Program Development Life cycle past paper questions

Computer Science 9618 · Software Development. Waterfall, iterative and rapid application development; principles, benefits and drawbacks; analysis, design, coding, testing and maintenance.

It came up in 16 of 104 papers, for about 4 marks a paper when it does. It last came up in October/November 2025.

Often set with Program Testing and Maintenance, Language Translators, Data Types and Records, Arrays.

18 questions, newest first

9618/22/O/N/25 Question 5 part (a) · 4 marks
9618/22/M/J/25 Question 1 parts (a(i)) (a(ii)) · 2 marks
9618/21/O/N/24 Question 5 part (a) · 5 marks
9618/23/O/N/24 Question 5 part (a) · 4 marks
9618/23/O/N/24 Question 7 part (a) · 2 marks
9618/21/M/J/23 Question 5 parts (a(i)) (a(ii)) · 3 marks
9618/23/O/N/22 Question 1 parts (b(i)) (b(ii)) (c(i)) (c(ii)) · 6 marks
9618/22/M/J/22 Question 1 part (b) · 4 marks
9618/23/M/J/22 Question 8 · 6 marks
9618/21/O/N/21 Question 5 part (b) · 1 mark
9618/22/O/N/21 Question 2 parts (b(i)) (b(ii)) · 5 marks
9618/23/O/N/21 Question 5 part (b) · 1 mark
9608/21/M/J/20 Question 4 part (b) · 3 marks
9608/23/M/J/20 Question 1 part (a) · 2 marks
9608/23/M/J/20 Question 5 part (d(i)) · 2 marks
9608/22/O/N/19 Question 2 part (a) · 3 marks
9608/21/O/N/17 Question 3 part (c(i)) · 3 marks
9608/23/O/N/17 Question 3 part (c(i)) · 3 marks

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