June 2011
International GCSE
Information Communication
Technology
Paper 01
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General Marking Guidance
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All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the last.
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Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.
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Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie. •
There is no ceiling on achievement. All marks on the mark scheme should be used appropriately.
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All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded.
Examiners should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the
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