Welcome to IGCSE, GCSE ICT Revision
IGCSE, GCSE ICT section is loaded with revision notes, interactive quizzes, revision worksheets, crosswords, Mind maps, specimen question papers, syllabus gap fills and lot of other free resources. Teachers and students will find subject specific resources which have been prepared keeping in mind the requirements of IGCSE and GCSE curriclum across the globe. Revision notes are to the point and exam practise questions give thorough practise to students and assess their skills on various aspects of the ICT curriculum.
The curriculum content is set out in eight interrelated sections. These sections should be read as an integrated whole and not as a progression. The sections are as follows
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IGCSE ICT (Code 0417)
The syllabus can be downloaded from the CIE website.
For your convenience, here are online versions of the syllabuses shown from the CIE website via the Google Docs viewer.
The syllabus year refers to the year in which the examination will be taken.
IGCSE ICT Assessment
Cambridge IGCSE Information and Communication Technology
Syllabus code 0417
Written paper testing sections 1–8 of the curriculum content and assessing the skills in Assessment objective AO2
All questions compulsory: mostly multiple choice or short answer questions, but also some requiring longer responses
100 marks weighted at 40% of total
and:
Paper 2 {2½ hours}
Practical test assessing knowledge, skills and understanding of sections 9–16 of the curriculum content
80 marks weighted at 30% of total
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Paper 3 {2½ hours}
Practical test assessing knowledge, skills and understanding of sections 9–16 of the curriculum content
80 marks weighted at 30% of total
Past Year Exam Past Papers (IGCSE ICT Code 0417)
We cannot provide past papers for you through this site since CIE owns the copyright to these documents.
However, some past exam papers (theory and practical) along with mark schemes can be downloaded from the CIE open site.
At the moment the following papers and mark schemes are available from the CIE website (clicking a link will open the document up from the CIE website in an online Google Docs viewer):
- 2008 November Paper 1 (Theory) and Mark Scheme
- 2008 November Paper 2 (Practical) and Mark Scheme
- 2008 November Paper 3 (Practical) and Mark Scheme
- 2007 Specimen Paper 1 (Theory) and Mark Scheme
- 2007 Specimen Paper 2 (Practical) and Mark Scheme
- 2007 Specimen Paper 3 (Practical) and Mark Scheme
To answer the practical papers, you will need to download the supporting files (these are ZIP files):
- 2008 November Paper 2 Files
- 2008 November Paper 3 Files
- 2007 Specimen Paper 2 Files
- 2007 Specimen Paper 2 Files
The examiner's reports are very useful to help you identify where students made common mistakes (so that you can avoid the same mistakes)
