For our Year 11 examination, the students will sit one examination that will copy the style of the GCSE Paper 1 in this subject. The paper will have 5 questions, one for each topic on the course (as per the final paper 1). The five topics are:

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• Topic 1: Computational thinking – understanding of what algorithms are, what they are used for and how they work; ability to follow, amend and write algorithms; searching and sorting; ability to construct truth tables. 

• Topic 2: Data – understanding of binary, hexadecimal, data representation, data storage and compression. 

• Topic 3: Computers – understanding of hardware and software components of computer systems and characteristics of programming languages. 

• Topic 4: Networks – understanding of computer networks and network security. 

• Topic 5: Issues and impact – awareness of emerging trends in computing technologies, and the impact of computing on individuals, society and the environment, including ethical, legal and ownership issues.

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For the Year 13, the students will sit one 2 1/2 hour examination that will copy the style of the Paper 1 theory examination in the summer. It will not cover all the 12 theory topics, but will focus primarily on the topics that have been taught until this point:

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Unit 1 - Components of a computer
Unit 2 - System software
Unit 3 - Software development
Unit 4 - Exchanging Data (both Databases and SQL)
Unit 5 - Networks and Web Technologies
Unit 6 - Data Types
Unit 7 - Data Structures
Unit 8 - Boolean Algebra