plumiLanguages and translators: OCR GCSE Computer Science questions
Every OCR GCSE Computer Science exam question on 2.5.1 Languages and translators, 2022–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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Q7(a)
The whole paper ↗Q7(b)
The whole paper ↗Q1(a)
The whole paper ↗Q4(b)(ii)
The whole paper ↗Q5(a)
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All 6 questions on Languages and translators, as a list
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q7(a) (2 marks): Give two reasons why some programs are written in a low-level language. 1 2 [2]
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q7(b) (3 marks): Describe the benefits of using a compiler instead of an interpreter when writing a program. [3]
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q1(a) (4 marks): The table contains four statements about programming languages. Tick (3) one box in each row to identify whether each statement describes a low-level programmin
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q4(b)(ii) (5 marks): Complete the description of programming languages and translators by writing the correct term from the box in each space. continues crashes debugging error exec
- Specimen, Paper 2, Q5(a) (1 mark): State why the computer needs to translate the code before it is executed. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. [1]
- Specimen, Paper 2, Q5(b) (4 marks): Either a compiler or an interpreter can translate the code. Describe two differences between how a compiler and an interpreter would translate the code. 1 ..………
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