Data Types and Records: past paper questions

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• Question 9May/June 2026, paper 21Structured18 marksHas a diagram

  A hotel has three floors numbered 0 to 2 (floor 0 is the ground floor). There are 15 rooms on each floor. The hotel gets many enquiries from customers to check if a room is available that day.

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• Question 3Oct/Nov 2025, paper 21Structured9 marks

  A program is needed to manage individual rentals in a car-hire business.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2024, paper 21Structured9 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. 1 A program will calculate the tax payable based on the cost of an item.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2023, paper 21Structured11 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators.

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• Question 8May/June 2026, paper 23Structured19 marksHas a diagram

  A warehouse stores stock in bins. A bin is a container which stores the stock items; each bin can store many identical items. The warehouse is organised on three different levels – level 0 (ground level), then level 1 and level 2.

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• Question 8Oct/Nov 2025, paper 21Structured17 marks

  A program is being developed to manage student book loans from a college library. Students may borrow up to five books at a time from the library. The programmer has defined a record type to define each loan.

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• Question 4Oct/Nov 2024, paper 21Structured10 marks

  4 A program includes the following assignment statement: Result ← STR_TO_NUM(x) / STR_TO_NUM(y) When the program evaluates the expression in the statement, it performs a calculation. Variable Result is of type real and variables x and y are of type string.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2023, paper 22Structured11 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. 1 A shop sells car accessories. A customer order is created if an item cannot be supplied from current stock.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2025, paper 22Structured11 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. The table contains pseudocode examples. Each example may contain statements that relate to one or more of: • selection • iteration (repetition) • subroutines (procedures or functions).

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2024, paper 22Structured9 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. A program has been developed and released for general use. After a few months of use an error is detected where under certain circumstances it outputs an unexpected value.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2023, paper 23Structured11 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. A program is being developed in pseudocode before being converted into a programming language. The following table shows four valid pseudocode assignment statements.

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• Question 8Oct/Nov 2025, paper 22Structured18 marks

  A program is being developed to manage student book loans from a college library. The programmer has defined a record type to define each loan.

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• Question 8Oct/Nov 2024, paper 22Structured18 marks

  A program is being developed to implement a game for up to six players. During the game, each player assembles a team of characters. At the start of the game there are 45 characters available.

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• Question 7Oct/Nov 2023, paper 23Structured7 marksHas a diagram

  A structure chart shows the modular structure of a program: [Structure Chart showing Module-A() calling Sub-Y1() with parameter T1, calling Sub-Y2() with…

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2024, paper 23Structured10 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. The following table contains pseudocode examples. Each example may contain statements that relate to one or more of the following: • selection • iteration (repetition) • subroutine (procedure or function).

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• Question 2Oct/Nov 2023, paper 43Structured29 marks

  A linear queue is implemented using the 1D array, Queue. The index of the first element in the array is 0.

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• Question 1May/June 2025, paper 21Structured12 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. 1 A program is being developed to help the manager of a shop control the stock. An identifier table has been used during the design stage.

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• Question 3May/June 2023, paper 21Structured11 marks

  Customers collect points every time they make a purchase at a store. A program is used to manage the points system and the table lists some of the information stored for one customer.

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• Question 7May/June 2025, paper 22Structured18 marks

  A program is being developed to implement a customer loyalty scheme for a coffee shop. Each customer has a unique customer ID starting at 10001 with this value increasing by one each time a new customer joins the loyalty scheme.

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• Question 1May/June 2024, paper 21Structured11 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. An algorithm is developed in pseudocode before being coded in a programming language. The following table shows four valid pseudocode assignment statements.

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• Question 1May/June 2023, paper 22Structured10 marks

  Refer to the insert for the list of pseudocode functions and operators. A program calculates the postal cost based on the weight of the item and its destination. Calculations occur at various points in the program and these result in the choice of several possible postal costs.

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• Question 1May/June 2025, paper 23Structured14 marks

  A program is being developed for the management of a sports centre. The programmer developing the software decides to use modules (procedures or functions) and local variables. They also decide not to use global variables.

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• Question 3May/June 2024, paper 22Structured9 marks

  A factory needs a program to help manage its production of items. Data will be stored about each item. The data for each item will be held in a record structure of type Component.

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• Question 2May/June 2023, paper 22Structured9 marks

  A program stores a user's date of birth using a variable MyDOB of type DATE. Write a pseudocode statement, using a function from the insert, to assign the value corresponding to 17/11/2007 to MyDOB.

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• Question 3May/June 2024, paper 23Structured9 marksHas a diagram

  A record structure is declared to hold data relating to components being produced in a factory: TYPE Component DECLARE Item_ID : STRING DECLARE Reject : BOOLEAN DECLARE Weight : REAL ENDTYPE The factory normally produces a batch (or set) of 1000 components at a time.

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