OCR QUALIFICATIONS AND COURSES
Email the course tutor Caron or telephone 0116 232 5166

OCR (RSA) Examinations available include:

OCR  Text Production and Word Processing Level 1 Qualification Course  (RSA I) 

This course of 20 hours study time is suitable for those who wish to pass OCR examinations in Word Processing and/or Text Production.  You will be supplied with comprehensive training materials, (which also include exercises).  Sets of assessment papers will also be supplied for you to complete and return for marking by a fully qualified OCR marking co-ordinator.  Your marked work is returned to you with feedback and instructions as to how to proceed.  We provide additional help and support you might require through the telephone or email.

Pre-Requisites:  You should be able to type at about 25 words per minute and be a reasonably proficient user of a suitable word processing application such as Microsoft Word version 2000 or XP (or similar).  

Course Content: The course involves typing, word processing and printing a variety of business documents including, letters, reports and memoranda.  It also includes learning abbreviations and presentation techniques, inserting Headers and Footers, moving and copying text, emphasising text and changing the line length.

For further information and the full list of the course contents - email the course tutor Caron or telephone 0116 232 5166.

OCR  Text Production and Word Processing Level 2 Qualification Course  (RSA II) 

This course of 20 hours study time is suitable for those who wish to pass the OCR / RSA examinations at Level 2 in Word Processing and Text Production.  Once enrolled on the course we will supply you with comprehensive training materials and instructions as to how to proceed.  Sets of assessment papers will also be supplied for you to complete and return for marking by a fully qualified OCR marking co-ordinator.  Your marked work is returned to you with feedback and instructions as to how to proceed.  Choose to learn at home / through distance learning.  We provide any additional help and support you might require through the telephone or email.  

Pre-Requisites:  You should be able to type at 35 words per minute or more and be a proficient user of Microsoft Word version 2000 or XP (or similar).  For distance learning a recent pass at OCR Level 1 is desirable but not essential.

Course Content:  The aim of the course is to assess your ability to produce a variety of routine and specialist business documents from handwritten and typewritten drafts, and recalled text.  These will include:  letters, reports, articles, notices for display, tables, chronological lists of alphabetical and numerical information, memorandums, standard documents using recalled text from phrase files.

The course also includes learning abbreviations and presentation techniques, changing the line length, making corrections, inserting Headers and Footers, moving and copying text, emphasising text, creating tables and sorting within tables, inserting standard phrases.

The overall aim of the award is to meet the business document production requirements of the discerning employer and to give you the opportunity to demonstrate competence to the level demanded for NVQ Administration Level 2 / OCR Intermediate Text Production.

For further information and the full list of the course contents - email the course tutor Caron or telephone 0116 232 5166.

OCR  Text Production and Word Processing Level 3 Qualification Course (RSA III) 

This course of 20 hours study time is suitable for those who wish to pass the OCR / RSA examinations at Level 3 in Word Processing and Text Production.  Once enrolled on the course we will supply you with comprehensive training materials and instructions as to how to proceed.  Sets of assessment papers will also be supplied for you to complete and return for marking by a fully qualified OCR marking co-ordinator.  Your marked work is returned to you with feedback and instructions as to how to proceed.  Choose to learn at home / through distance learning.  We provide any additional help and support you might require through the telephone or email.  

Pre-Requisites:  For this course the pre-requisites are necessary.  A good level of English is essential and you must have recently passed OCR Level 2 Word Processing and Text Production examinations.  You should also be able to type at 50 to 55 words per minute and be a proficient user of Microsoft Word version 2000 (or similar), including tables.

Course Content:  The aim of the course is to assess your ability to produce a variety of complex and specialist business documents involving technical terminology from handwritten and typewritten drafts, and recalled text.  These will include multi-page letters, multi-page reports, two-column articles, notices for display, landscaped tables and memorandums.

You will also be required to display work to conform to directions given concerning style of presentation: line spacing (i.e. single/double); emphasis (e.g. emboldening, underlining, capital, etc); insetting from the left-hand margin and centering over the typing line.  Also:

Inserting Footnotes.  Correcting unmarked spelling errors, errors of punctuation (including apostrophes) and errors of agreement.  Copying part of a previously stored document to a specified location within a separate document.  Paginating documents as instructed.  Changing Fonts and/or Typeface.  Creating tables with differing numbers of columns from information in a data sheet.  Presenting information as shown in draft, or as instructed.  Producing extra copies and indicating routing as instructed. 

The overall aim of the award is to meet the business document production requirements of the discerning employer and to give you the opportunity to demonstrate competence to the level demanded for OCR Level 3 Text Production.

For further information and the full list of the course contents - email the course tutor Caron or telephone 0116 232 5166.