The OCR nationals offer a comprehensive range of user, practitioner and multimedia units which will stimulate students creativity and develop real world, practical skills that will motivate learning across a wide range of subjects and prepare them for the real world of work or further education.

The OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT comprise:

• OCR Level 2 National First Award in ICT (06324): same size/level as 1 GCSE grade A*-C
• OCR Level 2 National Award in ICT (06325): same size/level as 2 GCSEs grades A*-C
• OCR Level 2 National First Certificate in ICT (06299): same size/level as 3 GCSEs grades A*-C
• OCR Level 2 National Certificate in ICT (06276): same size/level as 4 GCSEs A*-C or GNVQ Intermediate.

The OCR consists of 23 units, all students must complete unit 1 and the school will select further units for the students to complete depending on the number of GCSE’s that they are aiming for. The table below includes the combination of units that must be completed to gain the different amounts of GCSE’s and a list of the units that students can complete.

Qualification

OCR Level 2 National First Award in ICT

OCR Level 2 National Award in ICT

OCR Level 2 National First Certificate in ICT

OCR Level 2 National Certificate in ICT

GCSE equivalent

1

2

3

4

Guided Learning Hours

90

100

270

360

Combination of units

A + 1C

A + 2B

A + 1B + 2C

A + 3B + 1C

A + 2B + 3C

A + 5B

A + 4B + 2C

A + 3B + 4C

Unit

1

2

4

6

20

21

22

23

Title

ICT skills for business

Webpage creation

Design and produce multimedia products

Spreadsheets – design and use

Creating animation for the WWW using ICT

Creating computer graphics

Creating sound using ICT

Creating video

Group

A

B

B

B

C

C

C

C

Information on OCR can be found on the OCR website

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