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Every OCR A-Level Computer Science exam question on 1.2.4 Types of programming language, 2021–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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Q4(a)
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Q4(b)
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Q4(c)
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Q1(d)(i)
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Q1(d)(ii)
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Q1(e)
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Q1(f)
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Q4(c)
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Q4(a)
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Q9(b)(iii)
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Q9(e)
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Q1(c)(i)
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Q1(c)(ii)
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Q2(g)(i)
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Q2(g)(ii)
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Q6(a)(ii)
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Q6(b)
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Q6(c)
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Q6(d)
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All 21 questions on Types of programming language, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q4(a) (3 marks): State the LMC command that would be used for each description given in the table. Description LMC Command Load the value stored in the memory address into the a
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q4(b) (4 marks): Kofi has been asked to write a program that inputs two numbers and then outputs the largest of the two numbers. Write the code for this program using the LMC in
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q4(c) (12 marks): Kofi is a software engineer and has been asked to write some code using the Little Man Computer (LMC) instruction set. (c)* Kofi is working on a number of proje
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q1(d)(i) (3 marks): State the five outputs that Orla’s code would give. Output 1 Output 2 Output 3 Output 4 Output 5 [3]
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q1(d)(ii) (4 marks): Orla has rewritten her LMC code to fix the error and added an additional DAT. Complete the LMC code to output the first five correct numbers in the Fibonacci se
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q1(e) (3 marks): In Orla’s LMC code, she used direct memory addressing. Give three other modes of memory addressing. 1 2 3 [3]
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q1(f) (2 marks): Since the development of high level languages, the use of assembly languages has reduced. Give two reasons why in some circumstances programmers will choose to
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q9 (5 marks): OCR DogCare look after dogs while their owners are at work. They use a program developed in an object-oriented paradigm to store details about each dog. Each do
- June 2024, AS Paper 1, Q4(c) (6 marks): The pseudocode algorithm here will take in two numbers from the user, multiply them together using addition and output the result. For example, 4 multiplied by
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q4(a) (4 marks): Describe two differences between assembly language and high-level languages. Difference 1 Difference 2 [4]
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q9(b)(iii) (2 marks): Describe the object-oriented programming technique being used in part 9(b)(ii). [2]
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q9(e) (4 marks): Describe two benefits of using an object-oriented paradigm rather than a procedural paradigm. 1 2 [4]
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q1(c)(i) (3 marks): The program shown in Fig. 1 is run once using three different inputs. Therefore, while the program is running once, it will output the updated total three times
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q1(c)(ii) (4 marks): Write LMC code that will reset the value of the memory location labelled total to zero and then stop the program. [4]
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q2(g)(i) (7 marks): Write program code or pseudocode to declare the class video and initialise the required attributes as private. You should include both the attribute definitions
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q2(g)(ii) (2 marks): A public method called updateviews() will update the number of views after a video has been viewed. This method is defined inside the video class. Write program
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q6(a)(ii) (2 marks): Explain how the accumulator is used when the line BRP pos is executed. [2]
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q6(b) (4 marks): Complete the table below to show the output(s) from this program given the inputs. Inputs Output(s) 12, 5 18, 2 16, 4 3, 7 [4]
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q6(c) (4 marks): Write an algorithm using pseudocode that has the same functionality as the code in Fig. 1. [4]
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q6(d) (12 marks): A program written using the Little Man Computer instruction set is shown in Fig. 1. INP STA numone INP STA numtwo main LDA numone SUB numtwo BRP pos notpos LDA
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q7(c)(i) (3 marks): State the meaning of each of the following terms: Object Method Attribute [3] Each worker has a name and an attendance figure which can be between 0 and 100.
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