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AQA A2 ICT5 - Information: Policy, Strategy & Systems


Stuff for ICT5
- Links and resources organised by topic. This is just some of the stuff I've found useful for researching and teaching AQA 6521 ICT5 which you *might* also find useful. AFAIK none of it is endorsed by AQA in any way so you should always refer back to the Official AQA website and the current 6521 specification before taking anything you find here too seriously. I've kind of whacked some of this together a bit hastily so if you find any missing links/files (apart from the blindingly obvious gaps!) drop me an email

Books and stuff to buy


A2 Level Books



Widely used as the standard text for A level ICT
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Diagrams

An excellent resource for last minute revision
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Student text written for the AQA specification. Much better than their AS book!!!
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Photocopiable A2 notes supplied on CD
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ICT5 Topics

Use the topic list below to find notes, links, presentations and practice questions to help with your assignments, lesson planning, or revision for individual ICT5 topics.

14.1

Policy and Strategy Issues
 

14.2

Software
 

14.3

Databases Management Concepts
 

14.4

Communication and Information Systems
 

14.5

Networks
 

14.6

Human/Computer Interaction
 

17.7

Human/Computer Interface
 

14.8

Software Development
 

14.9

Software Reliability
 

14.10

Portability of Data
 

 

 


ICT5 Assessment/Exams

Two hour exam. Short answer questions PLUS essay! Arghhhhh!!!

Next exam
Tuesday 20 June 2006 AM
 

 
ICT5 Useful Official AQA Stuff

The official AQA 5521/6521 page containing a number of useful documents can be found here Highlights for ICT5 include:

AQA past papers
Past papers and mark schemes. Not as useful as the Psionica database they shamefully closed but... the next best thing.

Examiners' Reports
It's very useful when preparing your revision and practising exam technique to know exactly what the examiner was/is looking for. If you read nothing else read these!

ICT5 Online Resources

General resources for ICT5. Specifications change so get a copy of the current specification here and refer to it when using any of these documents.

A2 Revision Guide
A2 ICT Revision Guide from the KJS. Use this with a good textbook and the links on the left to plan your revision. This booklet also covers ICT4. ICT5 starts on page 15
 
Teach-ICT.com
Links to ICT5 resources sorted by topic. Teachers should take the time to explore the rest of this site as there's some VERY useful stuff in the OCR section if you do a bit of x-referencing.
 
ICT5 Terminology
Key words/phrases and what they mean. At this level you should be making use of language which shows an examiner you understand the question set.
 
ICT5 Checklist
Revision checklist from Kesgrave High School. If you don't understand something on the list you need to talk to your teacher!
 
ICT5 Scheme of Work
For teechas really. Students might find it useful to tick off the stuff they know. It's got some useful past paper questions in it as well.
 
ICT5 Textbook
This very cool ICT5 textbook is great for last minute revision. I don't remember where this came from so if you're the author let me know.
 
ICT5 Notes
Website thingy from Antonine Education (I don't know what Antonine means either!) is largely based on the Heathcote textbook but has some good end of unit test questions for each section.

Key to resources:
 
PowerPoint presentation
Word file
Web page
Macromedia Flash
Pdf file

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