AQA 8525 GCSE Computer Science Specimen Paper 1 Walkthrough

Going through the AQA GCSE Computer Science sample paper for the 1st exam of the two (Computational Thinking and Programming Skills). This specification has the code 8525.

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[gabrieldealmeida]

thanks so much man this really helped,
God bless everyone in their test tomorrow.

[OrangeFoxE]

Inshallah we all get great grades tomorrow

[kkrvsh]

i got a 3 in my mock and now my actual exam is tmrrw hope it goes well

[philosophile]

Good luck to everyone doing the exam tomorrow afternoon. Just remember that even if you don't get a 9, appreciate how far you've come from since year 9 or year 10. I remember I could've never done or understood pseudocode that easily just last year and now I feel very comfortable with writing python code. I hope everyone does their best!

[jhde]

Thanks for your time and the recommendation. Will look into the playlist and maybe even subscribe. I've only found a few channels that do a beautiful at teaching and explaining. And they don't upload that often.

[robinscott]

thanks soo much for this i have my gcse paper 1 exam tomorrow and this really helped

[Cactus]

hello fellow year 11's cramming for tomorrow!

[HG-nfif]

Can you please do a video for AQA8525 June 2022 Paper 1?

[juniordavidd]

you are better than craig n' dave

[danwatts]

Good luck everyone for tomorrow. Am also cramming

[thebritishenglishteacher]

Thank you for these videos. I am homeschooling, and the exam walkthroughs help to make sure we’re on the right track.

[erdammuhammad]

I needed you before my mock exam I could have probably got an extra 10 marks but my paper 2 i will look at your other video before my my paper 2 next week

[amritlohia]

In the last problem, after the while loop, you can simply write, for example, print("The braking distance is " + str(speed / 5 * (1 + 0.5*(input("Is the ground wet? ") == "yes")))). Note as a general point that multiplication by a boolean value (equated to 1 for true and 0 for false) is faster on most CPUs than using an if statement, since it can simply get compiled to a conditional execution rather than having to use branching. Of course, if you're using a scripting language such as Python then you're presumably not that concerned about efficiency anyway, but for those students who go on to do e.g. low-level systems programming, these sorts of details matter.

[enderehs]

Mr brown could you take my exam for me please

[georgesmith]

q 15 really confuses me because in python it doesn't work

[KDOGG]

w video it helped me with computer science

[gauri.k]

Hi, for question 5, I did:

journey = float(input('enter distance in km'))
passenger_no = int(input('no of passengers'))
cost_pp = passenger_no * 2
distance_pkm = 1.5*journey
taxi_fare = cost_pp + distance_pkm
print("fare: £", taxi_fare)


would I still get all the marks?

thank you!

[maxymooo]

39:14

I just do

character = ord(input("Enter a character: "))
if character >=65 and character <=90:
print("NOT LOWER")
else:
print("LOWER")

[izzieh]

for the taxi question could you do this instead? i know it's longer but i just want to know if it works. any help would be appreciated! thanks :))

price = 0
distance = int(input())
passengers = int(input())
for i in range (1, passengers):
price = price +2
for i in range (1, distance):
price = price + 1.50
print(price)

[lilypot]

Can you please create a video for AQA GCSE computer Science papers 1 and 2 May 2020? Thanks