Hey you … yep I’m still here writing up what we can garner from examiners reports and this time you’ll find some of the key points from AQA’s GCSE Higher Paper 1. Overall, there was a big sense that the paper was incredibly stable … the mean score was within one mark of last year, … Read more
This is the second in a series of posts about literacy in maths. I mentioned in my previous post that this post would explain more about tier 1, 2, and 3 words and also include some further analysis in relation to the higher tier papers. If you are looking for a place to start in … Read more
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 it because otherwise it’d be … Read more
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 for all the boards and … Read more
Me and the boys met this week to start thinking about specific details for the June conference at Alton Towers – during this meeting I just sat thinking “what will Seager get us doing this time?”. Every school I’ve been in does those teacher skits at the end of the year and I hate them … Read more
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 wasn’t as simple as saying … Read more
You can tell I’m lost for inspiration for a blog post title when the best I can come up with is “something else” … but then again I never rarely plan what I am going to write when blogging. I genuinely do just sit here and type whatever comes to mind. Of course, I have … Read more
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 to JustMaths online!! In order … Read more
As usual I’m sharing excel workbooks that you can use to analyse your cohort level data from Edexcels ResultsPlus … unfortunately these ones don’t have the “multiprint” option (…yet! … I’m working on it!) but I’ve put a blank version in the workbook too as we’ve always printed the blank versions off and got students … Read more
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