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Leaving Cert Computer Science: Heuristics

How often Heuristics comes up on the Computer Science papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 1 of the last 5 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2023.

Heuristics, Higher Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Heuristics.

(a)What is a heuristic?
  1. A method that is guaranteed to find the best possible answer
  2. A rule of thumb that finds a good-enough answer quickly
  3. A test that checks a program for syntax errors
(b)Always travelling to the nearest unvisited town in a delivery route is an example of?
  1. A brute-force search
  2. A binary search
  3. A heuristic
(c)Why use a heuristic instead of checking every possible solution?
  1. Checking every solution would take far too long
  2. Heuristics need no input data
  3. Heuristics always give the best solution
Show the answers

(a) A rule of thumb that finds a good-enough answer quickly

(b) A heuristic

(c) Checking every solution would take far too long

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Heuristics.

Higher Level

Asked on 1 of the last 5 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2023.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023B13
2022Not asked
2021Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

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