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A-LevelComputer ScienceProgramming ConstructsMay/June 2025Paper 2 Q38 Marks

A student has been asked to create a simple guessing game program. This program will generate a random integer value between 1 and 100. It will then repeatedly prompt the user to input an integer value until they input the randomly generated value. The student has written a structured English description: step 1 - randomly generate an integer value between 1 and 100 inclusive step 2 - prompt the user to input an integer value step 3 - output an appropriate message if the value input was too high; then repeat from step 2 step 4 - output an appropriate message if the value input was too low; then repeat from step 2 step 5 - output an appropriate message if the value input was the same value that was randomly generated; then end the program. Write a pseudocode algorithm from this structured English description. Assume no input validation is needed.

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About This A-Level Computer Science Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science (9618) May/June 2025 examination, Paper 2 Variant 1. It tests the topic of Programming Constructs and is worth 8 marks.

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