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A-LevelComputer ScienceObject-Oriented ProgrammingMay/June 2025Paper 3 Q128 Marks

(a) A medical clinic uses objects of the class Patient to assign a priority and a doctor to a patient. Some of the attributes required in the class are listed in the table. Attribute | Data type | Description PatientID | STRING | Unique identifier of the patient Name | STRING | Patient's full name, surname first DoctorID | STRING | ID of doctor administering treatment Treatment is prioritised with a numeric scale of 1 to 5. Complete the class diagram for Patient, to include: • attribute and data type for the date of birth • attribute and data type for the priority • methods to assign the patient ID, priority and doctor ID • methods to return the patient ID, patient date of birth and the priority. [Incomplete Class Diagram for Patient]

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This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science (9618) May/June 2025 examination, Paper 3 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Object-Oriented Programming and is worth 8 marks.

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