J277 Paper 2 Specification

Active Topic Review

Data Types & Additional Programming

Understand
The FOllowing Concepts

Data Types and Additional Programming

Data Types
Integer
Real
Boolean
Character
String
Casting


Additional Programming

String manipulation and handling
Assignment
Concatenate
Traversal
Search
Copy

File manipulation and handling
Open
Read
Write
Close

SQL and databases
Records
SQL
SELECT
WHERE
FROM

Functions, procedures, and subroutines
Repeating code
Procedures and Subroutines
Functions
Code library

Random numbers
Use of random numbers
Python worked example
Python files in zip

Assessment Blueprint

OCR J277 Paper 2 Examination Breakdown

80 Marks

Total paper raw marks

50%

Weighting of overall GCSE

1h 30m

Written exam duration

Theory

Mandatory topic modules

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