plumiStoring characters: OCR GCSE Computer Science questions
Every OCR GCSE Computer Science exam question on 1.2.4b Storing characters, 2022–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 6 questions on Storing characters, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q6(a) (2 marks): Write the binary code to represent the word POP using ASCII. [2]
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q6(b) (2 marks): A new computer is being built. Identify one benefit and one drawback of the computer using Unicode instead of ASCII. Benefit Drawback [2]
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q3(a) (5 marks): One form of data is characters. Complete the description of how computers represent characters in binary using the given list of terms. Not all terms will be us
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q6(b)(i) (1 mark): The computer stores text using the ASCII character set. Part of the ASCII character set is shown: ASCII denary Character code M 77 N 78 O 79 P 80 Q 81 Identify
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q6(b)(ii) (1 mark): Identify a second character set. [1]
- Specimen, Paper 1, Q6 (2 marks): The table gives the ASCII code for the characters. Character ASCII code L 76 M 77 N 78 O 79 P 80 Explain how the word MOP will be represented in ASCII. ……………………
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