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A-LevelComputer ScienceObject-Oriented ProgrammingMay/June 2025Paper 3 Q118 Marks

A medical centre uses objects of the class Appointment to record treatments given and medication prescribed during each doctor's appointment. Some of the attributes required in the class are listed in the table. Attribute | Data type | Description DateSeen | DATE | date of treatment Treatments | STRING | treatments given Medications | STRING | medications prescribed Patients are identified by a unique 8-digit number, beginning with the patient's year of birth, for example, 20108989. Doctors are identified by their name, for example, A N Other. [Figure with partial class diagram for 'Appointment']

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About This A-Level Computer Science Question

Topic

This structured question tests Object-Oriented Programming in A-Level Computer Science (syllabus code 9618). It is worth 8 marks.

Source

This question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science May/June 2025 examination, Paper 3 Variant 1.

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