[Year 12 IPM] Exam Post Mortem now online

[Bane, Janet A]

Great job, as usual Mark.  I only have a couple of queries -  Question 3 SA asked for kids to " Select two of the three storage mediums listed below and identify one limitation and one capability, and explain the method by which data is recorded for each. (6 marks)"  - lots of my kids thought they had to say the method by which data is recorded by the user.  (ie, put your USB flash drive into the USB port, open your folder/file, drag your files across to removable storage drive, or copy and paste), rather than how the device actually records it.  Another case of ambiguous wording!
 
Secondly Q16 MC - the one about strategic or tactical - 12 months seems to be a viable time frame for tactical decisions, butI guess it depends on high how up the food chain the "marketing manager" is - senior manager?  middle manager?  It doesn't actually say.
 
Question 18 MC - the one about putting someone else's song on the website - clearly its illegal, but I think the answer could be D given that you aren't supposed to use other's works without permission.  Isn't that what the Copyright Amendement Digital Agenda Act says?  
 
Question 8 Short answer - obviously option 1 as it actually has a DVD burner, the other one doesn't.
 
Question 9 SA - I think the paper, although generally fair, did display a certain bias towards students who had studied databases rather than spreadsheets.  Question 9 is an example of this - whilst my students knew about range checks, most of them also gave IF statements as another way of checking. I hope this answer would be considered acceptable.   Data type checks (although mentioned by me several times) obviously did not penetrate the permeable layer as they didn't actually do any in class.  It was also handy to have done databases for Questions 2 SA and Q4 SA, although obviously common sense should prevail and the answer is logical if they think about it!
 
Enjoyed your post mortem, thanks!
 
Janet Bane
Patterson River SC
 

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