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 [...]
So paper 3 is done and dusted. 'Tis done. 'Tis finished. At just after 10:30 am this morning I could almost feel maths teachers everywhere breathing a massive sigh of relief. (I promise I will write up my experience of sitting the exam as an external candidate but time ... [...]
I've joked from the very introduction of the new GCSE that I wanted to sit the exam with the year 11 group that would be sitting it for the very first time ... well .. I've only gone and flipping entered! The idea is not to prove that I can [...]
Back in December 2015 the DFE published a document -> GCSE_Early_Entry_Guidance that clarified some rules about "early entry" - you may remember when new early entry rules for key stage 4 qualifications were announced on September 29 2013 (I remember it well!) that only a pupil’s first entry to a key stage 4 qualification [...]
COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED ... THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT ENTERED I’ve only gone and convinced Mel it’s about time to dig out her hat again and offer some free tickets to the JustMaths Conference in June. Back in the Summer term when we were about to launch the ‘Super 60’ [...]
