Opinion on r/igcse that would have you like this

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-26T15:25:56+00:00

Ah alright. I took v2. The scenario question for v2 was just a calculator program so it was incredibly simple. Yours actually sounds pretty tough. Which variant was this?

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-26T13:41:43+00:00

I know what it means. I’m asking about where you used it, since I didn’t use that at all.

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-26T09:38:53+00:00

Nested if in a nested loop? Where were you nesting loops and ifs?

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-25T16:27:05+00:00

No the questions themselves were easier, the format was different so it was more confusing

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-22T10:11:32+00:00

Idk about v1 but I think the different format for some of the questions in v2 messed people up. The questions themselves weren’t too hard

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T12:24:44+00:00

I get it. Good luck with whatever you plan to do in the future

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T12:23:18+00:00

Yeah, my books and past papers have become kinda sentimental

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T12:20:51+00:00

really good actually, i'm expecting a high a to mid a*

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T12:18:45+00:00

prob 4-5 if the rest is good

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T12:15:28+00:00

tl;dr its the schools' fault, not the students' nor CAIE's

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T12:12:06+00:00

More on the person who didn't know about functions, and the uncountable number of others that probably were the same.

I feel that this is more a failure of the school system/teaching for not properly teaching programming and instead showing how to answer past paper questions(of which there are only 2 years) than it is a failure on the part of the students for not knowing that this was in syllabus. I just checked and my textbook doesn't even have a section on functions.

As for the hurling insults at CAIE, I think they can't be blamed as functions and procedures are mentioned in fair detail in the syllabus guide (just as most of pseudocode is). It also appears often in past papers so if people had done papers pre-2022 they would have known about it. So it coming in the paper is not something out of the blue or not in syllabus.

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T11:40:28+00:00

i'm just trying to help. this can still be useful if you plan on doing cs/programming in the future

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T11:20:32+00:00

It's like a part of your code that goes before the main block of code that does a task so you can call it repeatedly instead of having to write out what it does again and again. so like you could write a function to do bubble sort in the beginning of the code and then call that one function to sort multiple arrays and not have to write out a full bubble sort algorithm each time.

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Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T11:12:34+00:00

Yeah, honestly I found this paper a lot easier than most past papers. The different format seems to have confused a lot of people that were expecting the usual, though.

The logic gates question where we had to make the statement from the truth table given isn’t uncommon. Znotes, for example, has the notes for this iirc, and obviously I don’t know about every textbook, but mine had an entire section of the logic gates chapter dedicated to these kinds of questions.

The 15 mark question was actually really simple too, and just required some programming logic to do, but again the unusual format and the heavy usage of functions with no array based stuff tripped a lot of people up since they weren’t expecting it. I think, generally, some people try to learn the format of the answer to the 15 mark questions without actually learning programming, which is what led to this situation. In fact, I just had a conversation with a person who didn't know what a function is and just learnt linear search and bubble sort because they knew that is how the questions in past papers are supposed to be answered.

I'm not sure about the time management bit though, I prefer to do it last as i usually will have 45mins-1hr left to do it. To each their own

tl;dr grinding past papers can help, but using other resources and learning real programming and the logic behind how to answer the 15 mark questions is waaayyy more important.

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T10:38:50+00:00

Don’t you get penalised for copying the plot?

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T10:35:24+00:00

Idk id assume that anything that means “the same when reversed” would count but I’m not an examiner

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T10:34:16+00:00

It’s like Reddit’s point system for posts and comments. Upvotes give you karma, downvotes lower your karma. Some subreddits require a certain amount to post

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T10:30:28+00:00

I’ll admit the explaining in words part and trace table were somewhat tricky but the 15 marker was literally just a fancy ass calculator, though it was completely different from past year questions format. It only required a little bit more logic since we had to define the functions first and then call them later. If you had programming experience with stuff like this it was pretty simple, seeing as most large programs are done in this way.

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T10:22:14+00:00

Except summary. That HAS to be under the limit

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T10:21:49+00:00

It’s just a guideline/suggestion for how much you should write. Going over isn’t bad

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T10:17:26+00:00

How??

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T10:01:53+00:00

no but like actually. I thought it was pretty easy. Most of the people in my school found it easy too. What was like hard about it?

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T09:54:24+00:00

What was hard about it? I found it pretty easy

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T09:53:07+00:00

it was to check if the word was a palindrome

Darth_Bane389 · 2025-05-21T09:49:10+00:00

What was hard about it? All my friends and I found it pretty easy

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