AQA A-Level Computer Science 7517
Date: 09/11/2024
Concern: NEA submission
Expanded: "Hi, Currently an AL computer science student, our NEAs need to be submitted on or after 15th of May 2025. MY dilemma is that my project is barely started or in submittable form, and the Computer Science department wants my NEA in about a weeks time. I know that I can finish my NEA to a high standard, however the real thing that struck me was when they mentioned we will NOT be able to submit anything else after next week. Ithought this was absolute crap since given that the due date is like May how come we are limited to an internal deadline
I'll give further context:
- We started our NEAs with the school halfway through Year 12
- We had regular progress checks to ascertain progression
- We had a code evaluation meeting
- We were given ample time to complete the NEA
I think that they want it in early so that marking can be easier and so that they could get the NEAs out of the way so that we could focus on more important things such as the 2025 CS preliminary material. However I still feel like I would need some more time i.e. until 2/3's of the way into November before I feel like the project is complete. What should I do? Am I finished? Would the CS department block me from being able to submit my work after the deadline? Are they allowed to mark it again? Is 20% of my final CS grade gone to shite and I can no longer get an A*? Thanks for reading"
Concern: NEA submission
Expanded: "Hi, Currently an AL computer science student, our NEAs need to be submitted on or after 15th of May 2025. MY dilemma is that my project is barely started or in submittable form, and the Computer Science department wants my NEA in about a weeks time. I know that I can finish my NEA to a high standard, however the real thing that struck me was when they mentioned we will NOT be able to submit anything else after next week. Ithought this was absolute crap since given that the due date is like May how come we are limited to an internal deadline
I'll give further context:
- We started our NEAs with the school halfway through Year 12
- We had regular progress checks to ascertain progression
- We had a code evaluation meeting
- We were given ample time to complete the NEA
I think that they want it in early so that marking can be easier and so that they could get the NEAs out of the way so that we could focus on more important things such as the 2025 CS preliminary material. However I still feel like I would need some more time i.e. until 2/3's of the way into November before I feel like the project is complete. What should I do? Am I finished? Would the CS department block me from being able to submit my work after the deadline? Are they allowed to mark it again? Is 20% of my final CS grade gone to shite and I can no longer get an A*? Thanks for reading"
Given that I am a pretty profound Computer Science student wrt to the theory and coding aspect, it will not be difficult for me to accumulate lots of marks. But if I theoretically score a 0/75, what would be the amount of marks required to get an A*.
I think the question is more so: 'what is the lowest amount of marks I can get such that A* is still possible in AL CS'
I think the question is more so: 'what is the lowest amount of marks I can get such that A* is still possible in AL CS'
Original post by GreatestOfAllTim
Date: 09/11/2024
Concern: NEA submission
Expanded: "Hi, Currently an AL computer science student, our NEAs need to be submitted on or after 15th of May 2025. MY dilemma is that my project is barely started or in submittable form, and the Computer Science department wants my NEA in about a weeks time. I know that I can finish my NEA to a high standard, however the real thing that struck me was when they mentioned we will NOT be able to submit anything else after next week. Ithought this was absolute crap since given that the due date is like May how come we are limited to an internal deadline
I'll give further context:
- We started our NEAs with the school halfway through Year 12
- We had regular progress checks to ascertain progression
- We had a code evaluation meeting
- We were given ample time to complete the NEA
I think that they want it in early so that marking can be easier and so that they could get the NEAs out of the way so that we could focus on more important things such as the 2025 CS preliminary material. However I still feel like I would need some more time i.e. until 2/3's of the way into November before I feel like the project is complete. What should I do? Am I finished? Would the CS department block me from being able to submit my work after the deadline? Are they allowed to mark it again? Is 20% of my final CS grade gone to shite and I can no longer get an A*? Thanks for reading"
Concern: NEA submission
Expanded: "Hi, Currently an AL computer science student, our NEAs need to be submitted on or after 15th of May 2025. MY dilemma is that my project is barely started or in submittable form, and the Computer Science department wants my NEA in about a weeks time. I know that I can finish my NEA to a high standard, however the real thing that struck me was when they mentioned we will NOT be able to submit anything else after next week. Ithought this was absolute crap since given that the due date is like May how come we are limited to an internal deadline
I'll give further context:
- We started our NEAs with the school halfway through Year 12
- We had regular progress checks to ascertain progression
- We had a code evaluation meeting
- We were given ample time to complete the NEA
I think that they want it in early so that marking can be easier and so that they could get the NEAs out of the way so that we could focus on more important things such as the 2025 CS preliminary material. However I still feel like I would need some more time i.e. until 2/3's of the way into November before I feel like the project is complete. What should I do? Am I finished? Would the CS department block me from being able to submit my work after the deadline? Are they allowed to mark it again? Is 20% of my final CS grade gone to shite and I can no longer get an A*? Thanks for reading"
I finally found someone who does/ did Computer Science A-level. 😊, but you did a different exam board 😭😭😭. Any tips would help though. Sorry this was about you and your question but I changed it into being about me
(edited 1 month ago)
No worries
ensure you do your NEA way ahead of time by doing small things such as creating headings for your document and planning bullet points about what you can waffle about
make sure when you write your NEA (I'm gonna assume you're OCR spec) that you use the mark scheme that the examiners/teachers use to assess your writeup. Read through this thoroughly and jot down in your respective secctions a plan about what exactly you need to include so that the examiner can't really put you in a disadvantaged state.
