Guide me too improve my IT applications SS

[Faraz]

hey guys

neways I wanted to get myself the highest SS for IT not like 50/50 or nothing just hopefully in the 40+. I'm an okay student I do the work, I've done all the work up to chapter 5 and well my outcomes turned out okay.... well actually not the first I got a low thats because  didnt know how they would be marked. For the first Outcome I got low but for the second I got high so its going better I just wanna learn the methods of improving my SS at the end of the year because IT will have to be one of my top 4.

Thank you

[jsimmo]

Hey,

To get a 40+ study score you would need to achieve an A+ in your unit 3 and unit 4 coursework as well as an A+ on the end-of-year exam. If you haven't been getting these grades don't panic because your SACs might be very hard compared to other schools SACs, hence your scores would probablly go up during the moderation process.

Make sure you understand what will be on your SACs! Try to ask your teacher heaps of questions about all the different tasks and such that you need to do - once you know what to do it is a good idea to follow the case studies in the IT textbook. These case study's are pretty much set out in the same way as your SACs.

Check out this website: http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/vceit/main.htm

It has excellent advice for IT: Applications including notes for the whole course! It's awesome. (However, try to make your own notes throughout the year - using the study guide 'key knowledge')

I also have The Leading Edge study guide (which was written by the same guy from that website). It covers the course in depth and provides really good exam preparation advice, so if you want some extra help than I recommend buying the book.

Thats all the advice I can give you for now. Good Luck!!

[ell]

Mark Kelly is a God, his website is one of the most valuable resources you will have for any IT subject.

This is what I'm doing for this subject, you might find it useful as well (this is more exam prep, and it also can apply for pretty much any other subject):

- Grab the study design and make summaries/notes under each "Key Knowledge" dot point. This just ensures that you've covered all the theory that may appear on the exam.
- Familiarise yourself with the type of questions that will appear on the exams. Go through the past exams/assessment reports and identify the common questions that they ask (e.g. there's always a legal/ethical obligation Q). This might ruin your exam practice later in the year, but I think it's worthwhile to really understand how VCAA words questions and what kind of answers they expect.

To prepare for SACs, as jsimmo said your textbook should have sample case studies. These are really helpful, and they're all usually the same - some organisation has a problem (too inefficient or ineffective) and you have to develop a solution to fix it. Practice pinpointing the key problems in case studies and you should be fine for the outcomes. The answers are generally the same as well - you just have to mould the answer so that it relates to the case study.

And yeah that's about it. =) Whenever in doubt with a question, just use your common sense - it'll probably come up with the correct answer.

[Flaming_Arrow]

is there good book for software development other than checkpoints?

[Faraz]

  thx guys great help I will put all you adivce into use

and also the websites great 

[jsimmo]

Does anyone have Mark Kellys email address? I have tried using [email protected] but it won't work.

[excal]

Make summaries of each chapter and then mindmaps based off that. Why? There are a LOT of concepts you need to grasp in IT (ensuring you have a concise set of notes to read before exam time is a godsend), but they are fortunately interconnected most of the time. That's where the mindmap comes in.

[transgression]

Thanks for the link and especially to jsimmo and ell for the encouragement 
I hope to get a raw score of 45 for IT:A