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COMPUTER STUDIES– PRACTICAL-ANSWERS
Question 1 (MS Word – Birthday Calendar) [15 marks]
Using Figure 1 as a guide, perform the following steps:
(a) Design one-month calendar to indicate the Date and Month of your birth:
- Insert Table:
Go to Insert > Table.
Create a 7-column table to represent days of the week (M, T, W, T, F, S, S).
Fill in the calendar dates appropriately for your birth month.
(b) Use WordArt to type the title “My Birthday Calendar”:
Insert > WordArt, choose a style.
Type “My Birthday Calendar”, set font size 18.
(c) Format the text on WordArt with text effect/transform/stop:
Select the WordArt, go to Format > Text Effects, choose Transform or add Shadow/Glow/Reflection.
(d) Insert any ClipArt or image of your choice to represent your picture:
Insert > Pictures or ClipArt.
Choose an image or icon to represent yourself.
(e) Type the Month and Year of your birth using:
Font: Arial Rounded MT Bold
Font size: 30 pt
(f) Insert calendar using Quick Tables:
Insert > Table > Quick Tables, choose Calendar, and edit to match your birth month/year.
(g) Asterisk or colour the day of your birth:
Highlight your birth date in the calendar.
Use Font Color or add an asterisk *.
(h) Type your full name and index number below the calendar:
Delete the name/index in the sample and replace with your own (e.g., Your Name 123456789).
(i) Save your work:
Use your index number as the file name.
Save in the specified folder on the desktop.
(j) Print and submit to Supervisor.
Question 2 (MS PowerPoint – Geopolitical Zones)
Using Microsoft PowerPoint, perform the following:
(a) Create six slides using Title and Content layout:
- Apply different Design Themes to each slide.
- Each slide should cover one geopolitical zone as follows:
Slide 1: North Central
Benue State
Kogi State
Kwara State
Nasarawa State
Niger State
Plateau State
FCT (Abuja)
Slide 2: North East
Adamawa State
Bauchi State
Borno State
Gombe State
Taraba State
Yobe State
Slide 3: North West
Kaduna State
Kano State
Katsina State
Kebbi State
Jigawa State
Sokoto State
Zamfara State
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COMPUTER STUDIES 3
Instructions to Schools and Supervisors
(1)
Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
(a) The timetable allows for the examination to be taken in two sets. Where a school is presenting candidates for the second set, the supervisor must ensure that the work from the first set is permanently deleted from the hard drive including the recycle bin.
(b) Additional 5 minutes should be given to candidates at the end of the examination to print out their finished/unfinished solutions.
(c) Invigilators should pick up candidates’ hard copies from the printers and hand over to the candidates to avoid overcrowding around the printer.
(d) Candidates are to submit their printouts to the supervisor themselves.
(e) The candidates’ printout should be signed by the supervisor.
(f) Schools should ensure that no candidate brings in any storage media (e.g. flash drive, compact disk, etc) into the examination hall.
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(2)
HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIRED
(2)The number of computers provided for the examination should be at least half the number of candidates who enter for the examination. For instance:
(a) a school presenting 20 candidates must have at least 10 computers;
(b) a school presenting 55 candidates must have at least 28 computers.
(3)The computers should be connected to a local area network.
(4)One high performance printer should be connected to at most 10 computers (i.e. ratio of printer to computers is 1:10).
(5)The Operating System for the computers should be Windows 7 or higher version.
(6)The following application packages should be installed on each computer:
(a) MS Word 2007 or higher;
(b) MS Excel 2007 or higher;
(c) MS Access 2007 or higher;
(d) MS PowerPoint 2007 or higher;
(e) CorelDraw.
(7)Schools are encouraged to provide additional PCs on standby in case of equipment failure.
(8)If a candidate damages any of the equipment, the matter should be rectified and a note made on the Report Form.
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(3)
ASSISTANCE TO CANDIDATES
9. The purpose of the practical Computer Studies test is to find out whether candidates can carry out simple practical work themselves.
The Examiner is aware that a candidate sometimes may not be able to show his/her practical ability owing to his/her failure to understand some points in the theory of an experiment. If the Examiner is present in the laboratory/workshop, he should be prepared to give such a candidate a hint to enable him/her get on with the experiment. In order to overcome this difficulty, you are asked to cooperate with the Examiner to the extent of being ready to give (or to allow the Computer Studies teacher to give) a hint to candidates who is unable to proceed.
10. The following regulations must be strictly adhered to.
(a) No hint may be announced to the candidates as a whole.
(b) A candidate who is unable to proceed and requires assistance must come up to you and state his/her difficulty. The candidate should be told that the Examiner will be informed of any assistance given in this way.
(c) A note must be made, in the Report Form, of any assistance given to any candidate, with the name and index number of the candidate.
11. It is suggested that the following announcement be made to the candidates:
“The Examiner does not want you to waste your time through inability to proceed with the practicals. Therefore, any candidate, who is unable to proceed with a practical test after he/she has spent 15 minutes on it, may come to me and ask for help. I shall inform the Examiner any help be given in this way, and some marks may be lost for the help received.
You may ask me for any additional equipment which you think would improve the accuracy of your work, and you should state on your script how you used such equipment.”
SUPERVISOR’S REPORT
(12)Supervisor’s Report Forms are provided separately, in which you are required to:
(a) supply detailed information about the equipment where necessary;
(b) report on any particular difficulties experienced by any candidate, especially if the Examiner would be unable to discover these from the written answers;
(c) report on any help given to any candidate under the regulations explained in 10;
(d) report on any damage of equipment (see 8).
(13)The candidates should be instructed not to write out any detailed description of the equipment. Instead you or the teacher responsible are required to give on the Report Form a brief description of the equipment supplied, mentioning any points which are likely to be of importance to the Examiner in marking the answers.
(14)The Report Form should be signed by the Supervisor and by the person responsible for preparing the equipment.
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