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[Tracy]

Well all i can say tank god it was better than last years exam. I was really with the written paper and i was of with the practical paper... done the majority of it in 20 minutes then i saw the last task. As i looked around the room so did everyone else and we all shook our heads!!! nIt needed IF STATEMENTS and we asked our teacher bout them but she told us we didn't need to know them and they came up!! Typical!!

How was everyone elses experience??

Hope it was good Trace x x x

[Rubberducky]

Yeh i thot that written paper was fine.. some catches in a few o the questions. I did questions one and two. What about you? Yeh im not sure about the spreadsheet but what i did made sense! It was tricky tryin to get an absolute cell reference in an IF statement!! what did you get for your final payment needed on the spreadsheets?

Overall quite pleased!

[chocolate limes]

Well i thought that the admin papers were quite hard. The theory was ok but the practical was really hard. It was the spreadsheet task that got me. I was really stuck and couldnt figure out where to get the figures for it until about 10 minutes of staring at it.

Overall, was ok. Could have done better, could have done worse.

I just hope to pass!

[vikki1987]

Hi there, thought the admin exam overall was fine. I did questions 3 and 4 as these seemed the most straightforward to me. The practical was ok though the spreadsheet was something of a challenge. When trying to get an absolute cell reference in a cell you should click on the cell ref in the formula you have typed so that the cursor is on it then press f4 - just a handy hint. I think my final payment was £40.04. Would say i found IF statements straightforward but then again I have done SG Comp and Int2 Info Systems. Overall was pleased.

[Discogirl17]

I so could've done Admin! I'm glad it went ok for you and you can just get absolute references by putting $ signs in you know! Yeh but the F4 way is much quicker!

[Rubberducky]

Hi there, thought the admin exam overall was fine.  I did questions 3 and 4 as these seemed the most straightforward to me.  The practical was ok though the spreadsheet was something of a challenge.  When trying to get an absolute cell reference in a cell you should click on the cell ref in the formula you have typed so that the cursor is on it then press f4 - just a handy hint.  I think my final payment was £40.04.  Would say i found IF statements straightforward but then again I have done SG Comp and Int2 Info Systems.  Overall was pleased.

yey!! thats what i got too! never knew about the F4 thing? o well managed it without that! Im quite pleased cos ive neva done any Admin or comp! lol!

[Rubberducky]

I so could've done Admin! I'm glad it went ok for you and you can just get absolute references by putting $ signs in you know! Yeh but the F4 way is much quicker!

I didnt say that i did not know how to do absolute cell refernces! i just said that it needed a bit o thot cos it was in an IF statement! Geez!!

[cork screw]

OMG!! that was awful

didn't understand the spreadsheet thing!! Did you have to add values!!



the merging didn't work!! Argh!!

[deskjet]

Where was the website address that required to be inserted after Online: (Page 4 Paper 2)?

When I merged the document with the orginal distribution List nothing came up. I then tried to merge from the actual queried distribution list and it came up with error in merged fields. Anybody experience the same?

The spreadsheet was confusing and when I went print it out on 1 page it put the 1st column on 1 page and the last four on another.

I did questions 1 and 4 for section 2 paper 1.

[AmAnDa]

The website address was on the company headed paper! I had a problem with that too but I managed to find it in the end!! lol!

I thought paper 2 was quite hard! Especially the spreadsheet - completely mucked it up! My mail merge worked ok! I never seem to have a problem with it, usually just the query, I tend to stick to the deleting rows out the table!!!

[Icemaiden]

OMG it was sooooooooooooo hard.....and to top it off my computer decided to run....at....a......very......slow......snails........pace.I had no idea about the spreadsheet,tried an IF statement n it didn't work....everyone else had the same problem.Absolutely no-one could get the spreadsheet.The theory wasn't too bad although I feel i've waffled too much,lol.

Huggles

Ice Maiden

[Tracy]

Where was the website address that required to be inserted after Online: (Page 4 Paper 2)?

When I merged the document with the orginal distribution List nothing came up. I then tried to merge from the actual queried distribution list and it came up with error in merged fields. Anybody experience the same?

The spreadsheet was confusing and when I went print it out on 1 page it put the 1st column on 1 page and the last four on another. 

I did questions 1 and 4 for section 2 paper 1.

I found the web page ok... it was in the letter head!! Did everyone put the letter head bit in the VIEW -> HEADER/FOOTER Bit?? Or am i the only one coz no one else in my skool - well the room taht i was in - did. My teacher came in in the middle of the exam and started to hand out printer stuff and yelled coz we didnt have our names on em then the SQA dude - Archie - explained it was intials only !!

Who did u get to sign the letter... If u didnt find it it was in teh job description page at the very front!

Trace x x

[Rubberducky]

yeh i found the ladys name at the front. I put the email address which was in the header, yeh i did put it in the actual header section. Did you put merge fields in for address details on the letter? I did but not many people did that in my school... but i was guessing that you had to cos it was an actual letter!! The spreadsheet took the most time for me, but i did get my formulae to work eventually!

[Tracy]

yeh i found the ladys name at the front. I put the email address which was in the header, yeh i did put it in the actual header section. Did you put merge fields in for address details on the letter? I did but not many people did that in my school... but i was guessing that you had to cos it was an actual letter!! The spreadsheet took the most time for me, but i did get my formulae to work eventually!

Yeah but coz i spent far too much time on the spreadsheet i "made up" a mail merge lol i went <<Nameof adressee>> ect as that is how the comp does it anyway then i typed in the details!!

On the written paper i answered questions 2&5 coz i knew one of the 4mark questions on Q2 down to a tee!!

Lol trace x x

PS Did u leave the booking bit in a box?

[Rubberducky]

the details with phone nos etc? No i didnt leave it in the box... i just put it as text. what did u get for your final spreadsheet figure? I got 5 people on my querie did u? erm...
I did questions 1 and 2 cos i do biz man aswell and some o the parts were related to that so they were fine.

[cork screw]

me too 5 people!!

The spread sheet was definitely was confusing

what was last year's pass mark for an A?

[deskjet]

Do you get answers for the exams on the site because I think I saw that here for maths last year?

[Discogirl17]

Last years pass mark for an A was 68% I think. Not sure though, its was somewhere near 70% though. No we dont get answers as such we discuss answers. For example if you asked could someone post their answers or whats the answer to... then we can help.
We aren't actually allowed to show questions anymore... SQA banned that... we are however allowed to show solutions

[cork screw]

Last years pass mark for an A was 68% I think. Not sure though, its was somewhere near 70% though. No we dont get answers as such we discuss answers. For example if you asked could someone post their answers or whats the answer to... then we can help.
We aren't actually allowed to show questions anymore... SQA banned that... we are however allowed to show solutions

Just wondering if you've seen this years paper?

If you have, what do you think of the paper this year?

[vikki1987]

Thought this years paper was reasonable anyway not too hard did u sit it?