AQA A-level Computer Science Paper 2 (7517/2) - 19th June 2023 [Exam Chat]

hey guys how is everyones revision going?

okay, slowly but surely working through my notemaking (porbably quite late to be revising but ive struggled a lot with computing these past few months)

if you want to make good revision resources in the short amount of time left, go on isaac computing and then make anki flashcards from the content on there, or use craig n dave videos.

do flashcards, do questions, read flashcards n repeat for every topic

do the past papers with some space in between and you can be fine, just note that the 2022 exam paper was really easy so if u do that exam as practice just remember that it is not going to be that easy this year, but no worries since it will be easier than previous but similar boundaries to that of 2019 (lower)

thank you so much for the advice

For the big marked open ended questions like for CH8 consequences of uses of computing for example, how should we structure our answers? I've assumed we make a paragraph on each bullet point that comes up in these styles of questions?

anyone have any predictions on what may come up?? i have a bad feeling we’ll get a lengthy assembly language questions haha

Do any of the paper 1 topics come up on paper 2? Or have we just learnt all those useless abstraction definitions, hash tables, graphs, trees, Dijkstra's, sorting and searching algorithms, vectors, RPN for nothing.

If anyone has advice, resources or anything for 12 mark questions please post them here. As detailed as possible please, my teacher hasn't talked about them once!! Like how do you first approach them, what tricks are there in the wording of the question, what structure to use, how much to write and how many points to make. Cheers in advance!

i would love a big assembly question that takes a big chunk out of the possible marks for other stuff that is harder, i just hope we dont get a bunch of essays and we get some smaller separate questions instead

Is there a method to get better and high in these? like write/think of a pseudocode answer then rewrite it with assembly language but to me doing the pseudocode part seems a waste of time so not sure if theres easier ways?

If these are 2019 grade boundaries like its predicted I'm gonna be on the ropes, calculating what I think I got on paper 1 I need like 90% on this paper for a B.

same, if the grade boundaries took into account that most comp sci teachers cannot teach then life would be a lot less stressful

It's kind of crazy because I know my teachers in particular would probably complain if we do bad but the effort on their part to actually teach us has been near 0.