A question that came up in my
recent training event on GCSE Computer Science knowledge was about arrays in
the exam, specifically where students are presented with arrays in pseudo code.
Both AQA Computer Science and
OCR Computing start indexing their arrays in the exam from 1 instead of 0 as is
normal in most programming languages.
E.g.
scores <- [3, 6, 8, 2]
output (scores [1])
would want the answer 3 in the
exams.
Make sure your students are
aware of this – certainly my students took some reminding when doing past exam
questions that they need to count from 1 and not 0 in the exams.
Paul Fletcher
CAS Master Teacher
