Unit title and Description
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Assessment and Duration
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Weighting
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Unit B061: ICT in today’s world: Learners study a range of ICT systems, as used in the home, at school and in society. Learners need to be aware of current and emerging technologies and their impact on themselves and others.
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1 hour - 60 marks
Written paper or computer-based test
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20%
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Unit B062: Practical applications in ICT: Learners will select from a range of set tasks which will enable them to demonstrate their practical ICT ability.
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Controlled assessment - 60 marks.
Learners choose one task
It is recommended that up to 8 hours are spent on research and up to 12 hours on producing the final piece of work.
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30%
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Unit B063: ICT in context: Learners study a range of ICT systems, components, technologies and applications. The question paper will be based on pre-release material, relating to specified organisation(s) and its/their use of ICT.
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1 hour - 60 marks
Written paper or a computer-based test – based on pre-release material
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20% |
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Unit B064: Creative use of ICT: Learners study a range of creative software applications in order to create a solution to a given problem. They should also be aware of how to analyse the problem as well as designing, developing, testing and evaluating a solution to the problem. Learners should be able to either develop a website, a presentation or a computer game.
OR
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Controlled assessment - 60 marks
Learners choose one task
It is recommended that up to 8 hours are spent on research and up to 12 hours on producing the final piece of work.
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30% |
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Unit B065: Coding a solution: There will be a scenario set by OCR within which learners should be able to identify a potential coded solution to a problem using basic programming techniques. The scenario will be sufficiently open to allow a variety of viable solutions.
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Controlled assessment - 60 marks
Learners choose one task
It is recommended that up to 8 hours are spent on research and up to 12 hours on producing the final piece of work.
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30% |