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GCSE computer science and business

How do you revise for these two subjects? in my mocks, i received a 4 and 5 in each and i want to quickly improve by my November mocks. I don't think i will be sitting paper 2 for computer science but i need a way to learn coding as i am not great at it

I do OCR computer science and edexel business

Reply 1

Original post by yahyesalah
How do you revise for these two subjects? in my mocks, i received a 4 and 5 in each and i want to quickly improve by my November mocks. I don't think i will be sitting paper 2 for computer science but i need a way to learn coding as i am not great at it
I do OCR computer science and edexel business

Practice coding frequently, like 3 or 4 times a week. Edabit has some great challenges. And then do tonnes and tonnes of past paper questions, looking at the mark scheme to check your answers.

Reply 2

Original post by hotpud
Practice coding frequently, like 3 or 4 times a week. Edabit has some great challenges. And then do tonnes and tonnes of past paper questions, looking at the mark scheme to check your answers.

thanks

Reply 3

For business, i recommend doing exam questions ( mainly 6, 9 and 12 markers ) and giving them into your teachers to mark and getting their feedback. Another good way is to watch youtube videos on topics you have forgotten or do not understand ( a good youtuber for this is bizconsesh). In my mocks i was only ever achieving grade 4-5 but in the actual GCSE i managed to get a grade 7 so remember don't give up and just keep on revising!

Reply 4

Original post by xThanika
For business, i recommend doing exam questions ( mainly 6, 9 and 12 markers ) and giving them into your teachers to mark and getting their feedback. Another good way is to watch youtube videos on topics you have forgotten or do not understand ( a good youtuber for this is bizconsesh). In my mocks i was only ever achieving grade 4-5 but in the actual GCSE i managed to get a grade 7 so remember don't give up and just keep on revising!

Thanks for the recommendation

Reply 5

Original post by yahyesalah
How do you revise for these two subjects? in my mocks, i received a 4 and 5 in each and i want to quickly improve by my November mocks. I don't think i will be sitting paper 2 for computer science but i need a way to learn coding as i am not great at it
I do OCR computer science and edexel business

Hi, this is some advice for OCR computer science
You should watch the craig'n'dave videos ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCiOXwirraUAEhj4TUjMxYm4593B2dUPF ) to UNDERSTAND the content.
Then, once you UNDERSTAND it you have to MEMORISE the key points. To do this you should use the OCR SPECIFICATION ( https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/558027-specification-gcse-computer-science-j277.pdf ) to see what is the EXACT content that you need to memorise.
For example if you want study Network topologies you would:
1) Find the video in craigndave and then focus on the key concepts that you want to understand (eg learning the star & mesh networks and how they both have advantages and disadvantages)
2) Then you look in the spec what you need to MEMORISE about them, it says 'Advantages and disadvantages of the Star and Mesh topologies', so you would then make REVISION NOTES about 2/3 adv & dis for both topologies.
3) Then you MEMROISE these notes till you can easily recall them in the exam. To do this you could copy paste them onto a flashcard app like ANKI
4) Now in the exam if you get a question about them your brain will straight away recall the adv/dis's then you can apply it to the question and bag those marks!

If you don't want to make the notes yourself you can find them online from websites like STUVIA (has many revision notes). The ones I used were made by 'CSandRS', you can find it by searching 'CsandRS' in the stuvia search bar. They have revision notes following the spec for paper 1, 2 & a coding guide for python. Also you would probably also be bale to find notes for edexcel business
Hope this helps

Reply 6

Original post by GCSE helper
Hi, this is some advice for OCR computer science
You should watch the craig'n'dave videos ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCiOXwirraUAEhj4TUjMxYm4593B2dUPF ) to UNDERSTAND the content.
Then, once you UNDERSTAND it you have to MEMORISE the key points. To do this you should use the OCR SPECIFICATION ( https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/558027-specification-gcse-computer-science-j277.pdf ) to see what is the EXACT content that you need to memorise.
For example if you want study Network topologies you would:
1) Find the video in craigndave and then focus on the key concepts that you want to understand (eg learning the star & mesh networks and how they both have advantages and disadvantages)
2) Then you look in the spec what you need to MEMORISE about them, it says 'Advantages and disadvantages of the Star and Mesh topologies', so you would then make REVISION NOTES about 2/3 adv & dis for both topologies.
3) Then you MEMROISE these notes till you can easily recall them in the exam. To do this you could copy paste them onto a flashcard app like ANKI
4) Now in the exam if you get a question about them your brain will straight away recall the adv/dis's then you can apply it to the question and bag those marks!
If you don't want to make the notes yourself you can find them online from websites like STUVIA (has many revision notes). The ones I used were made by 'CSandRS', you can find it by searching 'CsandRS' in the stuvia search bar. They have revision notes following the spec for paper 1, 2 & a coding guide for python. Also you would probably also be bale to find notes for edexcel business
Hope this helps

Thanks for this hopefully this will help me in my upcoming mocks in febuary

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