S850/2
Subsidiary ICT
PRACTICAL
Paper 2
2025
2 hours
KABS ICT RESOURCE CENTER
Uganda Advanced Certificate Of Education
SUBSIDIARY ICT
(PRACTICAL)
Paper 2
2 hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO SUB - CANDIDATES:
This paper is made up of five equally weighted questions.
Answer any three questions.
Any additional question(s) will not be marked
Each candidate is provided with support files in the folder Support Files on the
Computer Desktop. Use the support files where applicable to supplement the
questions.
Candidates should continuous save their work.
Each candidate must produce a hard copy for each question answered to
accompany the Soft Copy.
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Answer any three questions in this paper
1. Using a word processor of your choice, type the document below using Comic Sans
Ms font style with font size 14, Save it as Reading Lesson 1. (04 marks)
Jack is a young lad living with his widowed mother. Their only means of income
is a cow. When this cow stops giving one morning, Jack sent to the market to
sell it. On the way to the market he meets an old man who offers to give him
“magic” beans in exchange for the cow.
Jack takes the beans but when he arrives home without any money, his mother
becomes angry and throws the beans to the ground and sends Jack to bed
without supper.
(b) Copy all the text and paste it on to page two. (01 mark)
(c) Include a centred heading JACK & THE BEAN STALK and format it to size 28
orange colour with a green wavy underline. (03 marks)
(d) Change the spacing for all paragraphs of text to 1.5. (01 mark)
(e) Drop cap on two lines the letter beginning paragraph one. (01 mark)
(f) Insert an auto shape of a face in the middle of paragraph 1. (02 marks)
• Wrap text around it Tight.
(g) Insert a watermark as “Reading Lesson” in your work. (01 mark)
(h) On page 2 below the text, use a table of 7 rows and 3 columns to design your class
time table. (02 mark)
(i) Modify the table in (h) and make it appear like the one below. (03 marks)
Timetable for Reading lessons
CLASS 2 CLASS 3
BREAK
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
KEY:
Teacher Agnes Teacher Helen
(j) Insert a header of your name and Class. (01 mark)
(k) Save changes to your work and print out. (01 mark)
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2. Load a suitable presentation package and carry out the following tasks. Import the file
J224LANDINGS.docx from support Files saved on the Desktop placing the text as
slides in your presentation software. (This should provide 5 slides). (03 marks)
The master slide must have:
i. A blue 6point wide horizontal line between the Master title and Master Text styles
ii. Heading with font 48point Comic Sans MS aligned to the center of the slide.
iii. A picture of a boat from clipart placed in the top left corner and J224FISH.JPEG
placed to the right corner above the line. Resize the images so that they fit the
space without touching or overlapping the line. Make sure the aspect ratio is
maintained
iv. your name in a 10point black Tahoma font in the bottom left corner
v. automatic slide numbers in the bottom center
vi. Apply all master slide elements to all slides.
Your master slide may look like this: (06 marks)
vii. Insert a new slide before slide 1. Use a layout with a title and subtitle for the new
slide. (02 marks)
viii. Enter the text UK Fishing Fleet as the title.
ix. Enter the text Summary of species landed as a subtitle.
x. On the first slide insert a star shape in the bottom right corner. Enter the text
2025 in the center of the star. (01 mark)
xi. Load the file J224TYPE.xlsx and create a vertical Column chart using that data
(03 marks)
xii. This chart should compare the quantity and value of each type of fish landed.
xiii. Label the chart with
the title Fish Landed
axis titles as Fish Type and Number
xiv. Copy and place the chart to the right of the bullet points on the slide with the title
Landings by UK Vessels: (Save the sheet in your folder as Chart Data)
(02 marks)
xv. Save the presentation as UK Fishing Fleet in Your Folder
xvi. For the entire presentation, Format it with the following guidelines
❖ Use any of the slide design
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❖ Loop automatically until 02 sec, with a slow transition
❖ apply animation scheme of your choice (01 mark)
xvii. Link all slides to one another using action buttons with a Text NEXT in all your
action buttons used except the return button (02 marks)
o Print the presentation as handouts with six slides to the page.
o Print the slide with the title Landings by UK Vessels as a full slide.
