Why is computer science A-level so hard?

Like even just the essays themselves? How do you tackle them?

The essays aren't bad...I'm god awful at SQL. For the essays, you need to know contextual information. I study the news a decent bit (particularly the tech side of things) and that tends to give me good stuff to talk about. The essay stuff is just common sense so you just need to think logically and you'll come to an answer. If you want, PM me a question and I"ll break down what I would do to answer the question.