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Hi sorry to interrupt, but I see you have the nat 5 paper, I was wondering if you could perhaps post the Higher paper if you get a hold of it?
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Original post by qasim-98
Hi sorry to interrupt, but I see you have the nat 5 paper, I was wondering if you could perhaps post the Higher paper if you get a hold of it?


Yeah sure, if I get it I'll post it here
Original post by S_x_x
Yeah sure, if I get it I'll post it here


Thanks a lot :smile:
Original post by S_x_x
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Thanks so much dude ! :biggrin:
Original post by qasim-98
Thanks a lot :smile:


Looking at the NAT5 Picture's he has posted what do you think of the paper ?
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Original post by Ethan100
Looking at the NAT5 Picture's he has posted what do you think of the paper ?


I don't think it was THAT hard, the ISDD stuff was at a pretty good standard, but the Software development stuff looks tough.
Original post by S_x_x
I don't think it was THAT hard, the ISDD stuff was at a pretty good standard, but the Software development stuff looks tough.


Yeah I agree with you there. There was a lot of big sections missing too.

For example, Translators and Networks. I can only remember 1 question for each of these sections which could have easily of been guessed without knowledge.

I do believe I could have done better so I'm hoping people found some questions difficult :P haha
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Original post by qasim-98
Thanks a lot :smile:


Seeing since you done higher, what do you think of this N5 paper?
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Original post by Ethan100
Yeah I agree with you there. There was a lot of big sections missing too.

For example, Translators and Networks. I can only remember 1 question for each of these sections which could have easily of been guessed without knowledge.


I'm only in S3, so got some time to look over this. How did your coursework go ?
Original post by S_x_x
I'm only in S3, so got some time to look over this. How did your coursework go ?


It was alright actually, I got 51/60.Judging by last year's A grade boundary I need about 60 marks in the exam to get an A. You are very lucky to be looking at this stuff in s3. In my school when I was in S3 we were doing nothing that had to do with what we were learning in S4.

Bring dem pics
Original post by qasim-98
Hi sorry to interrupt, but I see you have the nat 5 paper, I was wondering if you could perhaps post the Higher paper if you get a hold of it?


Tbh I thought the higher paper was a wreck.
My teacher didn't teach us so much stuff that was in it, he didn't tell us about sub classes and classes, record structures in programming or how to do that database question and how the message would be displayed.



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Original post by RossB1702
Tbh I thought the higher paper was a wreck.
My teacher didn't teach us so much stuff that was in it, he didn't tell us about sub classes and classes, record structures in programming or how to do that database question and how the message would be displayed.



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Some teachers are SOOO BAD !

To be honest there wasn't even point in a teacher for my N5 class. We were studying alone out of a book most of the time.
Original post by Ethan100
Some teachers are SOOO BAD !

To be honest there wasn't even point in a teacher for my N5 class. We were studying alone out of a book most of the time.


Yeah my brother was doing Nat 5 last year and he got a terrible teacher and he didn't teach them very well at all.
He didn't even teach his class about the full of computer architecture haha.
He had to self teach himself about the buses and CPU components. He had to borrow my notes as I had a different teacher last year.


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Original post by RossB1702
Tbh I thought the higher paper was a wreck.
My teacher didn't teach us so much stuff that was in it, he didn't tell us about sub classes and classes, record structures in programming or how to do that database question and how the message would be displayed.



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Really? My friend got 9 As at N5, took computing higher and said it was quite easy
Original post by Ethan100
Some teachers are SOOO BAD !

To be honest there wasn't even point in a teacher for my N5 class. We were studying alone out of a book most of the time.


For real though there was like 16 marks worth of questions that my teacher didn't teach us that came up in that exam.


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Original post by S_x_x
Really? My friend got 9 As at N5, took computing higher and said it was quite easy


Yeah he probably had a good teacher. My teacher never taught us some stuff and it came up in the exam.

Most of Nat 5s are easy tbh so I wouldn't be overly proud of them, they get you to college not uni. I got 5As and a B at Nat 5, you were only allowed to sit 7 Nat 5s in my school.


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Original post by Ethan100
I was recently introduced to scholar ? Do you use it ?


Nah I never used it I had my own book for Nat 5.


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We got given a book to study from, but our teacher explains everything fully :biggrin:
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Original post by RossB1702
Nah I never used it I had my own book for Nat 5.


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What book was it? BrightRed?
Original post by S_x_x
What book was it? BrightRed?


Just the how to pass book.


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