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Modern Application Development II: exam pattern and behaviour

Computed from every MAD2 paper on the practice site (137 papers, 2944 questions), with the topic weights, question types and how much repeats.

What a paper looks like

Exam	Papers	Years	Typical marks	Typical no. of questions	Share of questions	Share of marks	Papers with a comprehension block
Quiz 1 weeks 1-4	53	2022-2026	50	16	MCQ 77% / MSQ 21% / SA 2%	MCQ 80% / MSQ 19% / SA 1%	32%
Quiz 2 weeks 5-8	38	2022-2026	50	16	MCQ 73% / MSQ 27% / SA 0%	MCQ 78% / MSQ 22% / SA 0%	26%
End Term all 12 weeks	46	2022-2026	100	32	MCQ 72% / MSQ 28% / SA 0%	MCQ 76% / MSQ 24% / SA 1%	43%

Some uploads on the source site merge two parallel sets, which is why a few papers show double marks. MCQ = one right option, MSQ = one or more right options (strict marking), SA = type the number.

Which weeks the papers lean on

Week topic	Quiz 1	Quiz 2	End Term
1. JavaScript basics: values, functions and the DOM	100%	100%	100%
2. Advanced JavaScript: closures, promises and async/await	100%	100%	100%
3. The web frontend: SPAs, browser storage and tooling	17%	80%	95%
4. Vue basics: instances, directives and reactivity	100%	100%	100%
5. Vue with APIs: fetch, axios and lifecycle	17%	100%	100%
6. Advanced Vue: components, props, events and Vue Router	98%	100%	100%
7. State management with Vuex	49%	100%	100%
8. Token authentication, API design, CORS and cookies	26%	100%	100%
9. Asynchronous jobs: Redis and Celery	11%	80%	97%
10. Messaging: webhooks, server-sent events and email	4%	7%	97%
11. Performance: measuring and caching	30%	60%	100%
12. The project: putting it all together	9%	20%	27%

Share of papers whose concept summary mentions the week's topic (keyword match, so treat it as a guide, not a count of questions).

How much repeats

Exam	Papers	Exam dates	Question slots	Different questions	Copies of each (average)	Different questions seen on 2+ exam dates
Quiz 1	53	11	853	175	4.9	3 (2%)
Quiz 2	38	10	614	146	4.2	3 (2%)
End Term	46	13	1477	450	3.3	15 (3%)

Read this carefully. Within one exam date the parallel sets are drawn from the same pool, so each different question appears on several papers (the 'copies' column). Across different dates, questions with identical wording or identical figure files are rare. Matching here is exact, so a re-typed or re-cropped version counts as different; the real overlap in question type is much higher than this table can see. The takeaway: old papers teach you the types and stories that come back with new numbers, they are not a list of answers to memorise.

Questions that came back on a later exam date (exact match)

Exam dates it appeared on	Question (text-based ones)
10	Consider the following Vue application with markup “index.html” and JavaScript file “app.js”. Consider the following Vue application with markup “index.html” and JavaScri	open
5	Which of the following statement(s) is/are true regarding JavaScript language?	open
5	Consider the following JavaScript program, and predict the output if executed. Consider the following JavaScript program, and predict the output if executed. ```javascrip	open
4	Which of the following statement(s) is/are false regarding javascript language?	open
3	Consider the below Vue class binding and select the most appropriate option(s). ```html <div v-bind:class="[isClassA ? classA : '', classB]"></div> ```	open
2	THIS IS QUESTION PAPER FOR THE SUBJECT "DIPLOMA LEVEL: MODERN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT 2" ARE YOU SURE YOU HAVE TO WRITE EXAM FOR THIS SUBJECT? CROSS CHECK YOUR HALL TICKE	open
2	Consider the below Vue application with markup file “index.html” and javascript file “app.js”. Consider the below Vue application with markup file “index.html” and javasc	open
2	Consider the following Vue application with markup “index.html” and JavaScript “app.js” Consider the following Vue application with markup “index.html” and JavaScript “ap	open
2	Suppose you are organizing a ceremony to award the startup companies who have progressed considerably well in the past few years. You have received a lot of registrations	open
2	Which of the following statement(s) is/are true regarding javascript?	open

What an MAD2 paper is like

MAD2 is JavaScript first, Vue second, everything else third. Typical stems from the papers (paraphrased):

"Which of the following statements about the let, const and var keywords is true?"
"Consider the below JavaScript program and predict the output, if executed." (closures, this, hoisting, == vs ===, array methods)
"Which of the following statements about Vue 2 templates are correct?"
"Match the browser storage mechanisms with their characteristics." (cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB)
"Which of the following statements is false regarding the state of a web application?"
"What will the following Vue component render / log?" (props, $emit, lifecycle hooks, v-if vs v-show, computed vs methods)
"What happens when the following Vuex action is dispatched?"
"Which statement about Celery, Redis or caching is correct?"

Where the marks are

From matching the real questions (with the code in the screenshots transcribed) to the weeks:

Quiz 1 is dominated by JavaScript (weeks 1 and 2) and Vue basics (week 4); about three quarters of the questions involve code.
Quiz 2 keeps JavaScript and Vue basics and adds async JavaScript, Vue Router and components (week 6), Vuex (week 7), APIs and authentication (weeks 5 and 8).
End Term covers all weeks. JavaScript and Vue still carry most of the marks; asynchronous jobs, messaging and performance (weeks 9 to 11) show up as a smaller but real block, so do not skip them.

Watch out - real exam trap

this: it depends on how a function is called; arrow functions do not have their own.
Async order: synchronous code, then promise callbacks (microtasks), then timers (tasks). Practise predicting the order of console.log lines.
Vue reactivity: adding a new property or setting an array index directly does not trigger an update in Vue 2.
Vue lifecycle: which hook runs first, and what is available in created vs mounted.
Vuex: components change state through mutations (synchronous); actions commit mutations and may be asynchronous.
Storage: lifetime, size and who can read it (cookie sent to the server; web storage is not).

How to prepare

What the papers show

Order of attack: JavaScript (weeks 1 and 2) until you can predict output on sight, then Vue basics (week 4), then components and the router (week 6), then Vuex and APIs. Do the real questions for each week and keep a "mistakes" list: the same twenty traps account for most lost marks. Run the transcribed code in the browser console or in Node.