plumiCharacter encoding: AQA GCSE Computer Science questions
Every AQA GCSE Computer Science exam question on 3.3.5 Character encoding, 2022–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 7 questions on Character encoding, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q07.1 (1 mark): Which statement describes a character set? Shade one lozenge. [1 mark] A A list of characters defining the access rights for a computer network B A list of char
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q07.2 (1 mark): State the binary value of the ASCII character b from Figure 1. [1 mark]
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q07.3 (1 mark): State the binary value of the ASCII character d [1 mark]
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q07.4 (2 marks): Which two statements about ASCII and Unicode are false? Shade two lozenges. [2 marks] A Unicode is an alternative character set to ASCII B Unicode represents a
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q11 (2 marks): The ASCII value for the character x is the decimal number 120 Complete Table 1 with the missing ASCII and Unicode values. [2 marks] Table 1 Character ASCII valu
- Specimen, Paper 2, Q01.5 (1 mark): Shade one lozenge to indicate which character is represented by the numeric code 70. [1 mark] A E B F C f D 6 E e
- Specimen, Paper 2, Q01.6 (2 marks): Unicode is an alternative to the ASCII coding system. State two advantages of using Unicode to represent characters instead of using ASCII. [2 marks] When data
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