Personalised Feedback Sheet for IGCSE Section 4 - Networks

Name: Grace Burns

Target grade: B
General feedback/class needs:
There was a lot of material covered in this unit from the definition of a network,
to LANs, WANs, WLANs, network hardware, security, authentication methods,
video conferencing, Fax, Email and the Data Protection Act. This meant that there
really wasnt anywhere to hide if you didnt do your revision. Fortunately, for
most people, you did well on this test which shows that you have a good base
knowledge across the board in this broad topic well done.
Those who didnt do so well fell in to the same old traps:

No or little revision (and I mean practising the questions on my site, not

reading notes)
Not reading the question or relating to it in your answer
Giving short or one word answers when you need to explain yourself!

These three things should now be considered so basic that no one is making
these mistakes. There is no magic formula for passing a test and no one is just
better than you, it all comes down to how much work youve done and are
prepared to do. If you are able to sit yourself down, practise questions from my
site and test yourself then you stand a chance of doing seriously well.
Your performance:
Marks: 27/54
Percentage: 50%
Grade: D
Your personal targets:
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Make sure to go over and over the questions we did within class
Explain in detail to get the full mark
To know keywords

Challenge/Extension
Copy out and answer fully questions 11, 13, 14 and 15.
11) Describe four differences between an intranet and the internet [4
marks]
Answer 1 Intranet is by one organisation
Answer 2 - An intranet is private and accessible by the public
Answer 3 Services that stream, WWW, Email, Video streaming, File Transfer
Answer 4 The intranet can only be accessed by that organisation
13) Explain the purpose of Data Protection Act and one of the principles
[2marks]

The data protection act makes sure that businesses only use the data for the
purposes that the user is aware of and one of the principles is that they must
protect the data properly so this means that using things like ecrypiction in case
someone hacks the system.
14) Give three advantages of Video Conferencing [3marks]
Advantage 1 You can set up meetings at any time
Advantage 2 You dont have to pay travel expenses
Advantage 3 Meetings can be from anywhere as long as you had internet
connection