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A-LevelComputer ScienceFile HandlingOct/Nov 2022Paper 2 Q211 Marks

2 (a) An algorithm will process data from a test taken by a group of students. The algorithm will prompt and input the name and test mark for each of the 35 students. The algorithm will add the names of all the students with a test mark of less than 20 to an existing text file Support_List.txt,which already contains data from other group tests.

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About This A-Level Computer Science Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science (9618) Oct/Nov 2022 examination, Paper 2 Variant 2. It tests the topic of File Handling and is worth 11 marks.

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