hi! for the people who have the EAD, what are your predictions based on the tables or any other questions you think they could ask? and also what would be the topics most worth going over in the next couple days in preparation, and anything specific about dastan they could possibly ask based on the skeleton code? i'm not the best at coding and am definitely more confident for paper 2 haha, but any help would be appriciated ! :smile:

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hfjkjkbv3838

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I'm a bit confused on linear queues could someone clarify something for me? Some resources say when an item is removed from the front, all the other items move one space forward and so does the last pointer, but others are saying when the first item is removed from the queue, the front pointer moves back one space creating a gap at the front. I'm not sure which theory to go with.

Reply 86

superstrawberri

Does anyone have the 2022 papers for AQA? Papers 1 & 2

Reply 87

maxbstudent

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Original post by cornesy_t

For section D - how likely is it for a question to come up on creating a new move. Seen a few predictions saying this. I am so scared this exam is gonna be a stinker loool

Very likely I think, but it would be only like 4 marks. All you need to do is update the CreateMoveOptions subroutine

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chowup321

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Original post by hellohello212005

I'm a bit confused on linear queues could someone clarify something for me? Some resources say when an item is removed from the front, all the other items move one space forward and so does the last pointer, but others are saying when the first item is removed from the queue, the front pointer moves back one space creating a gap at the front. I'm not sure which theory to go with.

Those are the 2 seperate ways you can implement a linear queue. They're both valid, however moving all the items up to fill the empty space is processor intensive whereas leaving empty spaces creates memory redundancy

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hfjkjkbv3838

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Original post by chowup321

Those are the 2 seperate ways you can implement a linear queue. They're both valid, however moving all the items up to fill the empty space is processor intensive whereas leaving empty spaces creates memory redundancy

yeah makes sense, with the second problem being the problem that is solved by circular queues. thanks for explaining.

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Dragonco

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Original post by superstrawberri

Does anyone have the 2022 papers for AQA? Papers 1 & 2

I have those but it I can seem to upload a pdf pls send me email address although I don't know if this is correct but I was told by an examiner that its not likely that they choose questions/topics as the main from the most recent year ?

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updown14

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This might be a stupid question but help. For the programming questions and Dastan questions, do you upload screenshots of your edits to your program or copy and paste the program itself into the ead? For all paper 1 tests, I've been putting in screenshots like everyone else in class but heard from somewhere that you need to copy your code in? Teachers haven't ever said anything.....Really confused right now

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Jamber

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Original post by updown14

This might be a stupid question but help. For the programming questions and Dastan questions, do you upload screenshots of your edits to your program or copy and paste the program itself into the ead? For all paper 1 tests, I've been putting in screenshots like everyone else in class but heard from somewhere that you need to copy your code in? Teachers haven't ever said anything.....Really confused right now

Personally, I copy and paste my code into the EAD with the test cases done as screenshots. I'm pretty sure its personal preference, as long as what you put in the document is legible, screenshots or text is fine.

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hfjkjkbv3838

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Original post by updown14

This might be a stupid question but help. For the programming questions and Dastan questions, do you upload screenshots of your edits to your program or copy and paste the program itself into the ead? For all paper 1 tests, I've been putting in screenshots like everyone else in class but heard from somewhere that you need to copy your code in? Teachers haven't ever said anything.....Really confused right now

the way I've understood it is for part a of the coding qs you screenshot all your actual edits to the code (can be multiple screenshots), and for part b (or final part if its a multiple part q) you only screenshot the final user display after inputting all required inputs and the outputs your code displays.

(edited 10 months ago)

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Jamber

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Original post by updown14

This might be a stupid question but help. For the programming questions and Dastan questions, do you upload screenshots of your edits to your program or copy and paste the program itself into the ead? For all paper 1 tests, I've been putting in screenshots like everyone else in class but heard from somewhere that you need to copy your code in? Teachers haven't ever said anything.....Really confused right now

Reply 95

hfjkjkbv3838

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Original post by Jamber

Personally, I copy and paste my code into the EAD with the test cases done as screenshots. I'm pretty sure its personal preference, as long as what you put in the document is legible, screenshots or text is fine.

I have a further q, if I'm stuck with the coding and can't produce a final solution, can I cut all the code and quickly write code that displays what the question requires. I know this is either a mark or no mark situation, more likely to be no mark, but was wondering if its possible that I might actually lose marks for doing this?

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Jamber

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Original post by hellohello212005

I have a further q, if I'm stuck with the coding and can't produce a final solution, can I cut all the code and quickly write code that displays what the question requires. I know this is either a mark or no mark situation, more likely to be no mark, but was wondering if its possible that I might actually lose marks for doing this?

I've always assumed you can do this, theres some discussion of this earlier in the thread and I belive some were saying you lose the marks if the code is incorrect. You could probably only do this for section B, as modifying the output of Dastan would probably be more effort than just completing the task you need to do lol

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ceren_gulsun

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Original post by nopey123

Yeah, whatever they ask cannot interfere with other questions they ask.

I'm not too sure about that, in my college our computer science teacher set us up with different files for different questions, that way there's sure not not be interference between tasks. Although I'm not sure if this is the standard ?

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maxbstudent

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Original post by hellohello212005

I have a further q, if I'm stuck with the coding and can't produce a final solution, can I cut all the code and quickly write code that displays what the question requires. I know this is either a mark or no mark situation, more likely to be no mark, but was wondering if its possible that I might actually lose marks for doing this?

its not marked like that. its not simply full marks if output right and no marks if output wrong. you are marked for the step by step things you do, if the output is incorrect

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umoustafa

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Does anyone have any Section B suggestions. Websites/Predicted questions stuff like that would help alot thanks.

AQA A-level Computer Science Paper 1 (7517 1A - 1E) - 12th June 2023 [Exam Chat]

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