the NEA is a beautiful mercy since it enables those who are educated and those who read the bludclart markscheme to strategise and plan their project in such a way that they can code their solution to exactly what the examboard wants and from there increase their chance of performing extra well in their final exam, with the NEA being a cushion of support in case if they fail to deliver
Otherwise for theory just ensure your knowledge expands further than the specification
For OCR my friend told me its especially important that you map your answer to the mark scheme AND be very specific with your written solution. For example a question about what interrupts are, I answered something vague along the lines of : "thing that CPU hears and then it drops the other pgorams that its doing and attends to the high priority emergency", of which my friend recently advised me to say something like: "programs appended/pushed onto stack for main memory then high priortiy something like that blabla then after the priorty thing is done POP the instructions back into the CPU" the idea I'm trying to push into your brain and the brains of those who might read this years later
Any other questions don't hesitate to ask me
For programming its quite simple but just do programming, you'd be amazed at the amount of progress you can make with regards to your brain capacity by just Doing Stuff
And yeah the rest of the important stuff like drinking water eating food all of that do that take care of yourself so your brain is happy
If you feel sad remember that you have NOTHING TO BE SAD ABOUT, you have so many blessings and advantages over billions of humans like your ability to see and walk without pain and eat without pain and not be allergic to water and have a family and have the ability to breathe without pain and have hair on your head. Even if you are struck with some of these remember your blessings
One mishap and you think that your life is ass
never adopt this ideology
Apologies for doing too much, I have extended this response importance of gratitude i.e. shukr but remember to do lots of dhikr and most of all lhave sabr.
Remember when Yunus A.S. was stuck in the belly of a whale at the bottom of the bludclart ocean but still he remembered his Rabb and had hope. That is pretty flipping scary innit. In the belly of a bludclart whale!!! What the bumbuclart!
And then compare that to me. Scared of a flipping deadline for my A-Levels
This life is not worth anything make sure you commit to salah, that's what you'll really be asked about
but never let that be a reason for you to be lazy and not do anything.
Aspire to be something, my aspiration is to be the GreatestOfAllTim(e) wrt improving myself
I hope others reading this benefit positively from my waffling and gargbling 8 days before my final NEA deadline
ensure you do your NEA way ahead of time by doing small things such as creating headings for your document and planning bullet points about what you can waffle about
make sure when you write your NEA (I'm gonna assume you're OCR spec) that you use the mark scheme that the examiners/teachers use to assess your writeup. Read through this thoroughly and jot down in your respective secctions a plan about what exactly you need to include so that the examiner can't really put you in a disadvantaged state.
the NEA is a beautiful mercy since it enables those who are educated and those who read the bludclart markscheme to strategise and plan their project in such a way that they can code their solution to exactly what the examboard wants and from there increase their chance of performing extra well in their final exam, with the NEA being a cushion of support in case if they fail to deliver
Otherwise for theory just ensure your knowledge expands further than the specification
For OCR my friend told me its especially important that you map your answer to the mark scheme AND be very specific with your written solution. For example a question about what interrupts are, I answered something vague along the lines of : "thing that CPU hears and then it drops the other pgorams that its doing and attends to the high priority emergency", of which my friend recently advised me to say something like: "programs appended/pushed onto stack for main memory then high priortiy something like that blabla then after the priorty thing is done POP the instructions back into the CPU" the idea I'm trying to push into your brain and the brains of those who might read this years later
Any other questions don't hesitate to ask me
For programming its quite simple but just do programming, you'd be amazed at the amount of progress you can make with regards to your brain capacity by just Doing Stuff
And yeah the rest of the important stuff like drinking water eating food all of that do that take care of yourself so your brain is happy
If you feel sad remember that you have NOTHING TO BE SAD ABOUT, you have so many blessings and advantages over billions of humans like your ability to see and walk without pain and eat without pain and not be allergic to water and have a family and have the ability to breathe without pain and have hair on your head. Even if you are struck with some of these remember your blessings
One mishap and you think that your life is ass
never adopt this ideology
Apologies for doing too much, I have extended this response importance of gratitude i.e. shukr but remember to do lots of dhikr and most of all lhave sabr.
