Class A2



DPS International

First Term Examination

Syllabus

Class A2

AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE (8693)

PAPER 12 (PASSAGES FOR COMMENT) – 50 MARKS

DURATION: 2 HOURS

A)

- COMMENTARY BEFORE DIRECTED WRITING (15 MARKS)

- DIRECTED WRITING BASED ON ORIGINAL PASSAGE (10 MARKS)

B)

- DIRECTED WRITING BEFORE COMMENTARY (10 MARKS)

- COMPARISON OF DIRECTED WRITING & ORIGINAL PASSAGE (15 MARKS)

C)

- DIRECTED WRITING: CONTINUATION OF STORY (10 MARKS)

- COMPARISON OF CONTINUATION & ORIGINAL PASSAGE (15 MARKS)

CANDIDATES ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS FROM A CHOICE OF THREE

PAPER 12 (PASSAGES FOR COMMENT) – 50 MARKS

DURATION: 2 HOURS

SECTION A (25 MARKS)

- NARRATIVE WRITING

- DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

- IMAGINATIVE WRITING

CANDIDATES ANSWER ONE QUESTION FROM A CHOICE OF FOUR

SECTION B (25 MARKS)

- ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING

- DISCURSIVE WRITING

CANDIDATES ANSWER ONE QUESTION FROM A CHOICE OF FOUR

Accounting

Syllabus for Check Point Exams

Subject - Accounting Level

Paper 2 1 hour 30 minutes

PAPER STRUCTURE :

PAPER : 1 MULTIPLE CHOICE PAPER

30 multiple choice questions .There are 30 marks for this paper.

PAPER : 2 STRUCTURED PAPER

3 structured questions .There are 90 marks for this paper.

WEIGHTAGE : PAPER -1 40% AND PAPER -2 60% of total marks

SYLLABUS :

Complete AS Level syllabus as per syllabus booklet (CIE) 2011.

Biology

Checkpoints

1. Cell structure

2. Biological molecules

3. Enzymes

4. cell membranes and transport

5. Cell and nuclear division

6. Genetic control

7. Transport in plants and animals

8. gas exchange

9. infectious diseases

10. Immunity

11. Ecology

Physics

1. Units and measurements

2. Mechanics

3. Waves and Oscillations

4. Thermal Physics

5. Electricity & Magnetism

6. Modern Physics.

Note: The papers will be based on the AS syllabus only of CIE which includes some or all the topics covered in the above mentioned units.

Mathematics

Complete AS syllabus of P1, M1 and S1

Business Studies

Unit 1 Business and Environment

1. The need for and nature of business activity.

2. Business activity and economic structure

3. Business size and business growth

4. Business objectives and strategies

5. constraints on business strategies: 1. External economic influences

6. Constrains on business strategies: 2. Technological, legal, social and environmental

Unit 2 Marketing Decisions

7. Marketing issues and concepts

8. Market research and sales forecasting

9. The marketing mix – product

10. The marketing mix – pricing decisions

11. Marketing decisions: promotion and place

12. Marketing strategy and market planning

Unit 3 People in organizations

13. Motivation in theory

14. Motivation in practice

15. Management roles and leadership styles

16. The structure of organizations

17. Communication

18. Human resource management

19. Further human resource management

Unit 4 Operations management decisions

20. Intoducing operations management

21. Costs, break-even and costing methods

22. Improving operational efficiency 1: Capacity, scale of operation and work study

23. Improving operational efficiency 2: Stock management; lean production

24. Improving operational efficiency 3: Quality issues; operational planning

Unit 5 Business accounting and finance

26. The need for business accounts

27. The final accounts of business

28. Analysis of published accounts

29. Investment appraisal

30. Cash flow management and budgeting

Unit 6 Numerate techniques for business studies

31. Information for decision making

PATTERN

[pic]

Economics

• COLIN BAMFORD

CHAPTERS 1-12

(except Philips Curve)

