OPTIONAL GCSE COURSE DELIVERY: GCSE Computing is taught in 5 lessons per fortnight over 2 years.
COURSE CONTENT. All Students will study the following units: Unit 1: Computer systems and programming. This unit covers the knowledge about computer systems on which the exam will be based.
Unit 2: Practical Investigation. An investigative computing task involving research, technical understanding, analysis of problem, historical perspective, and use of technical writing skills.
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Unit 3: Programming Project. This involves understanding programming techniques, being able to design a coded solution, creating a coded solution and testing the solution.
Qualification: 1 GCSE Examination Board: OCR Course No: J275
ASSESSMENT Unit 1: Written exam (90 minutes) Unit 2: Controlled Assessment (20 hours) in the ICT classroom. Unit 3: Controlled Assessment (20 hours ) in the ICT classroom. The exam is weighted 40% and the controlled assessments 30% each. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. The programming software that the students will use is Python.
FURTHER OPPORTUNITIES A Level Computer Science BTEC Information Technology Extended Diploma Level 3. Apprenticeships/work
Please note that the students who opt to study this course will also undertake the BTEC ICT Core course as well.
What other students say about this course:
For further information about the GCSE Computing course please see Mrs L Baker
“ICT is different to other subjects because it is all practical work—it’s nice to have a change from theory lessons.” “Everyone needs ICT for a lot of things every day.”