BCS THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT BCS HIGHER EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS BCS Level 4 Certificate in IT. March 2014 EXAMINERS REPORT

BCS THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT BCS HIGHER EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS BCS Level 4 Certificate in IT March 2014 EXAMINERS’ REPORT Software Development...
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BCS THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT BCS HIGHER EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS BCS Level 4 Certificate in IT March 2014 EXAMINERS’ REPORT Software Development General comments on candidates' performance The standard for this examination was higher than for recent sittings, indicating that candidates are taking notice of comments made in previous examination reports. However, failure to read the questions carefully and poor handwriting remain serious concerns; a significant number of candidates could have gained higher marks if they had addressed these issues. Candidates are advised to spend time reading and understanding the exact requirements of the question before writing their answers. There were many incomplete answers or answers not relevant to the question set; these gained few, if any, marks. To give just one example, for question B11 candidates were required to state if errors in the supplied code would have been identified at compile time or runtime. Often this requirement was completely ignored, even though the candidate clearly had the required programming knowledge. The marks lost by omitting this simple part of the question could have made the difference between a pass and a fail. For questions involving code or lists of instructions, many candidates lost marks through careless mistakes or indecipherable handwriting and crossings out, making it impossible for the examiners to see which variables and commands were being used or to understand the program structure. Programming is a discipline that requires precision and care when writing code. Please note that the answer pointers contained in this report are examples only. Full marks were given for valid alternative answers.

SECTION A Candidates were required to answer TWO out of the four questions set A1 Answer pointers Note that the question does NOT ask for any printing – just the program that does the calculations. Print statements are included here for completeness. #include "stdio.h"; float TIMES[4][7]={ {0, 0,0,0,0,0,0}, {0, 22,33,11,55,66,44}, {0, 2,3,1,5,6,4}, {0, 9,8,9,8,9,8}

}; float min(float v[]){ float min=v[1]; int i; for(i=2;i

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