Remember when Yunus A.S. was stuck in the belly of a whale at the bottom of the bludclart ocean but still he remembered his Rabb and had hope. That is pretty flipping scary innit. In the belly of a bludclart whale!!! What the bumbuclart!
And then compare that to me. Scared of a flipping deadline for my A-Levels
This life is not worth anything make sure you commit to salah, that's what you'll really be asked about
but never let that be a reason for you to be lazy and not do anything.
Aspire to be something, my aspiration is to be the GreatestOfAllTim(e) wrt improving myself
I hope others reading this benefit positively from my waffling and gargbling 8 days before my final NEA deadline
TLDR;
NEA -- Do stuff do any stuff ieven just procrastinating making titles
Theory -- Ensure your theory knowledge extendes further beyond the spec, e.g. even though I do 7517 AQA spec I should be able to answer OCR questions and CIAE questions and all other questions GCSE whatnot etc. etc.
Practical -- Just programming innit lol
Deen -- Maintain salah
NEA -- Do stuff do any stuff ieven just procrastinating making titles
Theory -- Ensure your theory knowledge extendes further beyond the spec, e.g. even though I do 7517 AQA spec I should be able to answer OCR questions and CIAE questions and all other questions GCSE whatnot etc. etc.
Practical -- Just programming innit lol
Deen -- Maintain salah
Original post by GreatestOfAllTim
TLDR;
NEA -- Do stuff do any stuff ieven just procrastinating making titles
Theory -- Ensure your theory knowledge extendes further beyond the spec, e.g. even though I do 7517 AQA spec I should be able to answer OCR questions and CIAE questions and all other questions GCSE whatnot etc. etc.
Practical -- Just programming innit lol
Deen -- Maintain salah
NEA -- Do stuff do any stuff ieven just procrastinating making titles
Theory -- Ensure your theory knowledge extendes further beyond the spec, e.g. even though I do 7517 AQA spec I should be able to answer OCR questions and CIAE questions and all other questions GCSE whatnot etc. etc.
Practical -- Just programming innit lol
Deen -- Maintain salah
Wa wa wait a minute…… ur muslim aswell 😨. And yes I am doing OCR… THANK U SOOOOO MUCH!!!
(edited 1 month ago)
Original post by GreatestOfAllTim
TLDR;
NEA -- Do stuff do any stuff ieven just procrastinating making titles
Theory -- Ensure your theory knowledge extendes further beyond the spec, e.g. even though I do 7517 AQA spec I should be able to answer OCR questions and CIAE questions and all other questions GCSE whatnot etc. etc.
Practical -- Just programming innit lol
Deen -- Maintain salah
NEA -- Do stuff do any stuff ieven just procrastinating making titles
Theory -- Ensure your theory knowledge extendes further beyond the spec, e.g. even though I do 7517 AQA spec I should be able to answer OCR questions and CIAE questions and all other questions GCSE whatnot etc. etc.
Practical -- Just programming innit lol
Deen -- Maintain salah
Tbh my biggest issue is that I’m in y12 and our teacher completely ignores my cry for help 😂, that sounded over dramatic but ye… she doesn’t rlly help or explain things in deep detail. I mean, I get the stuff in the end but I have to re-do entire lessons at home, so being at sixth form for that amount of time and then redoing entire lessons at home is a waste of time at this point. 😭 The theory is really easy. However, she told us to come up with something for our coursework and she didn’t even give us any guidelines, and me being an over thinker my brain was bouncing everywhere and surprisingly no one was able to give me a straight answer until you Mr. Babbler. I have a lot more questions once you have time sir. Wait, I’m guessing ur over 18 so does that make u sir? Anyways, thank you and Inshallah you will do really well 🥰. Also, out of curiosity where are u from?
(edited 1 month ago)
Original post by zafi-123
Tbh my biggest issue is that I’m in y12 and our teacher completely ignores my cry for help 😂, that sounded over dramatic but ye… she doesn’t rlly help or explain things in deep detail. I mean, I get the stuff in the end but I have to re-do entire lessons at home, so being at sixth form for that amount of time and then redoing entire lessons at home is a waste of time at this point. 😭 The theory is really easy. However, she told us to come up with something for our coursework and she didn’t even give us any guidelines, and me being an over thinker my brain was bouncing everywhere and surprisingly no one was able to give me a straight answer until you Mr. Babbler. I have a lot more questions once you have time sir. Wait, I’m guessing ur over 18 so does that make u sir? Anyways, thank you and Inshallah you will do really well 🥰. Also, out of curiosity where are u from?
