1. Preparing For Your CA

2. Preparing For Your CA
Our focus for the next few weeks will be preparing for your first controlled assessment
All we can say at this stage is that your Investigation is related to operating systems
You must wait 6 weeks to see exactly what tasks the Exam Board have set!
But over the next few weeks, we’ll spend our time preparing you with the skills, attitude and understanding you need to do well

3. Preparing For Your CA 40% 30% 30% Year 10 Year 11 Exam CA CA Theory
Investigation
30% CA
Programming
30% CA

4. Preparing For Your CA
Remember that this first Controlled Assessment is called Practical Investigation
It’s rather unusual and you probably won’t do anything like it in other subjects
You explore a topic supplied by our exam board, OCR, who set a series of tasks for you to tackle
‘Practical investigation’ means some of the tasks are research-based and some are hands-on
So it combines written work & practical work

5. Preparing For Your CA
The good news is that everyone has a great chance of doing well on the Investigation
You don’t need to be a great programmer
Or to have lots of nerdy knowledge
The whole idea is that the Investigation starts from material we’ve covered in A451 Theory but them goes into new areas
So it’s about being motivated & organised
Lots of students actually enjoy doing it!

6. Preparing For Your CA
The Investigation deliberately extends the candidate’s work beyond the topics that are taught in the main course.
The aim is for students to have a stimulating experience.

7. Preparing For Your CA
The Investigation tasks are designed to be open-ended to various degrees.
It is intended that candidates find their own, preferably original, solutions to problems.

8. Preparing For Your CA
For many of the tasks, there are no ‘right answers’
It’s a challenge to students to go beyond the specification they are taught

9. Our Schedule

10. Past Tasks

11. How Your Work Is Marked