AS WJEC Computing 1101/01 CG1 - 1st June AM 2015 [EXAM DISCUSSION THREAD]

What are the database management systems?

This is quite a general question but did anyone else find learning this course extremely boring?

That pretty much describes my experience learning the course. Bad teaching made the course even less enjoyable than it already was.
What college/school do you study at?

So it's likely that processing types will come up? What is that? I feel like I should know considering the exam's tomorrow.

Oldham Sith Form College, I'm a resit student so I've had 2 years with a terrible teacher and have had to teach myself most of the course. We haven't learned the last quarter of CG3 as he said we used that theory time for a coursework extension. That was the couple of weeks before easter. On the schedule of work the stuff we didn't learn was supposed to be covered after easter, mainly the 4 weeks before we broke up. What he did instead of teaching us in those last 4 weeks was make us revise CG3.1,3.2,3.3. The stuff we did in September and had already committed to memory while he sat on his arse at his computer doing absolutely nothing.

He's been a terrible teacher and quite a number of us tried to get him fired, he wasn't because apparently the college is struggling for money and there's absolutely nobody that could teach computing around.

I wish I hadn't picked it. I would have got better grades in a different subject and would have had a much easier time getting into university.

Is your teacher called Richard by any chance?

Exactly, I take it you're OSFC too

Haha, nope. I have a friend who is doing AS Computing in OSFC and he always goes on about how bad he is and how he relies on you to learn everything yourself. Feels for you XD.

Haha, I'm not surprised you've heard about him then! I had so many problems with him last year, I walked out of the class on more than one occasion. He looks down on us and he's always right even though he knows nothing about computing really. He can not program, at all. He just stands and reads off the 'TheTeacher' website.

We're set no work for outside of class, he doesn't provide any actual tasks for us to do, our task whenever we did have one was to save the teacher notes from the website to our user area and print them off in our next free period. I think he set us homework once this year, that was over Christmas and he never mentioned that homework again, he didn't even check if we did it.

I'm glad I'm rid of him now and I feel for your friend who has to endure another year of him.

Sorry for derailing the thread guys

Sounds exactly like what my friend says about him . I live like 15 minutes away from OSFC but I'm kinda glad I didn't go there for computing. What are you planning on taking in uni? and good luck for the exam tomorrow.

We could potentially have one on operating systems. Say what is the role, what does it provides though i'm not quite sure if that would be worth all the marks the essay one usually is. Since this is more or less the last time I bet they'll give us 2 sightly lower mark essay questions on topics not previously chosen. Just hope not.

I reckon the final essay will be on methods of changeover, as this hasnt popped up in a while too...

here's a sort of cheat sheet to the questions they usually ask. Its not that good but hope it helps.

What are the specific things which you should know in the area of documentation?

Does anyone know all the definitions for the processing types?

I posted an image earlier but it musn't have submitted properly. You don't really need to know definitions for processing types but here's what they look for in answers.