms, shoulder or back [2]
blood clot found in the leg [2]
pressure on the median nerve in the wrist producing numbness in the
hand [2] Q14 June 2012
3. Give four reasons why batch processing is used to process
employees’ salaries. [4] Q3b June 2012
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Sample papers - identify
G063 June 2011
• 1 – design specification
• 3 – operating systems
• 14a – expert systems
Group exercise
Mark each of these answers on the 3 scripts
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what is right/wrong with each answer
identify any shortcomings for each answer
make corrections to answers
come up with additional answers
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send out one ‘negotiator’ to ‘trade’ more answers
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Key word: characteristic
Distinguishing part, function or feature of a system
NOT uses
Identify three characteristics of a wide area network
(WAN). [3] Q2a Jan 10
• connected devices are geographically remote
• uses an external communication system / connected by
third-party cables
• requires a router
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Characteristics
Whole group exercise
Identify four characteristics of a satellite navigation
system. [4]
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Spot the mistake - networks
ADSL lines have contention ratios 
Satellites require line of sight 
Infrared does not require line of sight
Leased lines do not have contention ratios 
4G has a higher bandwidth than satellite 
Leased lines have a higher bandwidth than 4G
Fibre optic cables suffer less interference than copper
cables
Unshielded Twisted Pair cables have a maximum length of
1000m
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Spot the mistake – operating systems
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Interactive processing requires user interaction
Batch processing requires user interaction
Real-time processing requires user interaction
Single-user operating systems can only be used by one user at
once
Multi-user operating systems can run many tasks at once
Multi-tasking operating systems can run many tasks at once
An operating system manages the hardware on a computer
An operating system allocates memory to tasks
An operating system is a Graphical User Interface
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Key word: use
How a system can be used
What it can be used for
EXAMPLES
Identify three uses of an expert system.
• mobile phone problem diagnosis
• car engine fault diagnosis
• medical condition diagnosis
Alternative wording:
• “Identify three ways an expert system could be used”
Whole group exercise
Give four uses of an extranet for a school. [4]
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Describe
One mark per description
• Describe rapid application development (RAD). [2] Q1 Jun 12
• Describe how interactive processing could be used to prevent the
double booking of theatre tickets. [2] Q1 Jun 12
OR two marks per description
• Describe three applications of an expert system. [6] Q8 Jun 12
OR banded response
• Describe the services available to the individual that are offered
by digital television networks. [6] Q6 Jun 12
If no number of responses is specified
• give more answers than you think are required
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eg 3 full descriptions for 4 marks
Describe using examples
• must be related to scenario
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Describe – banded response
Max marks:
• Three descriptions
• Two descriptions
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will need to include more information or example
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Describe – how to answer
Describe the role of a personnel system in a company. [4]
Q1a Jan 11
Identify Points
Describe
Example
Stores employee
contact details
including next of kin
details
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mobile
phone number of spouse in case
employee is injured at work.
Stores attendance
details
including when each
so that salaries can be calculated correctly
employee was at work and absences monitored
and reasons for
absence
Try answering the describe questions on your hand out
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