Welcome to GCSEComputing.org, a non-endorsed support site for:

• The GCSE Computing course offered by the OCR Examination Board from September 2010 onwards as a pilot and from September 2011 onwards as a standard GCSE.

• The planned AQA, WJEC and EDEXCEL GCSE Computing Science courses.

OCR Course Components:

• Unit A451: Computer systems and programming
  
  • Written examination paper: a mixture of short and long answer questions, some of which will require candidates to write program code. 
  • Duration - 1.5 hours (40% of the qualification)
• Unit A452: Practical investigation
  
  • Controlled assessment: an investigative task, candidates carry out a practical investigation of a topic chosen from a set of options supplied by OCR.
  • Duration - Approximately 20 hours (30% of the qualification)
• Unit A453: Programming project
  
  • Controlled assessment: candidates create solutions to computing tasks chosen from a set of options supplied by OCR.
  • Duration - Approximately 20 hours (30% of the qualification)