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AS Computing Paper 1

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Can anyone give me some suggestions about how to handle and prepare for the paper1 questions? I read the book and also understood the concepts but when I practise past papers I end up failing to describe the answers properly. I would appreciate if anyone gives me some tips so that I can answer them more precisely. If you have any other resource apart from Zafar Ali Khan's website, please share it here. Thanks in advance.
 
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for paper 1, just memorize the answers of markschemes...make sure u avoid improvising in the paper and writing answers from urself because its most likely that you wont meet the requirements of the question..do that only when the question is totally new which is seldom the case...also, aim for a high grade in AS coz the syllabus is simple and does not require much effort..this is important because projects are troublesome and tehre is no guarantee about how its going to be marked..i have seen my friends suffer because of it...better safe thn sorry.. GL
 
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for paper 1, just memorize the answers of markschemes...make sure u avoid improvising in the paper and writing answers from urself because its most likely that you wont meet the requirements of the question..do that only when the question is totally new which is seldom the case...also, aim for a high grade in AS coz the syllabus is simple and does not require much effort..this is important because projects are troublesome and tehre is no guarantee about how its going to be marked..i have seen my friends suffer because of it...better safe thn sorry.. GL
I am making notes using answers from mark scheme and then I will memorize them. Is this a good plan? Btw memorizing is really painful and none of my subjects require rot learning except computing. I hate memorization but for a good grade I have to do it, I guess.
 
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Do u have any good resource or links? Which is the best book for the subject? I am thinking of buying 'Computing Revision Guide by Tony Piper'. Is it a good book?
 
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yes that is true..no other subject requires this type of learning approach. And in almost every examiner report you will read, this approach is criticized.... Just be sure to add something extra to the answer so that the examiner doesn't get pissed at you.. also try to shuffle the vocabulary to make it seem original..
 
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