General Certificate of Education
Advanced Subsidiary Examination
June 2011
Computing COMP1/AD
Unit 1 Problem Solving, Programming, Data Representation
and Practical Exercise
Advice on using the COMP1 Electronic Answer Document
1 (EAD)Centres may give a copy of this Advice document to candidates at any time, including during
the examination.
The Electronic Answer Document is provided by AQA to centres as a Microsoft
document. Candidates must type their answers to the COMP1 question paper into the EAD
on-screen.
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Taken from Appendix 1 of the Teachers' Notes (COMP1/TN)M/Jun11/COMP1/Advice
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A In advance of the examination
subsequent pages they may use) may be completed in advance of the examination and
saved to the individual candidate’s user area of the secure network. If candidates are
to complete the EAD in this way, the centre is responsible for ensuring that no other
information is typed into the EAD in advance of the examination.
Candidates’ details on the front cover and in the footer of page 2 (and therefore any
– where they are to save the work they do during the examination
– what file format to use
– the name format in which to save their work
– about the role of the Print Monitor
– how to re-size a screen capture (screen dump/screen shot) to ensure the examiner
can read it with ease.
Centres must ensure that candidates know:
but centres are strongly encouraged to ensure that their candidates are familiar with the
EAD before the examination. Candidates are free to practice using
examination.
The COMP1 examination is not a test of candidates’ typing or word processing skills,a copy of it before theB What to do if the EAD fails for any reason
inappropriate places, check whether the margin size on the default printer needs
reducing. The margins used for the original Electronic Answer Document are: Top - 2 cm;
Bottom - 2.5 cm; Left 2 cm; Right - 2 cm.
When printing the Electronic Answer Document, if it appears to have page breaks in
printed out.
If your centre’s word processing software is not compatible with Microsoft
centres should ask candidates to type their answers into a blank document ensuring that the
Do not be concerned if the AQA logo does not appear or is mis-shapen when the EAD is® Word (2003),front page prominently
– GCE Computing, COMP1 examination, Summer + year of examination
– Centre Number
– Candidate Name
– Candidate Number
– at the end of the examination, the candidate’s signature.
carries the following information:Each subsequent page must also
in a footer (either typed in or written by hand):
– Centre Number
– Candidate Name
– Candidate Number.
Each answer
a staple or tie in the top left hand corner.
carry the following personal information of the candidatemust be clearly numbered. All pages must be securely attached together withTurn over
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C Using screen captures (screen dumps/shots) in the EAD
Paste the screen capture into a cell of the EAD.
1. select the cell in which the screen capture appears
2. double click to bring up the picture editor dialogue box called ‘Format Picture’
3. select the ‘Layout’ tab
4. select the ‘In Front of Text option’
5. press ‘OK’ and go back to your EAD cell
6. expand the cell in the EAD by pressing the return key on your keyboard enough
times until the cell is big enough to show the whole screen capture. Crop the screen
capture if necessary, but ensure the examiner will be able to read it easily.
If only part of the capture shows up in the cell:
1. paste any screen capture into a blank Word document and save it using a suitable
filename
2. print this document with a footer containing the Centre Number, Candidate Name and
Candidate Number (or write them on by hand after printing)
3. insert the question part number
4. attach to the printed EAD in the relevant place leaving a reference in the
corresponding cell of the EAD to advise the examiner to look for a supplementary
handout containing a screen capture.If the above should fail, candidates should be advised to:
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