Information I

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Free Information I study notes for Common Test for University Admissions students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.

Information Society and Problem Solving

  • Problem solving with information and information technology

  • Information and media characteristics

  • Laws and systems concerning information

  • Information security

  • Information morals and individual responsibility

  • Impact of information technology on people and society

Communication and Information Design

  • Media characteristics and means of communication

  • Digital representation of text, sound and images

  • The role of information design

  • Methods of information design

  • Designing, evaluating and improving expression

Computers and Internal Representation

  • Structure of computers and external devices

  • Number bases and binary representation

  • Limits of computation and error

  • Logic circuits and basic operations

Algorithms and Programming

  • Expressing algorithms (flowcharts and program notation)

  • Variables, arrays and assignment

  • Branching and repetition

  • Functions and program structure

  • Search and sort algorithms

  • Tracing, evaluating and improving programs

Modelling and Simulation

  • Methods of modelling

  • Deterministic simulation

  • Probabilistic simulation

  • Evaluating and improving models

Networks and Information Systems

  • Network structure and components

  • The role of protocols

  • Methods and technologies for information security

  • Storing, managing and providing data

  • Information systems and the services they provide

Data Utilisation

  • Representing and structuring data

  • Collecting and organising data

  • Quantitative and qualitative data analysis

  • Reading charts: box plots, scatter plots and cross tabulation

  • Comparison, correlation, change and classification

  • Presenting, evaluating and improving results

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