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.
![N5 exam breakdown](https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/public/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience/uploads/sites/12638/2016/05/N5.png)
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.