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Student Checklists & Downloads
These checklists are your essential companions for the IA. Use them at each stage of your project, from proposal to final submission, to ensure you haven't missed any key requirements. They break down...
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The 5-Minute IA Video: A Practical Guide
The 5-minute video is a critical part of your IA, providing the primary evidence for Criterion D. Its sole purpose is to demonstrate that your product is fully functional and to show examples of your...
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Criterion E: Evaluation
Criterion E (4 marks) is your final reflection. Here, you must critically evaluate your product against the specific success criteria you defined in Criterion A, using evidence from your testing in Criterion...
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Criterion D: Development
Criterion D (12 marks) is the core of your IA, where you show your product and coding skills. It's not enough to just paste code. You must use code excerpts to explain and justify why you chose specific...
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Criterion B: Planning
Criteria B (4 marks) is part of the project blueprint. Criterion B is your high-level project management plan: decomposing the problem and scheduling the work. This page covers the planning phase of...
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A 3.2.5 Normal Forms
This section explains normal forms (1NF, 2NF, 3NF) in relational databases. It covers atomicity, unique identification, functional/partial-key/transitive dependencies. Normalization reduces data duplication,...
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A 3.2.5 Worksheet 2
Topic: A3.2.5 Normal Forms Scenario: The Global Robotics Competition (GRC) Instructions: You are given a raw "flat-file" dataset. Your task is to pass this data through three "sieves" (1NF, 2NF, and 3NF)....
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A 3.2.5 Worksheet 2 - Answers
Topic: A3.2.5 Normal Forms (Global Robotics Competition Scenario) Goal: Every cell must be atomic (no lists). Goal: Every non-key attribute must depend on the whole composite key. 1. Analysis: 2. Resulting...
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A 3.2.6 Worksheet
Greenview International School manages its extracurricular activities using a spreadsheet. The current system is inefficient, suffers from data redundancy, and is prone to update anomalies. Your task...
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B 3.1.3 Worksheet Java
Name: _________________________ Date: _______________ Part 1: Definitions Fill in the blanks to complete the following definitions: Part 2: Code Analysis Study the following Java code snippets and answer...