Results Plus – QLA – June 2016

I’ve put together the usual results plus QLA (question level analysis) sheets for the Edexcel 1MA01 June 2016 papers. As usual I have also attached instructions for how to get your download data into them and produce sheets for each student. There are two versions one where you can just produce sheets for specific students … Read more

Just Saying

Now that the Maths team at Edexcel are on Twitter ( @EmporiumMaths ) you can almost guarantee they’ll be the first to tweet out grade boundaries etc which they have done this morning. So before the barrage of tweets (they’ve already started) and blogs about grade boundaries, grade inflation, higher versus foundation, which exam board … Read more

ResultsPlus Templates – June 14

Here are the templates for you to use with the download data for the 1MA0 papers from Edexcel. along with the usual instructions about importing your data into the workbooks (here). There is also an additional version with some extra functionality to print multiple sheets (the brilliant Paul Pavlou (@UKMathsTeacher) did some tweaking on my original ones last … Read more

How do you define context?

I received an email today from Suzann Wells (from Samuel Whitbread Academy) about one of the June 2013 worksheets – the Box Plots one to be specific. Following this I have spent the last couple of hours trying to get my head around what defines context in terms of an exam answer, and how it is sometimes open … Read more

Weekend bullet-point blog

Well! It looks like Summer is here, so I’m trying to enjoy it while it lasts! This week gone in a whirl, so in my usual fashion here’s my week in bullet points: HAPPY =  Results are out and we have already SMASHED FFT D targets. Yes we’ve beaten them by a long way and still have … Read more

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