An early Christmas pressie

You may remember that I did some work collecting questions “by topic” on the new SAMs and practice paper. Well … now I know that I should have sought permission to use them from the exam boards (I have to say in my defence that it didn’t occur to me because they are readily available … Read more

STICKY! 9-1 Exam Questions by topic … Foundation – VERSION 3

The below are all the questions from: AQA – Sample Assessment Material and Practice set 1 and 2 OCR – Sample Assessment Material and Practice set 1 Pearson Edexcel – Sample Assessment Material, Specimen set 1 and Specimen set 2. WJEC Eduqas – Sample Assessment Material Please note that these questions have been copied/retyped from … Read more

More worked solutions

Last month Edexcel released their second set of specimen papers and in between other things when I’ve wanted to switch off I’ve been doing some maths and putting together worked solutions. I’ve put the solutions (along with previous solutions and copies of all the SAMs and specimens published to date) in the extras tab online … Read more

Bread and Butter 9-1

With our year 9 and 10 this year we are following the Edexcel 2 and 3 year schemes work (it seemed as good a place as any and I know the work that has gone into checking/double checking & triple checking it by the maths team – the format is also something we are used … Read more

AQA 1-9 SAM’s

So we get to the worked solutions (for those that prefer them to markschemes, or just want a “mosey” at the way my brain works mathematically!) for the sample assessment material from AQA. The first thing I’d say is that they published theirs as separate files and not all on one big file (brilliant!); The second thing … Read more

“New GCSE” … Tiering ….

Looking at the SAM’s at the minute and it’s dawned on me that it’d be worth making it clear some of the following from Ofqual’ s document ( THIS DOC  )that sets out amongst other things how awarding bodies must interpret the interpretation of subject content, how the tiering must work and also the use of … Read more

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