• ALAIN ANDERTON AS LEVEL

CHAPTERS 1-37

• ALAIN ANDERTON

UNITS 47—56 , 58,59,

61—65,

67—69,

71—74,

82—84

86, 89, 90,

93—95

Chemistry

• MOLE AND STOICHIMETRY

• ATOMIC STRUCTURE

• CHEMICAL BONDING

• CHEMICAL ENERGETICS

• REDOX REACTIONS

• CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM

• STATES OF MATTER

• CHEMICAL PERIODICITY

• GROUP 2 AND GROUP-7

• NITROGEN AND SULPHUR

• INTRODUCTORY TOPICS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

• HYDROCARBONS

• HALOGEN DERIVATIVES

• HYDROXY COMPOUNDS

• CARBONYL COMPOUNDS

• CARBOXYLIC ACID

ICT

WRITTEN PAPER

1. ICT systems including portable communication devices

• Types of hardware

• Types of software

• Application of Input devices

• Identification of Output devices

• Application of Output devices

• Control devices in control applications

• Storage Media

• Portable Communication devices

2. How organizations use ICT – Part 1

• Control Systems

▪ Maintaining constant physical conditions: Air conditioning systems, Central heating systems, Refrigeration

▪ Car manufacture: Industrial robots

▪ Medical applications: Intensive care

▪ Process control

• Remote working

▪ Home working

▪ Remote working

▪ Office based working

▪ Through the use of: Video conferencing, Phone conferencing, Instant messaging, Faxing

• Use of ICT in Advertising

▪ Product advertising

▪ Business advertising

▪ Service advertising

▪ All of these through: Websites, Multimedia presentations, Flyers, Posters

• Use of ICT in Teaching and learning

▪ CAL

▪ CBL

▪ CAD

• Use of ICT in Publishing

▪ Printing: Books, Magazines, Newspapers

▪ All through: Computerised plate making, Computerised typesetting, Facsimile transmission

• Use of ICT in Time Management.

▪ Managers of offices: Organising meeting times, Arranging workload, Research and development, projects

▪ Construction project management: Identifying project progress, Daily and weekly planning

• Data management

▪ Sequential file systems

▪ Indexed sequential & random access files

▪ Relational database systems

• Use of Data management

▪ Hierarchical database management Systems

▪ Network database management systems

3. Impact of ICT on society – Part 1

CONTENTS:

• Payroll Applications

▪ Producing payslips

▪ Financial reports

• Technical and Customer support

▪ Utility companies

▪ Mail order catalogue firms

▪ Telephone call centres

▪ Customer support for computer hardware and software

▪ On-line help lines

• Online services

▪ On-line shopping

▪ On-line banking

• Employment: General Staff unemployment, technical staff – employment opportunities

• Increased Leisure time: Staff may work for shorter periods

• Working patterns: Job-sharing, part-time working, flexible working hours, working from home, compressed hours, ability to move from branch to branch

• Health and Safety: Increase in RSI, vision and posture problems. Need for increased safety measures against electrocution, fire etc.

• Security of, privacy of and access to personal/ confidential information/data: Need to protect confidentiality of data, data protection legislation, social and ethical implications of access to personal information. Need for security

4. Systems Life Cycle

CONTENTS:

• Analysis:

• Different methods of researching a situation

• Establishing the inputs, outputs and processing in the existing system

• Recording information about the current system

• Identifying problems with the current system

• Identifying suitable hardware and software for a new system

• Identifying the user and information requirements

• Design:

• Specifying the required hardware and software

• Designing data collection forms, screen layouts

• Designing report layouts and screen displays

• Designing validation routines

• Designing the required data/file structures and programming specifications

• Development and testing

▪ Creating data structures, program modules

▪ Testing strategies

▪ Improvements that could be needed as a result of testing

• Implementation

▪ Identifying the different methods of system implementation

• Documentation

▪ Designing and developing elements of technical documentation

▪ Designing and developing elements of user documentation

• Evaluation

▪ Evaluating a new system in terms of the efficiency, ease of use and appropriateness of the solution

PRACTICAL TEST

• Communication

• Document and Presentation Production

• Data Handling 1 – Databases and Charts

• Integration 1

• Output Data

• Data Handling 2 – Spreadsheets

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download