Exam preparation
How OCR, AQA and Eduqas assess the A level, command words and levels of response, tracing, pseudocode and writing code under exam conditions, skeleton programs, theory at speed and a revision plan, each lesson ending in a task that mixes the whole course.
Start in the simulator- A15.1 How your A level is assessed The papers and the project for OCR H446, AQA 7517 and Eduqas A500QS, the assessment objectives, and a timing plan…
- A15.2 Command words and levels of response What each command word asks for, how extended answers are marked in levels, and a marker that levels answers with…
- A15.3 Trace tables and hand-tracing Tracing loops, recursion and Little Man Computer programs without slips, and a binary search that prints its own trace…
- A15.4 Pseudocode in the exam languages OCR's exam reference language and AQA's pseudo-code side by side with Python, the traps in translating, and a stack…
- A15.5 Writing algorithms and code in the exam Planning before writing, how code is marked, the standard algorithms to know by heart, and Dijkstra's algorithm…
- A15.6 Pre-release material and skeleton programs Getting to know a skeleton program before the exam, the questions asked about it, and making exam-style changes to one.
- A15.7 Calculation and theory questions Number representation, floating point, Boolean logic, state machines and complexity answered quickly and checked.
- A15.8 A revision plan and mixed practice Mapping the specification, retrieval, spacing and interleaving, and a spaced repetition scheduler for the whole course.