This document provides revision tips and strategies for an upcoming Python exam. It recommends fully writing out definitions, revising daily or regularly for short periods, quizzing with others, practicing past challenge questions, using Codecademy for a refresher, and managing the exam sections carefully. Section A involves multiple choice, short response, and matching questions. Section B requires two coding questions that are fully completed, error-free, use variables and arrays properly, and compile correctly. Good communication skills are important, including commenting, indentation, and clear variable naming in coding questions.

1. 10 IT Python Revision – Lesson, Thursday 5th
Sept
1. Look at the Revision sheetas a representation of the exam questions only – but not the
exam questions themselves!
2. Revision strategies / tips: What works for you?
a. Write down / type a full list of definitions from the breakdown.
b. How often will you go over it?Each day? Regularly for 10 mins each night for
example?
c. Quiz with parents etc.
(All the Above - off the revision sheet)
d. Going back over past challenge questions.
e. Also, there are practise 2009 challenge questions on ed portal. You haven’t done all
of them! 
f. Codecademy python (refresher)
3. Exam management– (Digital) 70 mins. How will you approach the following?
a. Section A - Knowledge & Application
i. MCQ, Short Response,
ii. Fill in the blank,
iii. Matching pairs etc.
b. Section B - Analysis & Synthesis
i. Q 1 – Beginner & Intermediate
ii. Q2 – Intermediate only
For Section B we want:
– Full and complete
– error free (logic & syntax),
– Proper use of variable and arrays; use of IF, FOR, WHILE etc.
– Compiling code that does the job required!
You will be able to use Python Shell IDLE in the exam to run and test your code like in 2009 challenge
Questions!
c. Communications – grammar, sentence structure are a given! You must do this well
in every exam you complete. But when talking about code:
i. Commenting
ii. Indentation
iii. Variable naming