{"id":1321,"date":"2016-05-14T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2016-05-14T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:26:17","slug":"national-5-two-weeks-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/2016\/05\/14\/national-5-two-weeks-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"National 5 &#8211; Two weeks to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have now sat English and Maths, I hope they went well for you. You have other exams coming up including\u00a0Computing 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files_ccc\/QuestionPaperBriefN5ComputingScience.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">structure of the paper <\/a>one more time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1322\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/05\/N5.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1322\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/2016\/05\/14\/national-5-two-weeks-to-go\/n5-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/05\/N5.png\" data-orig-size=\"641,509\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"N5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/glow-prod-nl.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/05\/N5-300x238.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&amp;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEKn%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJGMEQCIC%2FrNHej2MpLMP25pNbWl3pAI%2FLFZPSWA4%2FDSpY9KhIsAiAzi5RAdn%2FeNDErTmQjIvxCZHdHurqOc8umfcgeb4P4iyq5BQhxEAUaDDI3MzU3MDE5NTQzMyIMqF5wfgMsB4CqYtbhKpYFvYy8%2FYXmqfEwJ9dKyqj9KqR8iccRxnCTxfPyWX0XY0f2dnF6EZ9K1FWzVfyscX58UezbTcJFPQC8meqRKN0TQm7DiH6ouKZe2q3N54KiOHLX21mbflYnnj2kkeNBpnP7DRrSfNhpEwJmywKEG1OLb%2FMcx12zlIO2%2FZlyGO7pMHN4cvj1qR%2BDG8imMKHBj5vspcfQMysd3IV6p3oVZE1udIIssWmdouONQD3xD6r%2BEBAt8GcENGHD7GDGjesg%2BRlGSQZ3TgW2GAaYwYV2uIIWtDOq31SDIkQOwfogmSRHp3rCaiUDcFdbHEAKKPueNMisXGlYH%2BWdV5sE3jPWBYfOTBfXS9MDmbGjyY6s7kD6UL96TnGi9ZABy0fis9JRp5lwbdQq4xtO%2B3faskOVhsfZYYU8x9gp9VOLVu8%2FBOYf2odEik3EOVruAWb4TRf9fORO0vnGk3i90ZYaGoGFa3yIu9wS%2B4d34yozxbBJg5vh8yV5N%2B0xMRU0MsIO3UMvX0ZjhnUwzKfSCp4PvPad9B%2BTUil6nh%2BVe0NHMmuSU9sErehw1jTqPdnCvmvSIFO%2FPg%2BVL8kjmcnbd0ivue1RFnUCopJ8g6ydyKynmsfbC2nM8DIWJGpJwC%2BgpPbH%2FdXqZ9AHTFlVsR4CqEWYFbC16x5zDF4JGK9noh7Y18DdYWeUhqP67gRaq3tBIy5NRL%2FkAoilr63KUcciu51%2FsXLdHMxuYkypz%2B1vbrmf2pdBtG%2BUPH9wktlz9i2kxCA1CH7bquY7%2BJxB2XCunphUr2LEgGbJi%2F0LZ2FzCEfqL2xNDlf8vJ62MASm0kMkEw%2BYnYSRYNjrYwmsT8K0A7ZKW8d%2BGFkA4PUut7CLbdS8ojfRkGNPPjsKdXOBm4ww966%2B1QY6sgElLmVAHSzkvjKAWIs3paS3WgSVm9mxr9BiLTapnEoNcJvXoNNtO%2FTker07nioNk37YpQ4oyHaqEcuxc8EMjnIy0xC1IqG9LY%2BVyJF3%2FLg6nG2%2F2FszHJaxSulrTRr3H7V1Et2EfLvrb0QmGDS0D3TmsudiUsDVYSJqXKnUIyUNidfBytp16PJu%2BZbsjFGUQd%2FHS2fSSjATWdFKFLEuUtQHM7uHicBs5A%2B0xcJdwE5B6Bb%2B&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47U3E2YOTMV%2F20260920%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260920T084431Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=900&amp;X-Amz-Signature=dc8b2be4a211c24ec72d824921b4f42c835b55c27e99ec7fbe540361c023f0cf\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/05\/N5.png\" class=\"wp-image-1322 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/05\/N5.png\" alt=\"N5 exam breakdown\" width=\"641\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/05\/N5.png 641w, https:\/\/glow-prod-nl.