Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Form 3 Computer Studies Mid Term 2 Exam 2025 with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request.

  The marking scheme is in a different document.

  The exam paper, titled "COMPUTER STUDIES FORM 3 MID TERM 2 2024" in the document (note: the user's request mentioned 2025), contains 7 main questions or question blocks. All questions are to be answered. The exam is marked out of a total of 50 marks and should be completed by learners within a duration of 1 hour.

  The topics covered in the exam include:

  • Internet and E-mail:
    • Identifying parts of an e-mail address.
    • Mentioning examples of e-mail software.
    • Stating benefits of saving information from the Internet to a hard disk.
    • Giving reasons that may lead to computer fraud.
    • Outlining ways of preventing software piracy with regard to data and information.
  • Input Devices:
    • Giving examples of devices that read data, pointing devices, and voice input devices.
  • Data Representation:
    • Performing number system conversions (e.g., binary to denary, hexadecimal to binary, denary to octal, denary fraction to binary).
  • Arithmetic Operations in Computers:
    • Performing binary arithmetic (subtraction and addition).
    • Using two's complement to perform subtraction with binary and denary numbers.
  • Data Processing:
    • Describing, with illustration, the four primary stages of the data processing cycle.
    • Explaining the relevance of "Garbage In Garbage Out" (GIGO) in reference to errors.
    • Explaining the two main types of errors in data processing.
    • Naming and explaining types of transcription errors.
    • Stating types of computational errors.
  • Data Integrity:
    • Defining the term "Data integrity" (the question might be incomplete in the provided document as only part (a) is visible).
• File Size:

  32.42 KB
• Length:

  4 pages
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Form 3
• Subject:

  COMPUTER STUDIES
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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