Golearners Special ICT Trial Questions For 2024 BECE Candidates – July 2024

Golearners Special ICT Trial Questions For 2024 BECE Candidates – July 2024

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As you prepare to write your 2024 BECE examination, you are advised to revisit some trial questions and previous years’ questions. This is to help you in your preparation for the final examination.

We have given out some of the trial questions for your studies in our previous updates. In this article, we have compiled some trial questions that are likely to appear in your final-year examination.

You can try your hands on them if you are determined to pass your 2024 BECE examination. Please note that these questions were selected from the previous waec ICT past questions, so you should treat them as past questions and solve them by yourself.

You can let us know in the comment below if you need help with some of the questions.

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Golearners Special ICT Trial Questions For 2024 BECE Candidates – July 2024

Question One (1)

(a) State five ways in which Laptop Can be useful to students as Educational ICT Tool.

(b) List 4 Benefits of Using PowerPoint software in the classroom.

(c) What are the 5 benefits of using E-Mail?

(d) Ways students can misuse smartphones.

Question Two (2)

(a) State three benefits of integrating ICT tools into Education.

(b)

(i) Difference between a workbook and a worksheet.

(ii) Highlight the steps involve n creating a new workbook.

(c) Give three ways to save information from a webpage for later access.

(d) State two benefits of saving text from a webpage in a Word document.

Question Two (3)

(a) What is the meaning of the World Wide Web?

(ii) Explain how information can be accessed from the web.

(b) What is the meaning of Video Conference?

(ii) State five benefits of video conferencing.

(c) State 5 characteristics of a secure Email Password.

Question Four (4)

(a) Describe the following word processing features.

(i) Rule.
(ii) Spelling and Grammar.

(b) List three Disadvantages of Email.

(c) Highlight Steps involved in obtaining information from the Internet.

(d) Explain how one can rectify an Excel formula.

Question Five (5)

(a) Computers are very powerful devices. Give four (4) reasons to support the statement above.

(b) Enumerate four (4) reasons why computers should be used in education.

(c) List four (4) main stages of the Information Processing Cycle (IPC).

(d)

(i) Computer viruses are more harmful to computers. Give four (4) reasons to support this assertion.

(ii) Define the following terms;

Storage medium.
Storage device.

Question Six (6)

(a) Copy and complete the table below.

(i)

COMPUTER KEYBOARD COMMAND	COMPUTER KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
	Ctrl + A
Find
Close all current programs
	Ctrl + N
Print
	Ctrl + V

(ii)

COMPUTER KEYBOARD SYMBOLS	MEANING
	Euro sign
%
#
	Ampersand
@
	Asterisk

(b) Define the following terms.

(i) Folder
(ii) File

(c) Give two (2) differences between a file and a folder.

(d) State the meaning of the following computer acronyms:

(i) LAN
(ii) WAN
(iii) PAN
(iv) GPS

Answers to the Above Questions

Question (1)

(a) WAYS A LAPTOP CAN BE USEFUL TO A STUDENT AS AN EDUCATIONAL ICT TOOL

Storing and organizing information
Writing reports
Researching information on the internet
Preparing project presentations.
Watching educational videos
Collaborating with other students online
Sending and receiving information

(b) BENEFITS OF USING POWERPOINT SOFTWARE IN THE CLASSROOM

Helps in the use of images, animations, videos, etc. for teaching and learning which helps students remember information for a long time.
Helps to project visuals that would otherwise be difficult to bring to class.
Helps to bullet major points thereby encouraging effective teaching and learning in the classroom.
Etc.

(c) BENEFITS OF USING E-MAIL

Messages can be accessed from anywhere on the internet
Files can be sent along with messages
It’s quick and easy to use
A single message can be sent to multiple recipients
Allow sending of multimedia messages e.g. text, audio, video, images
Messages can be forwarded to another recipient upon receipt.
One can save money since it is inexpensive.

(d) WAYS STUDENTS CAN MISUSE SMARTPHONES

They may become addicted
Accessing inappropriate content e.g. pornographic materials
It may reduce physical activity among students
Some may use it for fraudulent activities

Question (2)

(a) BENEFITS OF INTEGRATING ICT TOOLS INTO EDUCATION

Motivates students
Improves engagement and understanding
Encourages individual learning
Improves skills development
Improves knowledge retention
Encourages collaboration

(b)(i) DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WORKBOOK AND A WORKSHEET

A worksheet is a single set of where data is being entered while a workbook is an entity
where multiple worksheets can be added to access the data.

(ii) STEPS TO CREATE A NEW WORKBOOK

Click on the start button
Click on All Programs
Click on Microsoft Office
Click on Excel

(c) WAYS TO SAVE INFORMATION FROM A WEB PAGE FOR LATER ACCESS

Using the browser menu to save the page using the Save As command
Copying and pasting the web page into a word processing application and saving it as a document.
Bookmarking the web page using the browser menu.

(d) BENEFITS OF SAVING TEXT FROM A WEB PAGE IN A WORD DOCUMENT

Allows formatting of the text with more visually appealing features.
Allows the editing of the text.
Allows the text to be accessed later even without an internet connection.

Question (3)

(a) (i) MEANING OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB

The World Wide Web—commonly referred to as WWW, W3, or the Web—is an interconnected system of public web pages accessible through the Internet.

(ii) HOW INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED FROM THE WEB

Install a web browser on the computer
Launch the web browser
In the address bar of the browser type the web address www.ghanaweb.com
Click on the hyperlink of any news article of interest.

(b)(i) MEANING OF VIDEO CONFERENCE

A video conference is a live, visual connection between two or more people residing in different locations.

(ii) BENEFITS OF VIDEO CONFERENCING

It increases productivity
It saves money
It saves time
Many people can share information at the same time.

(c) CHARACTERISTICS OF SECURE EMAIL PASSWORDS

Is long, at least 8 characters.
A mixture of both uppercase and lowercase letters
A mixture of letters and numbers
Does not include names and dictionary words
Is not personalized
Is not made up of patterns and predictable formulas
Is unique for all accounts

Question (4)

(a) DESCRIPTION OF WORD FEATURES

(i) RULE: A feature in Word used to see and set tab stops, move table borders, and line up objects in a document.

(ii) SPELLING AND GRAMMAR: A feature in Word used for grammar and spelling-related corrections in a document.

(b) DISADVANTAGES OF E-MAIL

Used to spread viruses
Used to spread alarm messages
Used by fraudsters to dupe people
Etc

(c) STEPS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION FROM THE INTERNET

Open a web browser.
Enter the website address of a search engine in the address bar.
Enter search keywords of the information you wish to find in the search bar of the search engine.
Click on the link of the website from the search results that match the information
you wish to find.

(d) RECTIFYING AN EXCEL FORMULA

All calculations in a worksheet need to begin with an equal sign (=). Therefore, to rectify this situation, Sena simply needs to type ‘=’ in front of his formula.

Golearners Special ICT Trial Questions For 2024 BECE Candidates – July 2024

Golearners Special ICT Trial Questions For 2024 BECE Candidates – July 2024

Question One (1)

Question Two (2)

Question Two (3)

Question Four (4)

Question Five (5)

Question Six (6)

Answers to the Above Questions

Question (1)

Question (2)

Question (3)

Question (4)

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