Technique read of the CS paper 1 placement (test #1, 2 h window, 52 marks, guide 90 min). Started 12:26 Sun 27 Sep, closed by Paige after 50 min — 70 of 120 min unused, 40 min under the 90-min guide. Order: Q1, Q7, Q8, Q10, Q14, Q16, Q17, Q6, Q15, Q19, Q2, Q12, Q13, Q18, Q20, Q21, Q22, Q4, Q5, Q11, Q3, Q9 — jumped around the paper, no flags. 0 typed blanks; Q12(2) 'i don't know', Q20(2) empty. Marks lost to technique rather than knowledge: Q18 0/3 — three correct test-data values with no 'what the program should do', a two-part instruction half answered; Q9 mark 3 — correct logic printed instead of stored in the named variable, and a premise ('age already holds a number') ignored; Q11 last mark — trace continued one pass after the condition was false. Time hog: none — Q9 ran 6 min on a 4-min guide and scored 2/3; every other question at or under its guide. No checking time: closed with 58% of the window unused and two sub-parts empty.
Next paper: before Start, read one line aloud — 'when a question asks for two things, answer both; when it names a variable, use it'. Watch whether the trace table stops at the false condition, and whether she uses any of the leftover time to check.
| Topic | Name | Change | Evidence recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | Not started → Not started | CS paper 1, 27 Sep: Q9 'store in a variable called price' answered with print statements; Q18 'give a value and state what the program should do' answered with values only — 4 marks lost to reading the instruction, not to knowledge. | |
| A5 | Not started → Not started | CS paper 1, 27 Sep: 22 questions, 0 typed blanks; 2 sub-parts empty (Q12b, Q20b), both on untaught content. | |
| T4 | Not started → Not started | CS paper 1, 27 Sep: closed after 50 of 120 min, 40 min under the paper's own guide, with two sub-parts empty and no checking pass. | |
| T2 | Not started → Not started | CS paper 1, 27 Sep: every question at or under its time guide except Q9 (6 min on 4); total 50 min against a 90-min guide — pace is not the problem on this paper. |