Eduqas A-Level Computer Science Component 1 (10th of June 2024)

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Seeing as there isn't one already, I've decided to create this exam chat so that people can help each other with revision for the A Level exam and to discuss the exam afterwards.

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Adeal

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Resources
These flashcard explains everything you need to know for the exam.

https://quizlet.com/adeal_/folders/computer-science-eduqas-a-levels-compornent-1?funnelUUID=a83a37a7-32ef-4695-bf58-af33dbfd5a5f

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B.G_

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https://theteacher.info/index.php/key-stage-5/eduqas-computer-science-2016

This website as well as adacomputerscience.org are quite useful for finding content to revise from.

Reply 3

B.G_

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What do you think the last , long question is going to be?

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B.G_

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Also the algorithm is likely to be either bubble sort or quicksort because they haven't been done in a while. It cannot be insertion sort because they did that last year

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B.G_

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Original post by B.G_

Also the algorithm is likely to be either bubble sort or quicksort because they haven't been done in a while. It cannot be insertion sort because they did that last year

Sorry i meant binary search not bubble sort. It appears that the algorithms appear roughly every 4 years. Binary search was 2020 and quicksort was 2021

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Adeal

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Original post by B.G_

https://theteacher.info/index.php/key-stage-5/eduqas-computer-science-2016
This website as well as adacomputerscience.org are quite useful for finding content to revise from.

How did you do on component 3?

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B.G_

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Original post by Adeal

How did you do on component 3?

I got 70/100, wbu?

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l.barlos

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Thought there wasnt one of these seeing as like 3% take eduquas.
Have they ever asked the long awnser question on professional conduct in the industry? wouldnt be surprised if its that or something about AI seeing how big of a topic it is currently

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B.G_

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Original post by l.barlos

Thought there wasnt one of these seeing as like 3% take eduquas.
Have they ever asked the long awnser question on professional conduct in the industry? wouldnt be surprised if its that or something about AI seeing how big of a topic it is currently

Yea I actually don't know, let me check the past paper question picker someone in the year above coded

Reply 10

B.G_

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Actually I just realised the topic of last question seemed to repeated every 4 years too. 2017 was paradigms and so was 2021

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B.G_

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Yea 2022 was conduct

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l.barlos

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ok cool

what grade u aiming 4?

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Adeal

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Original post by B.G_

What do you think the last , long question is going to be?

Sorry i didn't reply to this earlier, it didn't show

I think it might be about backup and recovery process because it's not in any of the past papers. Or code of conduct for professional behaviour / computer legislation because the moral, ethic, employement about technologies came out last year.

What do you think?

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Adeal

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Original post by B.G_

Sorry i meant binary search not bubble sort. It appears that the algorithms appear roughly every 4 years. Binary search was 2020 and quicksort was 2021

Yes, they might ask about binary search or quick sort; that was also what I was thinking about. Those two are valid but can they ask about linear search algorithm because they've never asked about it before

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Adeal

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Original post by l.barlos

Thought there wasnt one of these seeing as like 3% take eduquas.
Have they ever asked the long awnser question on professional conduct in the industry? wouldnt be surprised if its that or something about AI seeing how big of a topic it is currently

They asked about AI last year

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Adeal

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Original post by B.G_

I got 70/100, wbu?

That's nice, I got 74/100

(edited 1 year ago)

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B.G_

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Original post by Adeal

They asked about AI last year

Did they? I don't remember that. I did the 2023 paper for mocks. I remember I talked about data usage from companies in it and it taking up a large portion of global gdp

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B.G_

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Original post by Adeal

Yes, they might ask about binary search or quick sort; that was also what I was thinking about. Those two are valid but can they ask about linear search algorithm because they've never asked about it before