ICSE 2014 Computer Applications Question Paper for Class 10

About this paper

This is the ICSE Class 10 Computer Applications (Theory) paper for 2014, paper code T14 861. It is a two-hour paper with fifteen minutes of reading time, and its two sections carry 40 and 60 marks. Section A has three compulsory questions of two-mark parts on Java basics: valid comments, packages, primitive data types, operator precedence, String and Math library methods, output prediction and correcting an array program. In Section B candidates write Java programs for any four of six questions, including a movieMagic class that rates films, a special two-digit number check, extracting a file path, name and extension, overloading area(), a bank deposit menu and a binary search. This copy has the questions only.

Exam

ICSE Class 10

Subject

Computer Applications

Year

2014

Paper code

T14 861

Maximum marks

100

Time allowed

2 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

9

Pages

7

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  40 marks

  Questions 1–3, all compulsory: twenty two-mark parts on Java concepts, output prediction and error correction

• Section B

  60 marks

  Questions 4–9, attempt any four; each asks for a Java program

Topics covered

• Java comments, packages and data types
• Operators and precedence
• Conditional statements and the ternary operator
• Loops
• Constructors
• Classes, objects and static variables
• String and Math library methods
• Wrapper classes
• Function overloading
• Arrays and binary search

Questions from this paper

1. What is meant by a package? Name any two Java Application Programming Interface packages.
2. Give two differences between the switch statement and the if-else statement.
3. What is a constructor? When is it invoked?
4. A special two-digit number is one where the sum of its digits added to the product of its digits equals the number (for example, 59: 14 + 45 = 59). Write a program to accept a two-digit number and report whether it is a special 2-digit number.
5. Using library functions, write a program to extract and output the path, file name and extension separately from the full file name C:\Users\admin\Pictures\flower.jpg.
6. Write a program to accept a year of graduation and use the binary search technique on a sorted array of ten years from 1982 to 2010 to output "Record exists" or "Record does not exist".