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ICT Cambridge IGCSE Syllabus Updates(2023-2025)

Starting from 2023

-The no. of topics didn’t change, they’re still 21 chapters

-There are changes to the marks and duration of each paper

There’re 3 papers:

-Paper 1:

  • Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes instead of 2 hours
  • Grades: 80 marks instead of 100 marks
  • % :40% of the total marks
  • Exam Details: Theoretical Paper

-Paper 2:     

  • Duration: 2 hours,15 minutes instead of 2 hours, 30 minutes
  • Grades:70 marks instead of 80 marks
  • % :30% of the total marks
  • Exam Details: Practical paper- Document Production, Databases and Presentations,

-Paper 3:

  • Duration: 2 hours,15 minutes instead of 2 hours, 30 minutes
  • Grades:70 marks instead of 80 marks
  • % :30% of the total marks
  • Exam Details: Practical paper- Spreadsheets and Website Authoring

Changes to Syllabus:

Changes to the structure or titles of areas of study include the following:

  • Modelling applications
  • Computer-controlled systems
  • Copyright
  • Create or edit a document
  • Tables
  • Headers and footers
  • Databases
  • Spreadsheets

New areas of study include:

21.2 Create a web page:

  • Use of metatags
  • video controls
  • Apply classes to elements within a web page

21.3 Use Stylesheets

Characteristics of a style and a class including the difference between them

Create classes including:

  • background properties including colour, images
  • font properties
  • table, table row and table data properties including size, background colour, horizontal and vertical alignment, spacing, padding, borders (collapsed, colour, thickness, visible/invisible)

Topics in the current syllabus which will no longer be covered include:

  • Effects of IT on employment
  • Data handling applications
  • Applications in manufacturing industries
  • Computers in libraries
  • Monitoring and tracking systems
  • Mail merge
  • Test the data model(In Data Analysis Chapter)