The September exams are coming soon. To prepare I am going over old exam papers. I am horrified at how much my learners have forgotten. I am very grateful, that now, with the 3rd group of learners writing the NSC, we have a bank of old papers to use. It is quite amusing, doing the practical papers, using Office 2007 in our lab, realising how different 2003 and 2007 are. What was easy in 2003 is difficult in 2007 and vice versa, especially in advanced Word, Excel and Access. I hope the 2010 papers take this into consideration, e.g. protecting a Word form in 2007 is tricky but easy in 2003, creating Word forms in 2007 is tricky, removing lines in Access forms is not necessary in 2007, making certain textbooks different sizes on an Access input form is tricky in 2007 but so easy in 2003, etc. All these small 'problems' make life challenging.
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I agree. Many things in 2007 are actually much simpler but it took me ages to find out how to move controls around in a 2007 form.
Maybe the practical exams need to concentrate more on the "big" ideas.
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