Former examination board Maths Adviser. Occasional comments about UK exams. No longer posting here.

Essex, England
Joined March 2020
Replying to @CottinghamAmber
You can find more detailed data for Pearson (eg by tier, sex, age, centre type) on the emporium; I don’t think other boards (or indeed JCQ) provide it mathsemporium.com/category/g…
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Replying to @MathsNot @pearson
As perhaps expected, I’ve now been sent a link to the grade statistics page - which doesn’t have the information requested. You could look it up on iSeries, it would take about a minute.
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Treasury protestors outside the OBR offices
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Financial literacy? Oh, the maths teachers can do that
Usual questions: what exactly comprises financial education, teach it instead of what, and which subject teachers will be expected to cover it? (I fear I know the answer to the third one)
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Good luck to all those Year 12 resitting Foundation tier GCSE Maths this week - remember, about 10,000 students will achieve Grade 4 or better this time round, so be one of them! Make it the shortest “endless cycle” ever known
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Maths round on Impossible!
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I see the “endless treadmill” is now a “demoralising roundabout” “Baroness Smith also said a new qualification would be introduced as an alternative to GCSE resits, helping students who ‘too often have been on this demoralising roundabout of taking exams and failing them’.”
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Modular GCSEs ✅ GCSE Linked Pair Pilot ✅ Study of 4 AS levels ✅ Year 12 modular assessments ✅
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