AQA GCSE Computer Science Paper 1 - Monday, May 12, 2025 [Exam Chat]

Reply 40

Fai8ful

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by Pwca

How did it go, everyone? :smile:

Spoiler

Not bad

Reply 41

Legend_Linh

3

Absolutely awful wth was the last question and that second trace table omg

Reply 42

sillysod69

5

I actually do not know if I liked that or not.. I only think I got the first 2 programming questions right and the rest I would have just gotten a few marks idk, also why were there so many questions with .len and length?? was it just me who thought that? paper 2 will save me so its okay 😁

Reply 43

millie.moo123

5

It wasn’t too bad. I found programming good, but i find the programming not too bad. For the last question i created a won variable, set it as false outside the while loop and then in the while loop set it as true. Then did for i in range and then for each hidden (i) i checked if it was an *. If it wasn’t won became false.
Would this work?
Also wtf was the question with merge sorts and odd… never seen that before.
Paper 2 is gonna be hard i think and haven’t revised a lot and its on the same day as English 😭😭

Reply 44

shira_geh

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by Fai8ful

Not bad

it actually went quite good!

Reply 45

aslkjhbaodfhseb

1

it went rlly well for me but what did everyone get for characteristics of a structured approach?? i had no clue i put use of subroutines and functions, and use of parameters

Reply 46

lomlume6

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by aslkjhbaodfhseb

it went rlly well for me but what did everyone get for characteristics of a structured approach?? i had no clue i put use of subroutines and functions, and use of parameters

i thought the question was the advantages of a structured approach

Reply 47

aslkjhbaodfhseb

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by lomlume6

i thought the question was the advantages of a structured approach

no it said characteristics???

Reply 48

Legend_Linh

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by aslkjhbaodfhseb

it went rlly well for me but what did everyone get for characteristics of a structured approach?? i had no clue i put use of subroutines and functions, and use of parameters

Oh I wrote about subroutines and why they were good 😭

Reply 49

tjh1989!

1

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by Legend_Linh

Oh I wrote about subroutines and why they were good 😭

Me too, I'm pretty sure that's valid as they are part of a structured approach

Reply 50

caseysays

8

i overall liked the paper but the programming questions had me really stumped idk why but i struggled a lot on them but eh i gave them my best shot. rest of the paper was great

Reply 51

RevanthSambangi

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by Legend_Linh

Absolutely awful wth was the last question and that second trace table omg

was the subroutine for the second trace table to add 2 nibbles together?

Reply 52

fuzzy-pillar

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by aslkjhbaodfhseb

it went rlly well for me but what did everyone get for characteristics of a structured approach?? i had no clue i put use of subroutines and functions, and use of parameters

Pretty sure for the two marks: subroutines/functions/procedures; sequence/selection/iteration

Reply 53

aslkjhbaodfhseb

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by RevanthSambangi

was the subroutine for the second trace table to add 2 nibbles together?

i thought that at first but i dont think it had anything about the remainders, and i added them together without the algorithm and got a different answer, for the trace table answer i got 0101, but when you add the nibbles together you get 1001 or smth like that i dont remeber so i was a bit confused

Reply 54

aslkjhbaodfhseb

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by aslkjhbaodfhseb

i thought that at first but i dont think it had anything about the remainders, and i added them together without the algorithm and got a different answer, for the trace table answer i got 0101, but when you add the nibbles together you get 1001 or smth like that i dont remeber so i was a bit confused

i think it was just a random algorithm they dont always have a specific purpose

Reply 55

suhprem4cy

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by fuzzy-pillar

Pretty sure for the two marks: subroutines/functions/procedures; sequence/selection/iteration

What if i wrote subroutines and decomposition

Reply 56

Legend_Linh

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by RevanthSambangi

was the subroutine for the second trace table to add 2 nibbles together?

Oh don’t even, I just randomly took one of the nibbles and filled up every box with it 😭 the examiner’s going to think I’m mad

Reply 57

hsn953

7

Hi all. This discussion will not help any of you in almsoy anything. On the contrary. Please relax, you all did your best. Exams are tricky, there's a bit of luck, a bit of technique, a bit of actual learning checked. It's not fully representative of your abilities.

Reply 58

tjj8889

OP

5

omg what i dont even remember that nibbles question i remember the tracetable wait guys yk the boundary data question where it asked for an example : did it have to be erroneous as well i dont think i read the question properly so i just put 14-

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