Alhamdulillah
The whole point of A-Levels is independent study i'm gonna be honest don't make excuses "uhhh I have an ass teacher" yadayadayafdad even though your CS teacher is probably ass (mine is but I will not use this as an excuse)
I am NOT over 18 what the bumbuclart
thanks for the duas and I wish you the best likewise
I'm from the UK I'm guessing youre from PK
Yes the theory is easy
The hardest thing about ALevels is discipline. Remember that. After yuo master discipline everything else is easy. Assuming of course you develop that discipline well before the exams (personally my goal is to be fully exam ready by the start of January) any questinos dont hesitate to ask
Original post by GreatestOfAllTim
Alhamdulillah
The whole point of A-Levels is independent study i'm gonna be honest don't make excuses "uhhh I have an ass teacher" yadayadayafdad even though your CS teacher is probably ass (mine is but I will not use this as an excuse)
I am NOT over 18 what the bumbuclart
thanks for the duas and I wish you the best likewise
I'm from the UK I'm guessing youre from PK
Yes the theory is easy
The hardest thing about ALevels is discipline. Remember that. After yuo master discipline everything else is easy. Assuming of course you develop that discipline well before the exams (personally my goal is to be fully exam ready by the start of January) any questinos dont hesitate to ask
The whole point of A-Levels is independent study i'm gonna be honest don't make excuses "uhhh I have an ass teacher" yadayadayafdad even though your CS teacher is probably ass (mine is but I will not use this as an excuse)
I am NOT over 18 what the bumbuclart
thanks for the duas and I wish you the best likewise
I'm from the UK I'm guessing youre from PK
Yes the theory is easy
The hardest thing about ALevels is discipline. Remember that. After yuo master discipline everything else is easy. Assuming of course you develop that discipline well before the exams (personally my goal is to be fully exam ready by the start of January) any questinos dont hesitate to ask
I’m not from Pakistan…. Ur way off 😂, and I meant ethnically not nationality wise, I’m gonna assume something like… Somalian? And ye I shouldn’t make excuses. Ngl one thing I am grateful for though is the my dad is a software engineer so it is easy to ask help with the coding and stuff. Time is flying so fast tho, it’s scary 😨. Both in a religious and just practical way. Also, y did u assume I was Pakistani? (I’m more interesting- by that I don’t mean to offend anyone but ye) Oh and also which language do you guys program in? And how do you recommend that someone revises, because ur very right discipline is so hard 😅, so any bits of like advice in terms of theory revision would help(any methods/ resources that are actually helpful - cuz inshallah I get minimum an A).
(edited 1 month ago)
Original post by GreatestOfAllTim
Alhamdulillah
The whole point of A-Levels is independent study i'm gonna be honest don't make excuses "uhhh I have an ass teacher" yadayadayafdad even though your CS teacher is probably ass (mine is but I will not use this as an excuse)
I am NOT over 18 what the bumbuclart
thanks for the duas and I wish you the best likewise
I'm from the UK I'm guessing youre from PK
Yes the theory is easy
The hardest thing about ALevels is discipline. Remember that. After yuo master discipline everything else is easy. Assuming of course you develop that discipline well before the exams (personally my goal is to be fully exam ready by the start of January) any questinos dont hesitate to ask
The whole point of A-Levels is independent study i'm gonna be honest don't make excuses "uhhh I have an ass teacher" yadayadayafdad even though your CS teacher is probably ass (mine is but I will not use this as an excuse)
I am NOT over 18 what the bumbuclart
thanks for the duas and I wish you the best likewise
I'm from the UK I'm guessing youre from PK
Yes the theory is easy
The hardest thing about ALevels is discipline. Remember that. After yuo master discipline everything else is easy. Assuming of course you develop that discipline well before the exams (personally my goal is to be fully exam ready by the start of January) any questinos dont hesitate to ask
Waiiiiit, r u like half Jamaican and half Pakistani?sorry for the questions. I’m just curious
(edited 1 month ago)
Yk muslims arent limited to being brown, right?
Original post by GreatestOfAllTim
Yk muslims arent limited to being brown, right?
Ik that…. I’m not brown myself it’s just that u use ‘bombaclat’ in ur speech. Now I don’t want to be stereotypical… but it is a reasonable assumption for you to be yk…
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Bumbuclart Bumbuclart BUmbuclart
people spam LOL I just spam BUMBUCLART
people spam LOL I just spam BUMBUCLART
Original post by GreatestOfAllTim
Bumbuclart Bumbuclart BUmbuclart
people spam LOL I just spam BUMBUCLART
people spam LOL I just spam BUMBUCLART
U would think that someone of ur elderly age would be more ‘adulty’😭. Also this ‘bumberclat’ conversation is exasperating, so do u mind just answering the question. I’m starting to think ur either Arab or ….. nah ur definitely Arab
(edited 4 weeks ago)
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