You have now sat English and Maths, I hope they went well for you. You have other exams coming up including Computing Science on the 27th of May. You should have settled into a study routine and be totally organised. I therefore thought that I might go over the structure of the paper one more time.
The table above shows the range of marks available in the paper. You might want to pay close attention to the topics with 8+ marks
- Explaining code & writing code (16 marks just here) – selection (if), repetition (while, for), sequence, etc
- data types and structures – Real, Integer, Arrays, Strings, Boolean
- Low level operations and computer architecture – Translators, Binary, Control Unit, Arithmetic and Logic Unit, Registers, etc
- Databases – fields types, searching, sorting, etc
- Website design – HTML, hyperlinks, images, etc
That means that these 6 topics make up over 50% of the exam. Make sure when you undertake your studies that you spend enough time on the high mark areas. However, don’t forget the other areas as well, the difference between a pass and a fail is just one mark and that mark can come from any topic.
Good luck.
