This document provides feedback on a student's Term 1 exam. It indicates they got 11 multiple choice questions wrong in Section I. For Section II, question 11, the student should have discussed the advantages of JPEG over GIF for a file being used on the web. For Section III, the student needed to discuss more than one issue and link each issue back to the scenario in order to score higher marks. Overall, the feedback emphasizes structuring responses, discussing multiple advantages and disadvantages for each issue, and linking all points back to the original scenario.

1. Term 1 Exam Feedback
Industrial Tech Multimedia Prelim. 2011

2. Multiple Choice
1 c or d 6a
2b 7b
3c 8c
4d 9c
5c 10 d

3. Section II
11. Gif
(accepted some varieties of vector formats)
Why? Gif saves drawings with plain lines, not alot of
detail, like logos and cartoons much better than jpeg.

4. Section II
12. You were not disadvantaged by getting 11 wrong.
So, if you answered jpeg in question 11, and wrote that
jpeg was more standardised than say, photoshop, and
that this was important becuase the file was being
used on the web, while still being an appropriate size
due to the compression rate, and also included more
colours than gif....that was three marks.
You needed to have a number of reasons why, linked to
the scenario.

5. Section II
Easier to add to
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12. You were not disadvantaged by getting 11 wrong.
coming up for some
reason...not sure why?
So, if you answered jpeg in question 11, and wrote that
jpeg was more standardised than say, photoshop, and
that this was important because the file was being
used on the web, while still being an appropriate size
due to the compression rate, and also included more
colours than gif....that was three marks.
You needed to have a number of reasons why, linked to
the scenario.

6. Section II
Apologies for the spelling error.
However, you didnt’ need a picture to answer the
question...and if you wasted time whinging about
the lack of said picture, then you have taken about
the same time that I’ve taken on this slide to whinge
about the whinging, when you could have spent that
much time answering the question....Rude isn’t it?

7. You could have used
any reasonable
process to make an
animation here.

8. Section II
14. Sound file =MP3
Any process used to compress the file (stereo to audio,
decrease sample rate, decrease sample size)

9. 15
Any reasonable
process to backup a
file. Not
media....method

11. Section III If this had have been
marked this way, lots of
people would have been
grounded.
Big issues:
Lots of students didn’t answer to the keyword
“Discuss”.
Discuss requires you to give advantages AND
disadvantages
Some students who should have received 10, should
have gone down to 4 marks because of this. *

12. The number one big issue
There were two
questions, not one.

13. Big issues
Not talking about
enough issues.
You should have about
600-700 words, which
is about 6-7 pages of
content
You should talk about 5
issues to get to the top
band

14. Little Issues
You need to link to the
scenario.
Most people did this
very well, but you need
to be clear in each
issue how it is linked to
the scenario.

15. Good things
Most people knew the syllabus REALLY well.
Those that didn’t, and tried to just use common sense
didn’t do very well at all.
You need to prove your knowledge of the syllabus by
using syllabus content, terminology and structure.

16. Ways to improve
Structure your work
Write an essay plan at the beginning. Students who do
this are unlikely to “brain dump” (ie, just try and write
anything about what they know)
This also makes sure that you don’t repeat the same
content, which is a common problem.

17. Your paragraphs
Each paragraph should address only one issue. This is
so that you elaborate enough about the issue, you ping
structure, and you talk about enough issues.
Use paragraphs! Remember markers are there at 9pm,
waiting to get home, and you need to make it easy for
them to read and find information. Make it easy for them
to give you marks.

18. Use SLEEK for each
paragraph/issue
State the issue
Link to the question
Elaborate/Explain
Example
Knock on Effect