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

Pinch of Salt …

Prior to the release of the SAMs last week I received a message saying that Pearsons new “new” SAMs had been bounced back again. I’m not and never have been privy to the details but didn’t follow this up publicly (I do have some scruples!) for fear of scaremongering people and as it turned out … Read more

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