GCSE Revision - Theory Pack

Contains 8 structured lessons with differentiated worksheets, summary of common mistakes with exam questions, assessment, and mark scheme to support GCSE student revise for the theory required for Paper 1.

Lesson PowerPoints covering:

• CPU components
• FDE cycle
• Performance factors
• Von Neumann
• RAM vs cache vs virtual memory
• Secondary storage devices
• Character representation
• Image representation
• Sound representation
• Compression
• Binary conversion
• Hexadecimal conversion
• Binary addition
• Binary shift
  Differentiated revision worksheets:
• Spots (lower ability)
• Stripes (higher ability)
• Research links
• Starter, main and challenge tasks
• Practice exam questions (answers in PowerPoints)
• Links to online crossword (answer password in PowerPoint)

Summary of Common Mistakes:

• Exam questions that are commonly answered incorrectly (e.g. “binary is the only language the computer understands”
• Clear reasons for the misconception
• Correct answers

Assessment:

• Assessment lesson PowerPoint
• Review lesson PowerPoint (with recap task
• based on common mistakes)
• Assessment paper
• Mark scheme (with examiner comments)
• Review sheet

Note - worksheets are downloaded PDFs from OneNote and may require some formatting before use