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J277 1.6.1 Extended response practice
Part 4 of 4 · J277 1.6 · Digital impacts: Depth
A workshop on the 8-mark extended-response question, designed to build a process rather than supply a memorised essay.
Students will:
- use a reliable process for planning an extended answer
- diagnose the difference between a weak and a strong response
- select accurate knowledge and apply it throughout
- cover every requirement printed in the question
- self-assess an answer before improving it
Inside: 6 explanation cells, 2 multiple-choice questions, 1 fill-in-the-blanks cell and 5 written answers. 41 marks, about 60 minutes.
Series: J277 1.6 · Digital impacts: Depth, part 4 of 4.
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Digital impacts Depth 4: extended-response workshop
OCR's 8-mark extended-response questions use a real-world context and levels of response. The exact content changes. A question may specify ethical, legal, privacy or environmental issues, or ask for benefits, drawbacks and a recommendation.
This worksheet helps you plan and write independently. It does not provide a memorised essay. Your task is to select accurate knowledge, apply it throughout and cover the requirements printed in the question. Complete the diagnosis, plan and main answer in order. Then use the alternative capstone for further independent practice.
A reliable process
1. Decode
Underline the command word, required issue areas, named technology and decision.
2. Map
List affected stakeholders and details from the scenario. Plan both benefits and drawbacks where the wording requires discussion.
3. Develop
Use PEEL: point, scenario application, explanation of consequence, and link to the question.
4. Weigh
Compare stakeholder effects, short-term and long-term consequences, likelihood, seriousness or possible safeguards.
5. Check
Return to the question. Have you covered every bullet and used accurate specialist vocabulary? Add a justified recommendation when one is requested.
- unrelated facts
- decode
- drawbacks
- stakeholders
- recommendation
- application
- definitions only
Which four features are characteristic of a strong extended response? Select all that apply.
- AIt uses details from the scenario throughout
- BIt writes every fact remembered about computers
- CIt covers the required sides and issue areas
- DIt repeats the same point in several forms
- EIt explains consequences rather than listing assertions
- FIt uses accurate specialist terminology in a clear structure
Diagnose the difference
Response A
The tracking badge is good because it helps the company. It is bad because there are privacy issues. The DPA says data must be safe.
Response B
Live badge data could show which warehouse zone an employee is in, helping a supervisor send assistance after an accident. However, retaining every movement could reveal break and toilet patterns that are not needed for safety. This may place employees under unreasonable pressure. The company should define the safety purpose, minimise the data and restrict retention and access under the Data Protection Act.
Response B is not stronger simply because it is longer. It applies details, develops stakeholder consequences and connects a relevant legal responsibility to a specific use of data.
Explain three reasons why Response B would be more successful than Response A.
Refer to application, development, precision, balance or relevant law. Use an example from the responses.
Students type their answer here.
Main scenario: connected employee badges
A warehouse gives every employee a connected badge. The badge:
- reports the employee's precise location every ten seconds
- creates an automated productivity score from movement and task data
- alerts supervisors if a person may have fallen
- stores all location and score data for six years
- is required for every shift
Managers say the system will improve safety and efficiency. Employees cannot view or challenge their productivity score.
Plan an answer to: “Discuss the positive and negative impacts of the connected badge system, including ethical, privacy and legal issues.”
Create at least five distinct point chains and show where each required area is covered.
Use badge details and several stakeholders. Include safety and efficiency benefits, concerns about monitoring or scores, and precise Data Protection Act responsibilities.
Students type their answer here.
Which is the strongest counterpoint to the claim that precise location tracking is necessary for employee safety?
- ASafety never matters in a warehouse
- BAll digital badges are illegal
- CA fall alert or zone-level location might provide safety assistance while collecting less detailed movement data and retaining it for less time
- DEmployees should refuse to use every computer
Discuss the positive and negative impacts of the connected badge system, including ethical, privacy and legal issues.
Write independently from your plan. Apply points throughout, cover every required area and consider more than one stakeholder. A final judgement may identify which features should be retained or changed.
Students type their answer here.
Self-assess before reading the next task
Highlight or label:
- each direct reference to the badge scenario
- at least one developed benefit and drawback
- ethical, privacy and legal coverage
- each named stakeholder
- specialist terms used accurately
- any suggested improvement and the exact concern it addresses
If one paragraph could be pasted unchanged into a question about a completely different technology, improve its application.
Alternative capstone: A start-up sells a low-cost smart speaker with a sealed battery, proprietary software and cloud storage of voice recordings. Discuss the ethical, environmental, privacy and legal issues, then recommend two changes to the product or service.
This is deliberately broad. Select relevant knowledge rather than giving equal space to every possible idea. Connect affordability, device life, recordings, data handling and licence restrictions to stakeholders.
Students type their answer here.
Review your main answer. Identify one paragraph that is well applied and one paragraph that needs improvement. Explain the exact revision you would make.
Do not write only 'add more detail'. State what scenario detail, consequence, stakeholder, counterpoint or technical term should be added or corrected.
Students type their answer here.
Extended route complete
Your final checklist:
- I answer the exact command and bullet points.
- I use scenario evidence rather than invented statistics.
- I explain consequences for identifiable stakeholders.
- I develop more than one side when asked to discuss.
- I apply laws to specific actions instead of merely naming them.
- I distinguish data security from justified collection and use.
- I avoid absolutes about licences, automation and environmental choices.
- I make a supported recommendation when the question asks for one.
These habits transfer to scenario questions across Paper 1, not only section 1.6.