I know! I know! I know! Its been a while but I’ve been busy don’t you know? To which I can almost hear you, dear reader saying “Haven’t we all?” … This is the first of two three four blog posts about the language used in exams … I’ve split [...]
Following my previous post, below you will find topic lists of things that haven't made an appearance in papers 1 and 2 (all boards) and also “Bumper” practice papers for AQA and OCR of which there are 2 versions : “suitable for both tiers” albeit the start will just be [...]
I've written before about "the final countdown" that we have in place in the lead up to the exams so I'm not going to go over old ground and will cut to the chase! I'm also not going to have a rant about people making so called "predicted papers" … It worries [...]
If you've come here looking for me to bang on about how wonderful statistics is ... you've come to the wrong place - not that I don't love stats but now is not the time! I've been doing some analysis of the first 4 sittings of the new maths GCSE's [...]
Following paper 2 today I’ve been busy putting these papers and lists together using exam board questions (I'm not an examiner so I want my kids practicing "real" questions at this stage) … based on conversations/emails with Seager so once again this is a joint effort … someone on Twitter [...]
Now that the first Maths GCSE paper is finished we’ve got some time to breathe before paper 2, which means that tomorrow when you go into work you'll have time to do something proactive … so why not book your ticket to join us (and 250 other maths teachers) [...]
Over the last few months we've been working really hard to deliver something for maths teachers and students alike to use following the students completion of past papers.... Before that though .. a little background ... I've always gone through the papers after a test in a number of different [...]
I have a confession …. I know haters are gonna hate … but I’m going to tell you anyway! I’m not actually in the UK I’m sat in a hotel bar in the French Alps as I’ve managed to wangle the first week of term off as a holiday! It [...]
So we have something that we are working on (you may have noticed the QLA tab at the top of the page) but we can't decide on a name ... so this is your opportunity to help us! If we choose your name we'll give your school a free subscription [...]
This is the second post looking at the percentage of questions that were on both tiers in the first live sitting of the exam - part 1 included the stats from Pearson/Edexcels papers and this one is for OCR. As previously, I should remind you that “at least 20%” on [...]
