Spec H446
The topics where you're leaving the most marks on the table, ranked from your own answers.
% Of exams is the share of exam series a topic came up in. 100% means it came up at least once in every series, not on every paper.
| Topic | June 2017 | June 2018 | June 2019 | November 2020 | November 2021 | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 | June 2025 | Share of exam series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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: comes up in 7 of 9 exam series, on 9 of 18 papers · 2.9% of all marks (73 of 2,520) | |||||||
| Types of processor | Types of processor, November 2020: none | Types of processor, June 2024: none | Types of processor: comes up in 7 of 9 exam series, on 7 of 18 papers · 1.3% of all marks (33 of 2,520) | |||||||
| Input, output and storage | Input, output and storage, November 2020: none | Input, output and storage, June 2022: none | Input, output and storage: comes up in 7 of 9 exam series, on 7 of 18 papers · 1.9% of all marks (47 of 2,520) | |||||||
Software and software development | ||||||||||
| Systems Software | Systems Software, November 2021: none | Systems Software: comes up in 8 of 9 exam series, on 8 of 18 papers · 3.9% of all marks (98 of 2,520) | ||||||||
| Applications Generation | Applications Generation, November 2021: none | Applications Generation: comes up in 8 of 9 exam series, on 8 of 18 papers · 3.3% of all marks (82 of 2,520) | ||||||||
| 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: comes up in 3 of 9 exam series, on 3 of 18 papers · 0.7% of all marks (17 of 2,520) | |||
| Types of Programming Language | Types of Programming Language: comes up in 9 of 9 exam series, on 18 of 18 papers · 12% of all marks (290 of 2,520) | |||||||||
Exchanging data | ||||||||||
| Compression, Encryption and Hashing | Compression, Encryption and Hashing, November 2021: none | Compression, Encryption and Hashing: comes up in 8 of 9 exam series, on 8 of 18 papers · 2.6% of all marks (66 of 2,520) | ||||||||
| Databases | Databases: comes up in 9 of 9 exam series, on 10 of 18 papers · 4.2% of all marks (107 of 2,520) | |||||||||
| Networks | Networks, November 2021: none | Networks: comes up in 8 of 9 exam series, on 8 of 18 papers · 2.5% of all marks (64 of 2,520) | ||||||||
| Web Technologies | Web Technologies, November 2020: none | Web Technologies, June 2022: none | Web Technologies, June 2025: none | Web Technologies: comes up in 6 of 9 exam series, on 6 of 18 papers · 3.0% of all marks (76 of 2,520) | ||||||
Data types, data structures and algorithms | ||||||||||
| Data Types | Data Types: comes up in 9 of 9 exam series, on 11 of 18 papers · 5.4% of all marks (135 of 2,520) | |||||||||
| Data Structures | Data Structures: comes up in 9 of 9 exam series, on 15 of 18 papers · 15% of all marks (375 of 2,520) | |||||||||
| Boolean Algebra | Boolean Algebra, June 2022: none | Boolean Algebra: comes up in 8 of 9 exam series, on 8 of 18 papers · 3.3% of all marks (83 of 2,520) | ||||||||
Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues | ||||||||||
| Computing related legislation | Computing related legislation, June 2017: none | Computing related legislation, June 2019: none | Computing related legislation: comes up in 7 of 9 exam series, on 7 of 9 papers that cover it · 2.5% of all marks (64 of 2,520) | |||||||
| Moral and ethical Issues | Moral and ethical Issues, November 2021: none | Moral and ethical Issues: comes up in 8 of 9 exam series, on 8 of 9 papers that cover it · 2.2% of all marks (56 of 2,520) | ||||||||
Elements of computational thinking | ||||||||||
| Thinking abstractly | Thinking abstractly, June 2025: none | Thinking abstractly: comes up in 8 of 9 exam series, on 8 of 9 papers that cover it · 1.6% of all marks (41 of 2,520) | ||||||||
| Thinking ahead | Thinking ahead: comes up in 9 of 9 exam series, on 9 of 9 papers that cover it · 1.7% of all marks (42 of 2,520) | |||||||||
| Thinking procedurally | Thinking procedurally, June 2018: none | Thinking procedurally, November 2020: none | Thinking procedurally, June 2024: none | Thinking procedurally, June 2025: none | Thinking procedurally: comes up in 5 of 9 exam series, on 5 of 9 papers that cover it · 0.8% of all marks (21 of 2,520) | |||||
| 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: comes up in 4 of 9 exam series, on 4 of 9 papers that cover it · 0.3% of all marks (8 of 2,520) | ||||
| Thinking concurrently | Thinking concurrently, June 2019: none | Thinking concurrently, June 2022: none | Thinking concurrently, June 2024: none | Thinking concurrently, June 2025: none | Thinking concurrently: comes up in 5 of 9 exam series, on 5 of 9 papers that cover it · 1.4% of all marks (36 of 2,520) | |||||
Problem solving and programming | ||||||||||
| Programming techniques | Programming techniques: comes up in 9 of 9 exam series, on 17 of 18 papers · 15% of all marks (376 of 2,520) | |||||||||
| Computational methods | Computational methods: comes up in 9 of 9 exam series, on 9 of 18 papers · 4.1% of all marks (104 of 2,520) | |||||||||
Algorithms | ||||||||||
| Algorithms | Algorithms: comes up in 9 of 9 exam series, on 9 of 9 papers that cover it · 12% of all marks (293 of 2,520) | |||||||||