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/05\/N5-150x119.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&amp;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEKn%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJGMEQCIC%2FrNHej2MpLMP25pNbWl3pAI%2FLFZPSWA4%2FDSpY9KhIsAiAzi5RAdn%2FeNDErTmQjIvxCZHdHurqOc8umfcgeb4P4iyq5BQhxEAUaDDI3MzU3MDE5NTQzMyIMqF5wfgMsB4CqYtbhKpYFvYy8%2FYXmqfEwJ9dKyqj9KqR8iccRxnCTxfPyWX0XY0f2dnF6EZ9K1FWzVfyscX58UezbTcJFPQC8meqRKN0TQm7DiH6ouKZe2q3N54KiOHLX21mbflYnnj2kkeNBpnP7DRrSfNhpEwJmywKEG1OLb%2FMcx12zlIO2%2FZlyGO7pMHN4cvj1qR%2BDG8imMKHBj5vspcfQMysd3IV6p3oVZE1udIIssWmdouONQD3xD6r%2BEBAt8GcENGHD7GDGjesg%2BRlGSQZ3TgW2GAaYwYV2uIIWtDOq31SDIkQOwfogmSRHp3rCaiUDcFdbHEAKKPueNMisXGlYH%2BWdV5sE3jPWBYfOTBfXS9MDmbGjyY6s7kD6UL96TnGi9ZABy0fis9JRp5lwbdQq4xtO%2B3faskOVhsfZYYU8x9gp9VOLVu8%2FBOYf2odEik3EOVruAWb4TRf9fORO0vnGk3i90ZYaGoGFa3yIu9wS%2B4d34yozxbBJg5vh8yV5N%2B0xMRU0MsIO3UMvX0ZjhnUwzKfSCp4PvPad9B%2BTUil6nh%2BVe0NHMmuSU9sErehw1jTqPdnCvmvSIFO%2FPg%2BVL8kjmcnbd0ivue1RFnUCopJ8g6ydyKynmsfbC2nM8DIWJGpJwC%2BgpPbH%2FdXqZ9AHTFlVsR4CqEWYFbC16x5zDF4JGK9noh7Y18DdYWeUhqP67gRaq3tBIy5NRL%2FkAoilr63KUcciu51%2FsXLdHMxuYkypz%2B1vbrmf2pdBtG%2BUPH9wktlz9i2kxCA1CH7bquY7%2BJxB2XCunphUr2LEgGbJi%2F0LZ2FzCEfqL2xNDlf8vJ62MASm0kMkEw%2BYnYSRYNjrYwmsT8K0A7ZKW8d%2BGFkA4PUut7CLbdS8ojfRkGNPPjsKdXOBm4ww966%2B1QY6sgElLmVAHSzkvjKAWIs3paS3WgSVm9mxr9BiLTapnEoNcJvXoNNtO%2FTker07nioNk37YpQ4oyHaqEcuxc8EMjnIy0xC1IqG9LY%2BVyJF3%2FLg6nG2%2F2FszHJaxSulrTRr3H7V1Et2EfLvrb0QmGDS0D3TmsudiUsDVYSJqXKnUIyUNidfBytp16PJu%2BZbsjFGUQd%2FHS2fSSjATWdFKFLEuUtQHM7uHicBs5A%2B0xcJdwE5B6Bb%2B&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47U3E2YOTMV%2F20260920%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260920T084431Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=900&amp;X-Amz-Signature=b501d1f3eaab23dae4a9136afa5e6d9ad4f7b62c493579b2d362367d789b2c82 150w, https:\/\/glow-prod-nl.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/05\/N5-300x238.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&amp;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEKn%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJGMEQCIC%2FrNHej2MpLMP25pNbWl3pAI%2FLFZPSWA4%2FDSpY9KhIsAiAzi5RAdn%2FeNDErTmQjIvxCZHdHurqOc8umfcgeb4P4iyq5BQhxEAUaDDI3MzU3MDE5NTQzMyIMqF5wfgMsB4CqYtbhKpYFvYy8%2FYXmqfEwJ9dKyqj9KqR8iccRxnCTxfPyWX0XY0f2dnF6EZ9K1FWzVfyscX58UezbTcJFPQC8meqRKN0TQm7DiH6ouKZe2q3N54KiOHLX21mbflYnnj2kkeNBpnP7DRrSfNhpEwJmywKEG1OLb%2FMcx12zlIO2%2FZlyGO7pMHN4cvj1qR%2BDG8imMKHBj5vspcfQMysd3IV6p3oVZE1udIIssWmdouONQD3xD6r%2BEBAt8GcENGHD7GDGjesg%2BRlGSQZ3TgW2GAaYwYV2uIIWtDOq31SDIkQOwfogmSRHp3rCaiUDcFdbHEAKKPueNMisXGlYH%2BWdV5sE3jPWBYfOTBfXS9MDmbGjyY6s7kD6UL96TnGi9ZABy0fis9JRp5lwbdQq4xtO%2B3faskOVhsfZYYU8x9gp9VOLVu8%2FBOYf2odEik3EOVruAWb4TRf9fORO0vnGk3i90ZYaGoGFa3yIu9wS%2B4d34yozxbBJg5vh8yV5N%2B0xMRU0MsIO3UMvX0ZjhnUwzKfSCp4PvPad9B%2BTUil6nh%2BVe0NHMmuSU9sErehw1jTqPdnCvmvSIFO%2FPg%2BVL8kjmcnbd0ivue1RFnUCopJ8g6ydyKynmsfbC2nM8DIWJGpJwC%2BgpPbH%2FdXqZ9AHTFlVsR4CqEWYFbC16x5zDF4JGK9noh7Y18DdYWeUhqP67gRaq3tBIy5NRL%2FkAoilr63KUcciu51%2FsXLdHMxuYkypz%2B1vbrmf2pdBtG%2BUPH9wktlz9i2kxCA1CH7bquY7%2BJxB2XCunphUr2LEgGbJi%2F0LZ2FzCEfqL2xNDlf8vJ62MASm0kMkEw%2BYnYSRYNjrYwmsT8K0A7ZKW8d%2BGFkA4PUut7CLbdS8ojfRkGNPPjsKdXOBm4ww966%2B1QY6sgElLmVAHSzkvjKAWIs3paS3WgSVm9mxr9BiLTapnEoNcJvXoNNtO%2FTker07nioNk37YpQ4oyHaqEcuxc8EMjnIy0xC1IqG9LY%2BVyJF3%2FLg6nG2%2F2FszHJaxSulrTRr3H7V1Et2EfLvrb0QmGDS0D3TmsudiUsDVYSJqXKnUIyUNidfBytp16PJu%2BZbsjFGUQd%2FHS2fSSjATWdFKFLEuUtQHM7uHicBs5A%2B0xcJdwE5B6Bb%2B&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47U3E2YOTMV%2F20260920%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260920T084431Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=900&amp;X-Amz-Signature=dc8b2be4a211c24ec72d824921b4f42c835b55c27e99ec7fbe540361c023f0cf 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breakdown of National 5 exam by topic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/education\/guides\/zy38d2p\/revision\" target=\"_blank\">Explaining code &amp;\u00a0writing code<\/a> (16 marks just here) &#8211; selection (if), repetition (while, for), sequence, etc<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/education\/guides\/zghbgk7\/revision\" target=\"_blank\">data types and structures<\/a> &#8211; Real, Integer, Arrays, Strings, Boolean<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/education\/guides\/zthbgk7\/revision\" target=\"_blank\">Low level operations and computer architectur<\/a>e &#8211; Translators, Binary, Control Unit, Arithmetic and Logic Unit, Registers, etc<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/education\/guides\/zxwmxnb\/revision\" target=\"_blank\">Databases<\/a> &#8211; fields types, searching, sorting, etc<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/education\/guides\/z9tyvcw\/revision\" target=\"_blank\">Website design<\/a> &#8211; HTML, hyperlinks, images, etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That means that these 6 topics make up over 50%\u00a0of the exam. Make sure when you undertake your studies that you spend enough time on the high mark areas. However, don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have now sat English and Maths, I hope they went well for you. You have other exams coming up including\u00a0Computing 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17013,475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-5","category-revision"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2016\/03\/Nat5.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}