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Questions 1-4 
Answer the following questions with NOT MORE THAN THREE words which 
MUST COME FROM THE TEXT. Write your answers in spaces numbered 1-4 
on 
the answer sheet 
1 
What does today's telecommunicating depend on
7
2 
What are the words used to describe today's standard telephone service
7 
3-4 What are TWO main requirements to make new services accessible
7
Question 5-8 
Decide which of the following statements according to the text are true T, false F 
or for which there is insufficient evidence IE and write T, F or IE in the spaces 
numbered 5-8 on the answer sheet 
5 
The customer access network does not include any physical connections 
6 
Multiplexing reduces the need for numerous physical links between 
exchanges 
7 
There are three main ways of making connections across the core network 
8 
There is a limit to the number of telephone conversations that may take place 
at any given time 
Question* 9-14 
Decide which of the following features refer to present, past (traditional) or future 
technology and write P for present, T for past (traditional) or F for future in 
spaces 
numbered 9-14 on your answer sheet One has been done for you as an example 
Example 
Answer
64 bits/sec transmission channel 
P
9 
video on demand 
10 analogue transmission 
1 1 Pulse Code Modulation 
12 fibre optic cable in core network 
13 digital exchange 
14 use of fibre optic cable in customer access network 
demand However this final step Irom the local
new services is well established can the cost of
e\v.hang(. to the customer is an expensive one, large scale deployment of fibre optic cable in 
due tii the large number of connections 
the customer network be justified
invoked Onl) uhen the demand for these

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QUESTIONS 15-27 
YOH 
are advised to spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15-27 which refer to 
Reading 
Passage 2 below 
READING PASSAGE 2 
Characteristics of Open and Distance Learning
Open learning is generally seen as a goal of 
education, characterised by increasing 
flexibility of methodological and 
administrative practices in the interests of 
maximising the options and support available 
for students Distance teaching is characterised 
by four things 1) the need to individualise 
learning, 2) the use of a range of teaching and 
supervisory strategies which are not primarily 
face to-face, 3) the need to determine, in 
advance of teaching, the activities, interactions 
and resources necessary to achieve the 
purposes of a course unit or subject, and 4) an 
openness to the educational possibilities 
afforded by developments in computer and 
communications technologies 
R
• the complexity of the administrative 
arrangements which support the learning 
program 
• the extent to which the lecturer can 
influence the learning environment of the 
student 
The university believes that good teaching 
requires that these distinctive characteristics be 
recognised 
n
The ma]or educational distinction between on- 
campus and distance teaching is the reliance on 
group-based strategies in the former and the 
obligation to individualise instruction in the 
latter These individualised strategies also need 
to be supported by a compatible administrate e 
system For academics whose experience is 
primarily of study on-campus, there is some 
challenge in distance education, because the 
assumptions which underpin individualised 
learning may be quite different from those with 
which they are familiar The Distance 
Education Centre provides support to 
academics who are teaching students at a 
distance with the aim of helping them 
understand the different demands of this kind 
of leaching 
r
Perhaps the most critical element of this view 
of distance education is the reliance it places on 
students taking a greater degree of 
responsibility for their own learning than is 
generally the case for on-campus study This 
expectation sits reasonably comfortably with 
elements of adult learning theories uhich 
encourage respect for students and their 
experience as well as the familiar patterns of 
higher degree study 
F
It is important to understand that there is a 
general movement in higher education towards 
the individualisation of learning generally Old 
distinctions between internal and external 
enrolments will have less meaning oxer time as 
the range of resources and strategies in both 
on-campus and distance teaching are 
increasingly shared between these modes 
While some administrative distinctions will 
necessarily prevail, the characteristics of good 
teaching will increasingly be those which allow 
individual students to pursue their studies in 
flexible and supportive ways
Major differences between the teaching modes 
result from the following factors 
• the logistics of communication 
• the degree to which the lecturer is able to 
respond to student input 
• the role of peer-group influence 
• student access to learning resources

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Questions 15-19 
In the box below is a list of headings for the 5 paragraphs of Reading Passage 2. 
Choose the appropriate heading for each paragraph and write the corresponding 
number i-vii in the spaces numbered 15-19 on the answer sheet. 
Note that there are more headings than you need. 
15. Paragraph A 
16. Paragraph B 
17. Paragraph C 
18. Paragraph D 
19. Paragraph E 
List of Headings 
i Anticipated changes in course delivery 
ii Factors influencing the differences between on-campus and distance 
teaching 
iii Problems experienced by academics 
iv Why support is important 
v How academics adjust to distance teaching 
vi Student responsibility 
vii The main features of teaching at a distance
Questions 20-27 
The major characteristics of on-campus and distance learning are listed below, 
together with those features which are common to both modes. Sort them into 
their groups and write either OC (On-Campus), DL (Distance Learning) or BM 
(common to Both Modes) in the spaces numbered 20-27 on the answer sheet. One 
has been done for you as an example. 
Example: 
Answer:
The lecturer does not see the students. 
DL
20. There are opportunities for the exploitation of communications technologies. 
21. The lecturer is able to treat the class as a group. 
22. Academics may experience difficulty with a different mode of delivery. 
23. The teaching methods are familiar. 

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24. Administrative and support services need to consider students' personal 
learning needs. 
25. Students need to be independent learners. 
26. Individual students are encouraged to pursue their studies in the ways 
which suit them best. 
27. There is increasing flexibility in the way students are encouraged to 
achieve 
their goals. 

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QUESTIONS 28-39 
Yon ate advised to spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-39 which refer to 
Reading 
Passage 3 below