Computer Science GCSE Edexcel

Imandal

Can you suggest revision tips for CS

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Hello! I'm a Y11 student who's doing CIE IGCSE Computer Science :wavey:

I'm predicted an A* for CS and I'll be giving my GCSE this May/June.

Onto the topic of revision strategies, you'd obviously know that cs is split into two categories: the theory bit and the practical bit. Honestly, for the practical bit, it's just practice, practice, practice. I think if your logic is good, then the practical paper should be easy for you! :biggrin:

Next, for the theory paper, I personally find this part realllly annoying as you've got to memorise everything! Especially all about the hardware and software and the components of the CPU :redface:

I'm not doing Edexcel but in our textbook there was a lot of unnecessary info that we didn't need at all. So what I did was I opened the spec and noted down the exact info I needed for my exam. There were a lot of definitions provided in the specification as well so that helped me work smarter and faster :smile:

I created short notes that summarise everything I needed for the theory bit and now I use that to revise for my exams! :biggrin:

There are other websites that you can find online for CS that would help you as well. I think Save My Exams would be one of the best ones you could find! YT videos also come in handy, especially if you find it easier to learn and memorise things by listening! :groovy:

A few good YT channels would be Mr. Bulmer's learning zone and Craig n Dave.
Lastly, I'd recommend you go through past papers when you're confident with your conceptual knowledge... if not entire past papers, you could still go through exam-style questions by topic 🙃

I hope this helps! Let me know if you'd like me to clarify anything! Good luck with your revision :flower2: