doing exam on microsoft access...

[DazHAT]

I'm not doing one this minuet but I would still appreciate help.

the exam is in the UK and with AQA.

does anyone know of any sites which will give me tasks to do to test myself.


Thanks in advance

 

[Moniker]

Umm, Google? Search on "Online MS Access test" and you'll find some for free and some for a small fee (usually $10 or less US).

 

[DazHAT]

Umm, Google? Search on "Online MS Access test" and you'll find some for free and some for a small fee (usually $10 or less US).

thought of that but I am doing an an exam for a specific exam board. I think it is differant in the USA but I have to know specific things about access. It would be a waste of time to do a test for things that I will not have to know in my exam.

Thanks anyway.

 

[KKilfoil]

It would be a waste of time to do a test for things that I will not have to know in my exam

You ARE aware that, eventually, you are going to want to APPLY your accumulated knowledge on something that 'isn't on a test' !

Learning about a topic is NEVER a waste of time.

 

[Moniker]

Kilfoil, I actually backspaced over a huge post I had made to that same effect. The whole "I only need to know as little as possible to get by" mentality is exactly the sort of thing I made fun of in my "Top Ten Ways" post.

Thanks for saying something where I just decided to not respond at all.

 

[DazHAT]

You ARE aware that, eventually, you are going to want to APPLY your accumulated knowledge on something that 'isn't on a test' !

Learning about a topic is NEVER a waste of time.

yes, but it's opportunity cost: I will be better off learning about things which I know I will do in my exam rather than learing about things which will help me use access but not raise my grade.

I know this might seem a very monetary way of looking at it but I am not planning on following a carear in IT or at university

Thanks anyway

 

[jkl0]

Just my 2 cents worth:
All knowledge is worth something somwhere down the line. I started learning about computers and programming more than 30 years ago (because I was genuinely curious). But I started out my career as a sheetmetal worker. Little did I know that later on in my career that seemingly useless knowledge would help me get promoted from the blue collar field to the white collar field (while working for the government), and that all of that accumulated computer knowledge that I learned on my own would play a huge part in my career.
All of this is to say don't pass up free knowledge, because you'll wish that you had not in the later years of your working career.

 

[CraigDolphin]

Likewise. I'm a marine biologist. Yet I've spent about 85% of my work time over the last year designing databases in Access for my department and now have other departments knowcking on my door. All because I'm one of the few people in my dept who can create access applications.

I would never have imagined it when I was going through undergrad or postgrad.

 

[DazHAT]

thanks for the advice.