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Seven most important P3 topics of Computing 9691

Seven topics when they appear hold approximately 30% of total P3 marks. This simply implies (looking at the latest threshold) that passing P3 exam becomes easier with proper understanding of these important topics. Most of the times 3 of these 7 topics co-appear and every one of them hold 10% approx marks of the total P3 marks. Check out the topical past papers and yearly past papers here . Names of the topics appear below in order they appear in syllabus: Interrupts Lexical analysis Fetch-Decode-Execute-Reset cycle 3.4(a-e); Mostly combined in a question as parts and mainly worked around floating point notations Bacus Naur form (can be combined with syntax diagram) Reverse polish and Infix notations Entity relationship diagram (ERD) View  9691/03 Statometer  to know the frequency of further P3 chapters and topics in past papers.