Personalised Feedback Sheet for IGCSE Section 7 The uses of ICT

Name: Nancy Sercombe

Target grade: A*
Score on this assessment: 75.76%
Grade for this assessment: B
General feedback/class needs:
This test was basically a general knowledge ICT test. It brought together all the
things youve learned from previous units about sensors, input and output
devices, processing and put them in a real world context for things such as
transaction processing, expert systems, monitoring patients and so on. In reality,
there were no new concepts here, only new applications.
It should be more than clear to you all now, the value of exam question practise.
When you look at the amount of time we spend going over exam questions in
class, and then look at your test you should see that the time spent on those
questions was valuable.
There were few excuses this time around for poor performance being as youd
seen most of the questions during the lessons and it really has now become a
matter of practise makes perfect. If youre still not quite happy with where you
are in terms of progress, the formula is simple the more you practise past
questions, the higher your grade will be.
Most people struggled with the question on stock control this is a bullet point
list answer (and one we did in class) and the question on expert systems.
Your test review:
One question I got completely right was Complete the set of instructions to draw
this shape by filling in the blank spaces this is because I am confident with turtle
and understand it.
One question I achieved some, but not all marks on was OMR, OCR and MICR are
methods of direct data entry. Describe each method, giving an example of an
application where each might be used this is because I didnt fully understand
each of the methods.
One question I did not answer correctly was 10 (a) List four parts of an expert
system this is because I didnt properly revise Expert Systems

Your personal targets:

1. To be able to explain OCR, with an example

2. To practise writing answers in the Point Explanation format, and never to
rely on one word answers unless strictly specified.

3. To revise effectively for each test not just reading notes, but doing

practise questions from lessons or from the websites provided to me by

my teacher

Challenge/Extension
Write out and answer fully questions 3 and 10

Question 3.) A supermarket uses POS terminals. The stock levels in the
supermarket are updated automatically. Describe the steps involved in updating
the stock level of a product when the bar code is read. [5 Marks]
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Barcode gets scanned

Found in the data base
Looks up the number in stock
Number purchased is taken away from the number in stock
Number left in stock is checked against the reorder number
If there is not enough an automatic order will be placed

Question 10.) Expert systems can be used for diagnosis in a range of situations.
(a) List four parts of an expert system [4 Marks]
- User interface
- Knowledge base
- Inference engine
- Rule base
(b) Car mechanics use expert systems to diagnose car faults. Describe how an
expert system diagnoses these faults. [4 Marks]

Answer: The user interface asks questions which are based on previous
answers. The expert system then analyses the data available to it, by
the inference engine comparing the data entered with whats in the
knowledge base and the rule base. Matches are then found from that
data, and from those matches it suggests some possible solutions to
the problem.