YEAR 9 EXAM REVISION AREAS

The following the areas that will be tested in the coming examinations;
Databank Unit
- Databases terminologies and database structures
- Application areas of databases and their impacts
- Concerns and issues resulting from using databases
- Possible solutions  problems arising from using databases

Business Quest Unit
-The different information technologies used in businesses
-How those technologies work/function in those areas of applications
-The impacts of using the different business related Information technologies
-Issues and concerns arising from the using the technologies in businesses
-Possible solutions to problems arising from using IT in business

Our Turf Unit
-The different information technologies relating to the management of our environment
-How the technologies are applied within those specific areas
-The impacts of using the different information technologies systems in the different environmental sectors
-Issues and concerns arising from the using the technologies in Environment applications
-Possible solutions to problems arising from using IT in Environment related applications

NB
- Learn how to repond to the following command terms;
      ~Identify
      ~Describe
      ~Explain
      ~Discuss/Evaluate

Design Stage: Our Turf Unit

Activity
You will develop atleast three appropriate designs befitting your product; The designs can be either (a) drawn on an A4 paper or (b) designed using an appropriate software but submitted in hardcopy.

Each of the designs should of very good quality and should be measured against the design specifications with a brief self evaluation of each.

The final design should be fully Justified

Assessment Criteria
0
The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors
given below.
1-2
The student generates one design, and makes some attempt to justify
this against the design specification.
3-4
The student generates a few designs, justifying the choice of one design
and fully evaluating this against the design specification.
5-6
The student generates a range of feasible designs, each evaluated
against the design specification. The student justifies the chosen design
and evaluates it fully and critically against the design specification.