Once again I find myself screaming at my ‘pooter : “OI F**KWIT … MATHS IS DIFFERENT”. I can almost hear you saying to yourself “oh no! She’s gone off on one again”. Well, yes, yes I have. This morning I’ve been reading about remarks and the consultation from Ofqual which closed earlier this month. It … Read more
I agreed to get involved with the GLOW hub GCSE working party, looking at the new GCSE with other teachers (you may have seen the exam questions by topic I put together as part of this?); on Friday we had our second meeting and a few things came out of it: We were looking at … Read more
The below are all the HIGHER TIER questions collated by topic 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 … Read more
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
Please visit this post -> HERE for an updated version of all the questions on the foundation tier. Thanks
Please visit this post -> HERE for an updated version of all the questions on the foundation tier. Thanks
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
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
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
UPDATE: I have also included separated practice papers and worked solutions in the below post that OCR have published this week. They are also in the dropbox link along ( HERE ) with all the others. Having previously put my worked solutions to Edexcels SAMs ( POST HERE ) today’s offering is my worked solutions to the OCR … Read more
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