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Smart Revise AQA A level content update

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20 December 2024

The latest update to the AQA A level 7517 course brings an additional 186 all new, original “Advance” questions to Smart Revise, worth a total of 627 marks.

The new questions all requiring written answers from students span the entire course, increasing the available content for every topic. There is a good mix of one to twelve mark questions that include a range of the different command words: state, give, describe, explain, compare and more. Some questions are straightforward while many are taxing to target the full grade range of A*-E.

Questions are provided with mark schemes offering opportunities for self-guided marking, peer marking and AI marking too.

As always, these are original questions, not from past papers, giving students lots of additional practice material beyond what is provided by AQA Exampro. All the questions have been written by Alan Harrison an experienced teacher, computer science author and examiner, verified by Craig and Dave.

Available to students through Advance mode (if enabled by the teacher), and also for teachers to use when setting Tasks. New questions will be automatically interleaved with all the existing content providing one huge question bank.

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