Past Papers
9618Cambridge A Levels

Computer Science Past Papers

12 exam sessions — 2019 to 2025

Exam Tips for Computer Science

  • 1Paper 1: 2's complement, floating point, Unicode — all tested annually.
  • 2Paper 2: OOP — write pseudocode for classes, inheritance, and polymorphism.
  • 3Paper 3: file handling, queues, stacks, linked lists — draw diagrams while solving.
  • 4Paper 4 (Practical): test your code in a real IDE — Cambridge accepts VB and Python.
  • 5Big-O: compare sorting algorithms — bubble O(n²), merge sort O(n log n), binary search O(log n).

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