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ICT GCSE exam

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coribells · 30/12/2017 10:23

My son will be sitting one of ICT GCSE exams on the 9th of January. I think this exam is worth 25% of over all mark. He missed the exam last year for personal reasons, I am helping him prepare. The paper gives a scenario ( which they already have ) around a company using CCTV to monitor employees and prevent theft, students have been given a number of areas that should focus there study on i.e
Hardware devices used in CCTV
How images collected by CCTV system maybe stored for retreival
Different methods of creating a computer network for CCTV and the benefits and drawbacks of these methods
Moral and ethical issues to do with the use of CCTV
Can anyone help me by pointing me in the right direction for the research, I have googled but usually end up on security companies web page. TIA

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Allthebestnamesareused · 30/12/2017 20:05

Your son will have followed a course, have been taught what he needs to know to do this exam and should be doing this work himself not you!! It is his gcse not yours. Why are you enabling what is in effect cheating?

MongerTruffle · 30/12/2017 20:13

Following on from what a PP said:

One of the JCQ information posters for candidates says this:

"If you receive help and guidance from someone other than your teacher, you must tell your teacher who will then record the nature of the assistance given to you.
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Your parent/carer may provide you with access to resource materials and discuss your coursework with you. However, they must not give you direct advice on what should and should not be included.
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Plagiarism involves taking someone else’s words, thoughts or ideas and trying to pass them off as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken very seriously.
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REMEMBER - IT'S YOUR QUALIFICATION SO IT NEEDS TO BE YOUR OWN WORK"

GiraffesMum · 30/12/2017 20:57

Your son needs to look through all his notes for R001 and pay particular attention to anything that could be linked to the scenario. There are some specific revision cards here:

getrevising.co.uk/revision-cards/r001-january-2018-notes

You can look at the kinds of questions that might be asked by looking at these papers mocked up by other teachers and shared on tes (free to download if you create a login). They are linking the scenario to the r001 theory.

www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cambridge-nationals-unit-01-securitechtv-scenario-january-2018-exam-11768597

www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cambridge-nationals-unit-01-r001-mock-exam-papers-6375761

If you don’t have good notes for R001, googling ‘r001 revision’ brings up lots of options. Good luck

Ps to the other posters - this isn’t coursework. This is pre-release for an exam and anyone can help you revise for this.

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coribells · 30/12/2017 21:31

My son has some difficulties with school , I am supporting him to find the right resources in order to revise. Its not cheating its parenting.

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coribells · 30/12/2017 21:34

Thankyou very much GIrraffesmum, this is the kind of information I am looking for.

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LIZS · 30/12/2017 21:36

But you need to be very careful in not crossing the line in helping him prepare any notes allowed during a controlled assessment. If he has any recognised difficulties he should have appropriate access arrangements in place to mitigate this.

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coribells · 30/12/2017 21:41

They are not notes that will be taken into the assessment , I am looking for notes that will help me to help him revise. He does not have 'recognised' difficulties as such ,

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CauliflowerSqueeze · 31/12/2017 00:40

This is exactly the reason coursework is now discontinued in practically every subject.

lljkk · 31/12/2017 16:41

Exam or controlled assessment? I don't understand how someone knows what is on the exam ahead of time.

DS is doing ICT GCSE, too.

PersianCatLady · 31/12/2017 16:55

Part of getting a good Mark is finding your own research.

I think you came here hoping to get good resources that others had found, I Hope for your sons sake that nobody is silly enough to just give them to you.

sashh · 01/01/2018 09:51

I would expect a year 7 child to know the first 2, if your child doesn't then something is badly wrong.

PersianCatLady · 01/01/2018 09:52

You could try getting your son to do different combinations of Google searches.

catslife · 01/01/2018 16:34

Am not sure if an exam with a prelease article really counts as an independent exam? Surely they will be preparing for this under controlled conditions in class time?
But you really do need to be very careful. There has been a recent and very well publicised problem with computer science, so all assessments for ICT and computing will be under increased scrutiny this year. See link www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/11/27/coursework-computer-science-gcse-set-dropped-amid-fears-widespread/

lljkk · 01/01/2018 16:35

ha! DS is doing GCSE IcT, predicted B, and could only think of "camera" for the first one.

PersianCatLady · 02/01/2018 12:04

All assessments for ICT and computing will be under increased scrutiny this year
Some exam boards have scrapped the NEA element altogether after solutions were posted online.

Any child who had spent time preparing but not cheating must feel gutted about this.

PersianCatLady · 02/01/2018 12:08

Hardware devices used in CCTV
Aside from cameras (from lljkk) what else does a CCTV system have to make it function in terms of hardware?

How images collected by CCTV system maybe stored for retrieval
What does a CCTV system collect, is it just photos? What happens to them? How can they be used in the case of (for example) shoplifting from a shop?

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