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 1. Mark created three letter shapes, as shown.

He wanted the ‘M’ to be on top of the other letters so he selected

the ‘M’ and opened the drawing menu.

Which command should he choose?

(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)

2. Miriam typed the sentence shown.

Of all the students in the class, Angus is the most malleable.

Miriam then selected the word ‘malleable’ and opened the Thesaurus.

Which arrow points to the box where the selected word will appear?

(A) (C)

(B) (D)

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 Use the following information to answer questions 3 and 4.

Jack created this spreadsheet to keep track of his pocket money.

3. What formatting has Jack applied to the text in the column headings?

(A) bold and left alignment

(B) bold and centre alignment
(C) underline and left alignment
(D) underline and centre alignment

4. What formula could have been used in cell E11?

(A) =C11-D11
(B) =SUM(E5:E10)
(C) C11-D11
(D) SUM(E5:E10)

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 5. Sonja created this graphic for use in a multimedia presentation about music.

Which of the following changes was applied to image 1 to create image 2?

(A) It was flipped vertically.

(B) It was flipped horizontally.
(C) It was rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
(D) It was rotated 180 degrees clockwise.

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(A) emailing.
(B) a calculation.
(C) word processing.
(D) a computer game.

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 LEVEL OF
QUESTION KEY DESCRIPTION OF SKILL AREA
DIFFICULTY
1 A Understand the ‘order’ function in a drawing menu 3 Medium
Understand how to use the ‘thesaurus’ in a word
2 A 2 Medium
processing program
3 B Understand how to format columns in a spreadsheet 5 Easy
Identify the correct formula for the ‘minus’ function in
4 A 5 Medium/Hard
a spreadsheet
Identify the change made to a graphic - flipped
5 B 3 Medium/Hard
horizontally

LEGEND

Area refers to the particular curriculum area or strand assessed by the question.

1. General Skills

2. Word Processing

3. Graphics/Multimedia

4. Internet/Email

5. Spreadsheets/Databases

Level of difficulty refers to the expected level of difficulty for the question.

Easy more than 70% of candidates will choose the correct option

Medium about 50–70% of candidates will choose the correct option

Medium/Hard about 30–50% of candidates will choose the correct option

Hard less than 30% of candidates will choose the correct option

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