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Personalised Feedback Sheet for IGCSE Section 1 Types and Components of Computers

Name: Matthew Forde


Target grade:
Score on this assessment: 27/58
Grade for this assessment: E

General feedback/class needs:
On the plus side, most of you understood what hardware and software is and could identify
examples of each. Also, most of you managed to do well with a bit of common sense on the
true/false questions.
However, overall performance in this test by the whole class was poor. Basic knowledge was lacking
and it was painfully evident that most students had not prepared or revised properly for this test.
Worst of all, students were not even reading questions carefully and provided poor answers which
had nothing to do with the question.
Common issues:
USB is NOT a storage device. In fact the answer USB is useless in any question, it means
Universal Serial Bus, and there are countless devices that use it. You must specify WHAT USB device,
A USB Memory stick for example, otherwise your answer is meaningless.
RAM and ROM clearly many students had not learned the definitions, were confused as to the
meaning of the word Volatile and could not provide adequate descriptions as to what each does and
is for.
Operating Systems Students could not explain what it does, worse, virtually no one understood the
advantages and disadvantages of GUIs and CLIs, despite this being clearly written in your notes.
Reading the question countless marks were lost due to students not reading a question carefully
and giving a totally irrelevant answer.
Your personal targets (to be filled in during the lesson):
1. To revise Operating Systems and learn at least 3 key tasks an operating system is responsible
for carrying out
2. To ensure I always read the question carefully and double check that my answer is relevant
to the question
3. To ensure my work is completed to a high enough standard that it is accurate and I am able
to revise from it effectively
Review: Q15 (Which is the odd one out: Laptop, Mainframe, Desktop, Netbook) was
correct because I knew that laptops are the near same as notebooks and a desktop and
mainframe isnt.
Q16 (What does PDA stand for?) I nearly got this right I had put personal desktop access
instead of personal digital assistant.
Q12 (Give one disadvantage of a GUI) I hardly put the correct answer the correct one was
takes up a lot of space in memory or storage. I had put there is a lot of problems like it
wouldnt work well.


Challenge/Extension
You will have been allocated an exam question to further your knowledge or help you to overcome a
misconception. Copy out the question here in full and answer it.
DESCRIBE FOUR FEATURES OF R.O.M:
1) it is called random access memory
2) its a class of storage
3)

DESCRIBE THREE DRWABACKS OF USING COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (CLI) OPERATINMG SYSTEM
1)

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