National 5 Computing - this Wednesday

Original post by ///curious

Anyone have an idea of what might come up?

To be honest, I'm finding the past papers are hard and the marking scheme is very specific.

How about everyone else?

omg im finding the past papers hard as well plus my computing teacher took a lot of days off so we barely finished the assesments and coursework in time.

This is my first exam so im soo nervous :O

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Reply 2

I have no idea what could be in it. If you look at this report, you might find clues as last year's Physics report said there would be more explanation type questions and there was so it might be the same with Computing.

Report: http://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/ComputingScienceNational5CR2014.pdf

Reply 3

Good luck to everyone doing this exam tomoz!!!

Reply 4

ROC10

I sat N5 Computing Science last year and found it pretty easy. I got 96% in my prelim and got an A for the exam.

Like you, I found the marking schemes to be very specific and often found when doing practice papers I was marking myself very lowly. However, I did know most of the knowledge pretty well (a lot of it is often common sense) and markers with professional experience will likely understand what you are trying to say.

As for the coding questions, just try to be confident in your approach to them. They're all very similar.

Good luck to all of you! I'm sure you'll do well. :smile:

Reply 5

Higherdude

The final exam is easy to be honest. My school marked our assignments harshly because they were getting verified. I got something like 75 percent in the exam and 60 percent in the assignment. So i just missed an A. I hate assignments really.

Reply 6

The exam was hard for me... hopefully I scored enough for a pass :frown:

Reply 7

the exam was actually pretty OK, a few hard questions, but overall it was good :smile:

Reply 8

i got 58/60 in the assignment so its in the bag !

Reply 9

I think it was a well done fair exam, my assignment was quite harshly marked but think I did enough for A/B. A few weird questions I had to guess and some difficult ones though

Reply 10

Original post by KG101

I think it was a well done fair exam, my assignment was quite harshly marked but think I did enough for A/B. A few weird questions I had to guess and some difficult ones though

Did anyone get the line 7 question about the programme.. I had no idea what to write

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you had to do area of wall divided by area of brick so multiply length and breadth to get area

Reply 12

what did you write for the problem with the design with the boxes

Reply 13

Original post by yaseen_15

what did you write for the problem with the design with the boxes

No idea which question that is, please don't say I missed it out :confused:

Reply 14

do you think they will bring the percentage mark down for an A or was it normal or as it easy - how much is an A?

Reply 15

Original post by yaseen_15

do you think they will bring the percentage mark down for an A or was it normal or as it easy - how much is an A?

It'll probably be 105/150 imo

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