Examination Board: OCR 

What Will I learn?

Computer Science is a practical subject where you can apply the academic principles learned in the classroom to real-world systems. It’s an intensely creative subject that combines invention and excitement, and can look at the natural world through a digital prism. The aims of this qualification are to enable you to develop: 

• An understanding and ability to apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including: abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms and data representation.
• The ability to analyse problems in computational terms through practical experience of solving such problems, including writing programs to do so.
• The capacity to think creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically.
• The capacity to see relationships between different aspects of computer science .

 
 How Am I Assessed?

You will be assessed through 2 methods; examinations and non-exam assessment.

Components 1 and 2 (Computer Systems and Algorithms and Programming) are externally examined.

Component 3 (Programming Project) are internally assessed and externally moderated through non-exam assessment. You will choose a computing problem and the work that is produced is assessed by a member of staff and then externally moderated by the exam board.
 

What Career Options Do I Have?

The course will prepare you for job roles such as; Computer Games Developer, Forensic Computer Analyst, Computer Games Tester, Robotics Engineer, Database Administrator, Software Developer.