Key Stage 5 (Years 12 & 13)
A-Level Computer Science
Examination board: OCR
Paper 1: Computer Systems. 40% of total A-Level.
This paper covers The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices, software development, exchanging data, data types, data structures and algorithms, legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues.
Paper 2: Algorithms and Programming. 40% of total A-Level
This paper covers elements of computational thinking, problem solving and programming, algorithms to solve problems and standard algorithms.
Programming Project: 20% of total A-Level.
Pupils choose a computing problem to work through according to the guidance in the specification.