GCSE ICT Edexcel 2016

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Reply 100

worksmartnothard

I actually didn't find it that hard! I'm just glad our six markers were decent!

Reply 101

Serkan Marasli

Original post by worksmartnothard

I actually didn't find it that hard! I'm just glad our six markers were decent!

The 6 markers were soooo easy but i made so many silly mistakes beforehand. For example, 3 implications of the lack of access to ICT:
I wrote, Affordability, Lack of infrastructure and government restrictions when these are causes :frown:

but overall... i think the grade boundary should be somewhere around 50 for an A* seeing that this paper was harder compared to the past papers.

Reply 102

GCSEICT

Make a petition of GCSE ICT EDEXCEL LOWER THE GRADE BOUNDARIES! https://www.change.org/

Reply 103

Serkan Marasli

Original post by Mo128

What is a device that is used to connect the media player to the WiFi network?

Router

Reply 104

GCSEICT

Original post by Serkan Marasli

Router

I put network interface card will I still get the mark?

Reply 105

guy321

Original post by GCSEICT

I put network interface card will I still get the mark?

Yeah I also put wireless network interface card and then I put a wireless dongle would be required if the media station did not possess a network interface card.

Mark or not?

Reply 106

GCSEICT

Somebody start a petition to lower the grade boundaries!

Reply 107

jacob2000

Original post by GCSEICT

Somebody start a petition to lower the grade boundaries!

they're already low it's only around 50 marks for an A*

Reply 108

lily628

Original post by GCSEICT

Somebody start a petition to lower the grade boundaries!

dw, they are already usually so low (like 53/80 for an A*)

Reply 109

worksmartnothard

Original post by GCSEICT

I put network interface card will I still get the mark?

Original post by guy321

Yeah I also put wireless network interface card and then I put a wireless dongle would be required if the media station did not possess a network interface card.

Mark or not?

My understanding of ICT is incredibly poor so correct me if I'm wrong but I thought a NIC was needed to connect the device to the local area network??

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Reply 110

worksmartnothard

Original post by Serkan Marasli

but overall... i think the grade boundary should be somewhere around 50 for an A* seeing that this paper was harder compared to the past papers.

Oh well, that's only a 3 possible marks and like people have said, the grade boundaries are incredibly low! No need to worry!

Reply 111

batt_mellamy

Original post by history fanatic

How did you all find it?

I felt like I didn't have much to say about the last 6 marker so I just rambled on about people being rejected job offers and a whole bunch of stuff like that haha. There were loads of crossing boxes so I was really happy about that :smile:

And the questions asking about defining the World Wide Web and the Internet kinda threw me off because I hadn't memorized any proper definitions so I just wrote whatever I thought made sense. Overall though I'm quite satisfied, I expected it to be really difficult but it wasn't super challenging.
What about you guys?

Oh and did anybody else end up finishing the exam really early? 1 hour and half was quite a lot of time tbh hahah

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I found it OK! What threw me is the fact that the first question (the media station or whatever) wasn't relevant to ANYTHING in the syllabus guide by edexcel! The last 6 marker was weird worded but it was easy enough once you knew what it was asking for. Overall, fairly satisfied I did well and now hope it's enough to get me a good grade! :biggrin:

Reply 112

batt_mellamy

Original post by Serkan Marasli

Router

wifi dongle? i was basing my knowledge off the amazon fire box and nowtv?

Reply 113

KieranPRTL

I didn't find that paper that hard, I would say that I probably got midway between the 40-50 marks category, which I think is alright considering that we hadn't learnt any theory before 2 weeks ago.
How do you think this compares to last years exam?