STICKY! 9-1 Exam Questions by topic … Foundation – VERSION 3

The below are all the questions from: AQA – Sample Assessment Material and Practice set 1 and 2 OCR – Sample Assessment Material and Practice set 1 Pearson Edexcel – Sample Assessment Material, Specimen set 1 and Specimen set 2. WJEC Eduqas – Sample Assessment Material Please note that these questions have been copied/retyped from … Read more

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

Sunday morning quickie

Not “that” kind of quickie. Mucky minds people! This is a quick blog post as it doesn’t really fit into any of the other three posts that I currently have word documents open for … expect a deluge later today. I’ve also had a nightmare with a memory stick that means I’ve lost a load of … Read more

Having a rummage …

Just a quick post … OK … I’m sat shaking my head as I know that it’s just not going to be the case … So this evening I thought I had better do some “actual” lesson planning and so I jumped onto the Edexcel emporium – there are other exam boards available and I … Read more

ResultsPlus June 2015 – GCSE

Once again I’ve put together some templates for you to import your ResultsPlus data into if your students did the Edexcel 1MA0 series in June. It makes it easy to produce each students question level analysis on one sheet (rather than the, what seems like 100’s from the ResultsPlus service online!) for each student. Here … Read more

GCSE 9-1 – Content changes 1

Lots has been written about the changes and with all the “hullaballoo” over the SAMs it seems apt to be able to document a definitive list (from my perspective) of the changes to content over the next 4 blog posts (this is 1 of 4) – the intention is that where there are significant changes … Read more

GCSE 9-1 New content – Error Intervals

One of the new topics in both tiers (for all boards) is “use inequality notation to specify simple error intervals due to truncation or rounding”. I don’t get how using the notation is that useful, but the programme of study (POS) does include “use and interpret limits of accuracy” and then note the bit about … Read more

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