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The topics where you're leaving the most marks on the table, ranked from your own answers.
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| Topic | June 2017 | June 2018 | June 2019 | November 2020 | November 2021 | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 | June 2025 | Share of all marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices | ||||||||||
| Structure and function of the processor | Structure and function of the processor, November 2020: none | Structure and function of the processor, June 2023: none | Structure and function of the processor: 2.9% of all marks (73 of 2,520), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 9 of 18 papers | |||||||
| Types of processor | Types of processor, November 2020: none | Types of processor, June 2024: none | Types of processor: 1.3% of all marks (33 of 2,520), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 7 of 18 papers | |||||||
| Input, output and storage | Input, output and storage, November 2020: none | Input, output and storage, June 2022: none | Input, output and storage: 1.9% of all marks (47 of 2,520), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 7 of 18 papers | |||||||
Software and software development | ||||||||||
| Systems Software | Systems Software, November 2021: none | Systems Software: 3.9% of all marks (98 of 2,520), in the top third of topics · comes up in 8 of 18 papers | ||||||||
| Applications Generation | Applications Generation, November 2021: none | Applications Generation: 3.3% of all marks (82 of 2,520), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 8 of 18 papers | ||||||||
| Software Development | Software Development, June 2018: none | Software Development, November 2020: none | Software Development, November 2021: none | Software Development, June 2023: none | Software Development, June 2024: none | Software Development, June 2025: none | Software Development: 0.7% of all marks (17 of 2,520), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 3 of 18 papers | |||
| Types of Programming Language | Types of Programming Language: 12% of all marks (290 of 2,520), in the top third of topics · comes up in 18 of 18 papers | |||||||||
Exchanging data | ||||||||||
| Compression, Encryption and Hashing | Compression, Encryption and Hashing, November 2021: none | Compression, Encryption and Hashing: 2.6% of all marks (66 of 2,520), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 8 of 18 papers | ||||||||
| Databases | Databases: 4.2% of all marks (107 of 2,520), in the top third of topics · comes up in 10 of 18 papers | |||||||||
| Networks | Networks, November 2021: none | Networks: 2.5% of all marks (64 of 2,520), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 8 of 18 papers | ||||||||
| Web Technologies | Web Technologies, November 2020: none | Web Technologies, June 2022: none | Web Technologies, June 2025: none | Web Technologies: 3.0% of all marks (76 of 2,520), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 6 of 18 papers | ||||||
Data types, data structures and algorithms | ||||||||||
| Data Types | Data Types: 5.4% of all marks (135 of 2,520), in the top third of topics · comes up in 11 of 18 papers | |||||||||
| Data Structures | Data Structures: 15% of all marks (375 of 2,520), in the top third of topics · comes up in 15 of 18 papers | |||||||||
| Boolean Algebra | Boolean Algebra, June 2022: none | Boolean Algebra: 3.3% of all marks (83 of 2,520), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 8 of 18 papers | ||||||||
Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues | ||||||||||
| Computing related legislation | Computing related legislation, June 2017: none | Computing related legislation, June 2019: none | Computing related legislation: 2.5% of all marks (64 of 2,520), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 7 of 9 papers that cover it | |||||||
| Moral and ethical Issues | Moral and ethical Issues, November 2021: none | Moral and ethical Issues: 2.2% of all marks (56 of 2,520), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 8 of 9 papers that cover it | ||||||||
Elements of computational thinking | ||||||||||
| Thinking abstractly | Thinking abstractly, June 2025: none | Thinking abstractly: 1.6% of all marks (41 of 2,520), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 8 of 9 papers that cover it | ||||||||
| Thinking ahead | Thinking ahead: 1.7% of all marks (42 of 2,520), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 9 of 9 papers that cover it | |||||||||
| Thinking procedurally | Thinking procedurally, June 2018: none | Thinking procedurally, November 2020: none | Thinking procedurally, June 2024: none | Thinking procedurally, June 2025: none | Thinking procedurally: 0.8% of all marks (21 of 2,520), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 5 of 9 papers that cover it | |||||
| Thinking logically | Thinking logically, June 2017: none | Thinking logically, June 2018: none | Thinking logically, November 2020: none | Thinking logically, June 2023: none | Thinking logically, June 2025: none | Thinking logically: 0.3% of all marks (8 of 2,520), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 4 of 9 papers that cover it | ||||
| Thinking concurrently | Thinking concurrently, June 2019: none | Thinking concurrently, June 2022: none | Thinking concurrently, June 2024: none | Thinking concurrently, June 2025: none | Thinking concurrently: 1.4% of all marks (36 of 2,520), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 5 of 9 papers that cover it | |||||
Problem solving and programming | ||||||||||
| Programming techniques | Programming techniques: 15% of all marks (376 of 2,520), in the top third of topics · comes up in 17 of 18 papers | |||||||||
| Computational methods | Computational methods: 4.1% of all marks (104 of 2,520), in the top third of topics · comes up in 9 of 18 papers | |||||||||
Algorithms | ||||||||||
| Algorithms | Algorithms: 12% of all marks (293 of 2,520), in the top third of topics · comes up in 9 of 9 papers that cover it | |||||||||
