AQA COMP3 June 2012 Exam Thread

this is a stupid question, but I havent done an AQA exam in ages (since may 2010) so I don't remember what they are like

when drawing diagrams (like an inheritance diagram, for example), would it be okay to draw in pencil? or should you draw in pen?

Id initially draw it in pencil so if any mistakes occur i can rub it out and then go over in pen to ensure when the papers are photocopied the data is not lost :/

AQA Comp 3 is the only exam im not ready for

I'm going to be using these to help me revise, they are questions from the Old Spec Past papers categorised into the new spec modules. The Questions won't be exactly the same, but they are quite close

http://www.starteractivity.com/ictlesson/computing/comp3/cc2qa1.html

that's good, but some questions are just parts of questions where the explanation at the beginning is left out, so you don't know what they are talking about

The AQA website has a document matching old spec. questions to the new topics here, and the old spec papers from 2001-2005 are available under Teacher Resource Bank > Old specification Question Papers, Mark Schemes and Reports here

and of course 2006-end of old spec is available in the '6511 materials' tab of the computing page

My Link is exactly what you've posted, except this gives the actual questions and answers, rather than just referencing the Paper and Question. Try taking a look first

Dreading this exam... it also is on the same day as my other main A2 exam which doesn't help.

I don't know if you guys are aware of this though, but results for this exam get scaled up quite a bit.
For example, 70/100 raw mark is an A, 60/100 raw mark is a B and so forth... so hopefully this will help us...
http://web.aqa.org.uk/UMS/index.php

I really need a B overall, I worked my socks off to get an A in my COMP4, but knowing my luck, coursework will most probably get marked down too lol

yeah, that's the one good thing about this exam, but I'm trying not to think about that because it'll only make me work less for it if I have a 'oh well it'll get scaled up' mindset

I also need at least a B, and I have no idea what my (provisional) coursework mark was...........

hopefully it is kind to us, but not too kind that it isn't scaled up much

WOW after i started looking at the exam questions.... this exam is actually hard
Wish my teachers could teach and we have not even finished the syllabus WTF... duno why we spent soo much time on projects when this unit has sooo much content within it.
Luckly i got a A in comp 2, and 4 and hoping for a A in comp 1.... so i think i need like a D or a C to get my overall B and thats about 50-62 marks out of 100

You see what worries me is that my teacher has no idea how UMS works.
He casually gave us a piece of paper stating our COMP2 UMS mark, COMP1 UMS mark & COMP4 RAW mark then casually worked out the average and gave us a percentage lol

When I told him he had to convert the COMP4 RAW mark out of 75 to 80 since COMP4 is 40% of the course, he looked at me like I was mad and said I am complicating things.

He also said that he marked cwk harsh last year and marks went up... I hope he actually means the RAW marks went up and didn't assume marks went up because cwk marks are scaled up by 5 marks for UMS...

well let's hope it was the raw marks went up...

my teacher was the opposite for the 1st A2 year of the new spec - he said his cw was marked down no idea what happened last year as I was out of school, but I hope it doesn't get marked down again...

unrelated, but it sucks that this exam ends at like 4pm... I'm the only one in my school doing it too so it'll be me and a couple of random invigilators in a huge sports hall until 4pm