[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam post mortem

[Mark Kelly]

Thanks for the kind words, Ross.

I'm fighting the temptation to play merrily with terms like "evacuate" 
and "bowel movement".

hehehehe.  Better send before I lose the battle...

Regards
Mark

Ross Algie wrote:
> Agreed.
> Perhaps ICT specialists aren't too literate? 
> And who would NOT use named ranges in Excel?
> And; I believe your wonderfully resourceful website lampoons the use of If
> functions. They have their place, but they're NOT the be all and end all of
> spreadsheet design.
> Overall, not a bad examination paper albeit with poor word use (evacuate- a
> synonym for bowel movement?] and sentence structure.
> Cheers & good luck for our clients who were confronted with this paper.
> [PERT Charts?]
> Ross Algie
> Mooroopna Secondary College
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 6:46 PM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam post mortem
> 
> http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/vceit/postmortems/2009ita/index.htm
> 
> * Too easy.
> * Really bad grammar.
> 
> * Really amateur IT usage:
>    - using spreadsheets (and presumably mail merge) for printing 
> individual delivery slips?
>    - Using $column$row cell referencing instead of cell/range naming?
> 
> * Repetitive: test data and IF constructs appear more than once.
> 
> Hmphh.
> 

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Why do people mis-spell 'grammar' and mispronounce 'pronuniciation'?