[Year 12 IPM] Exam Post Mortem now online

[Mark Scott]

Excellent point about Q3.

 

I assumed the same as you and I'm not sure that Mark's interpretation is
the correct one. 

 

Sorry Mark but not sure that what you describe is a "method of recording
data"

 

Mark Scott

Luther College

 

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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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My annual whinge is now online at

http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/it/ipmnotes/exam/2005exam/index.htm

Feel free to carp, bicker and protest.

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Mark Kelly
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