“Demonstrate” — what the examiner wants
How to answer a Cambridge Computer Science question that starts with Demonstrate (2210, 0478 & 9618): Cambridge's definition, what a full-mark answer contains, the mistake that loses the mark.
Cambridge's definition
“show how or give an example”
What earns full marks
Prove the point with a worked example or a concrete case — code, a trace, a diagram, a calculation.
What loses the mark
Asserting that something is true without showing it happening.
A question that uses it
Demonstrate, using an example, how a logical shift can be used to multiply a binary number by 2.
In real past papers
None of the current-syllabus questions in the bank opens with this word yet — it is in the syllabus list, so it can still be set.
Don't confuse it with
The definition follows the command-word table in the Cambridge syllabus; the guidance is ZAK's. Statistics come from the real past-paper question bank (command words are read from each question's wording). Command words and past papers are © Cambridge Assessment International Education.