iGCSE ICT Presentation Practice Paper

Pearson Edexcel iGCSE ICT (4IT1) Paper 2-style presentation practice assessment: master slides, animation, hyperlinks, printing and mark scheme.

Give your iGCSE ICT pupils realistic practice for the presentation tasks in Paper 2 (Practical). This complete, ready-to-use practice assessment covers specification topic 6.5 Presentation software. Pupils build a touch-screen information presentation for a planetarium, Starlight Planetarium.

What’s included

• Question paper (PDF, 4 pages) and an editable DOCX version
• Teacher mark scheme (PDF, 4 pages) and an editable DOCX version
• Completed model answer presentation (PPTX)
• Data files zip: IMAGES folder (LOGO, BACKGROUND, MAP, SATURN, MOON, ROCKET, TELESCOPE, CUPCAKE), STARLIGHT TEXT, TICKET PRICES spreadsheet and an EVIDENCE document

Assessment format

45 marks, 1 hour 15 minutes.

Section A – Practical (32 marks)

• Task 1 – Master slide (10 marks): slide size, background image with transparency, title styles, a logo on every slide, footer text, an automatic date and slide numbers (hidden on the title slide), and editing layout masters.
• Task 2 – Slides (6 marks): six slides on the correct layouts, short bullet points, relevant images in placeholders, replacing long text with a map, exact image sizes and fitness for purpose.
• Task 3 – Animations and transitions (5 marks): entrance effects in the Animation Pane, After Previous timing, durations and an automatic timed transition.
• Task 4 – Hyperlinks and action buttons (6 marks): a menu linked to slides, Home action buttons, website and email hyperlinks and a link to a file.
• Task 5 – Speaker notes and printing (5 marks): speaker notes, notes and handouts footers, and printing handouts, notes pages and full page slides to PDF.

Section B – Short answer (13 marks).

Mark scheme

Point-by-point marking grids with “award the mark for” and “check / do not accept” guidance, every mark mapped to a learning objective and to the 4IT1 specification reference 6.5.

Ideal for

End-of-unit practice, mock preparation, timed lab practice, homework or cover lessons.

Notes

Designed for Microsoft PowerPoint. The scenario and all data are fictional.