Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Starehe Girls’ Centre Computer Studies Paper 1 2025 Mock Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  The exam paper consists of two sections (A and B). It should be completed by learners within a duration of 2½ hours.

  The paper is intended for Form 4 learners and assesses knowledge, understanding, and application of Computer Studies concepts in line with the KCSE Computer Studies syllabus.

  It covers the following topics:

  • Data communication concepts, including multiplexing, baseband, analog and digital signals
  • Computer security and malware, including types of viruses
  • Word processing features and document formatting
  • Disk management, including partitioning and defragmentation
  • Computer hardware and system acquisition considerations
  • Operating systems, including booting issues and job scheduling
  • Data processing modes, including real-time and batch processing
  • Systems concepts, including soft systems, hard systems, and characteristics of systems
  • Flowcharts, pseudocode, and programming translators
  • Network topologies and basic networking concepts
  • Internet versus World Wide Web
  • Number systems, including binary-to-decimal conversion
  • User interfaces and user-friendly software features
  • Spreadsheet concepts, formulas, worksheets, and workbooks

  Section A contains short-answer questions testing breadth of theory, while Section B includes extended questions involving flowcharts, networking, systems analysis, operating systems, and spreadsheet/word-processing applications, where candidates answer selected questions as instructed.

• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  COMPUTER STUDIES

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