3. Open a database file called TULITYA.accdb that is in your support folder
a) Import the data from a file called TREATMENT.xlsx that is in the support folder
into the database (02 marks)
b) In the imported table,
• Rename the table as Mothers
• Change the format of units for doctors’ fees to UGX
• Set the date format to medium date
• Format the Name field to automatically store names in upper case
• For purposes of validation, enter a rule that will limit Doctors fees to Not more
than shs 900,000
• Use a function to determine the average Doctors fee
(04 marks)
c) Create a relationship between the two tables. (01 mark)
d) Create a form that can be used to enter new data in the mothers table and save it as
Entry Form. (01 mark)
(i) On your form calculate 15% discount on doctors’ fees (02 marks)
(ii) Given that Doctors whose fee is 200000 and above are categorized as “Form”
otherwise “substance” use an IIF function to work out this in a new field
named Category. (02 marks)
(iii) Add date and time you created your form (01 mark)
(iv) Create a footer of your names and class (01 mark)
(e) Create queries
(f) In table 1 to select girl children born with complications, save query as Complicated
(02 marks)
(g) In the mothers table to determine mothers whose date of birth occurred in December
and save it as December (02 marks)
(h) Make a report for complicated girl children with the following information (02 marks)
(i) Arrange in descending order of names
(ii) A label of your name as a header
(i) Print your work
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4. Enter the data below into a suitable spread sheet application program and save it as
“Raw Marks” (04 marks)
Student Names Telephone Test A % Test B %
Number number
01 Harriet 0712445230 53 43
02 Beth 0702512012 48 22
03 Harith 0772652310 62 35
04 Bruno 0773652149 85 68
05 Hyde 0782416212 56 56
06 Hearte 0752316242 72 70
07 Pilly 0774512634 62 48
(ii) Copy the work in (i) and paste it in worksheet 2 of the same workbook. Name the
worksheet 2 as “Percentage-marks”. (02 marks)
(iii) Given that Test A and Test B are Marked Out of 90 and 70 respectively, enter
appropriate formulae to calculate the percentage marks to one decimal place value for
both tests using “percentage-marks” worksheet. (02 marks)
(iv) Use functions to obtain the difference between the highest and the lowest percentage
marks in Test A in cell E15. (02 marks)
(v) Calculate the average mark for Test B in cell G15. (01 mark)
(vi) Using the “if statement, assign grades to students using their percentage marks of test
B in a way that , marks above 80, assign a D1,75-79, a D2, 70-74, a C3, 60-69, a C4, 50-
59, a C5,the rest an F. (03 marks)
(vii) Add a column comment and determine the comments as follows; 80+ =
“Excellent”, 70-79 = “Very Good”, 60-69= “Tried”, 50-59 = “Fair” otherwise “Work
Hard”. (02 marks)
(viii) Select the names, set A and Set A % columns to form a column chart with
appropriate title and labels. Save it as Performance Analysis. (03 marks)
(ix) Using this chart, convert the values for set A into a line graph. (02 marks)
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5. (a) Using any desktop publication software of your choice, create the document below
as it appears. Save it as your personal number. (04 marks)
(b) Set the page to landscape orientation and in A4 paper size. (01 mark)
Image
NETWORK TOPOLOGY!
BUS TOPOLOGY STAR TOPOLOGY RING TOPOLOGY
1 2
Image Image Image
(c) Insert text from the file TOPOLOGIES.doc into the appropriate auto shapes.
(03 marks)
(d) Insert respective images in the text in the auto shapes. (03 marks)
• Bus image on the left text box
• Star image in the middle textbox
• Ring image in the right text box
(e) Fill rounded shapes and their title rectangle shape with an orange color and the
whole text box with a gold color. The major background color is Marbel.
(03 marks)
(f) Enhance the arrows connecting to auto shapes with a dark blue 4pt weight size.
(02 marks)
(g) Insert the picture from the file INTERNET.doc to the right of the Title. Resize
the picture to fit in the textbox. (02 marks)
(h) Insert footer as your name and personal number. (01 mark)
(i) Save and print your work (01 mark)
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