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Exam key terms

Typing practice for GCSE Computer Science

The vocabulary of WJEC GCSE Computer Science, one specification topic at a time, plus the operators and command words pupils have to type exactly.

Terms
361
Lessons
13
Spec code
3460QS

Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE Computer Science specification, first teaching 2025.

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A sample of what pupils type

One term from each topic in the pack, so you can judge the level before signing up. These are the real strings, straight out of the lessons.

  • current instruction register
  • American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
  • self-documenting identifier
  • software development life cycle
  • Boolean expression
  • backing store management
  • maintenance, support and refinement stage
  • conditional controlled loop
  • strengths and weaknesses
  • calculate
  • fetch-decode-execute cycle
  • human-machine interface
  • General Data Protection Regulation
  • mathematical operation
  • high level language
  • logical operator
  • disk encryption software

What the pack covers

Topics follow the specification's own content areas, so a teacher can set the one the class is on this week.

Understanding Computer Science

  • 1.1 Computer architecture
  • 1.2 How systems are structured and function
  • 1.3 How systems communicate
  • 1.4 Algorithms
  • 1.5 Software
  • 1.6 Logical operations
  • 1.7 Operating systems
  • 1.8 Systems development life cycle

Computer Programming

  • 2.1 Investigation and design
  • 2.2 Implementation
  • 2.3 Testing, refinement and evaluation

Command words and notation

  • 3.1 Command words and operators
  • 3.2 Writing pseudocode

How a lesson works

Each lesson has five parts drawn from its term pool, so nobody memorises one screen of text. The pass mark is 92 per cent accuracy, higher than the touch-typing course, because a misspelled technical term is a wrong answer rather than a slow one. Lessons do not lock, so pupils revise whatever they are covering in class.

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Where the terminology comes from

Each pack is curated from the published specification and the Guidance for Teaching for that qualification. We list individual subject terms only, and every definition and example sentence is written from scratch.

  • WJEC GCSE Computer Science Specification (Version 3 - September 2025)
  • WJEC GCSE Computer Science Guidance for Teaching: Unit 1 (Version 3 - March 2026)
  • WJEC GCSE Computer Science Guidance for Teaching: Unit 2 (Undated)

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