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Why are you bringing exams back? Exams are the best and fairest form of assessment. What measures will be in place to make sure they are fair when different students have missed different amounts of time?
They include: A choice of topics or content on which students will be assessed in GCSE English literature, history, ancient history and geography. Changing requirements for practical science work and practical art and design assessments to ensure fairness. What about grading — are you making any changes to that? Results are likely to be higher than in , but not as high as in GCSE Re-marks If a student is unhappy with the marking of the autumn GCSE examination paper, they will be able to appeal or ask for a remark, just as they would have been able to in the summer series.
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AQA has around five multiple choice, 1 mark questions at the start and part way through the paper. This makes the questions accessible for all students to provide an answer, but you will need to prepare your students to make informed choices. AQA includes questions where students must select an option by ticking a box before being prompted to provide a reason on a clearly indicated set of lines.
OCR have these questions too and will often give short sentence prompts within the answer space to start students off. Edexcel have similar questions, but it will be stated that students must give reasons or show each stage of their working within the body of the text.
This allows you to create a bespoke scheme of work using resources provided for the specification, which has been broken down into statements and mapped to individual teaching resources. Once developed online, they are saved online for future adaptations and can be exported to Microsoft Word. Edexcel provides a series of schemes of work, including an interactive scheme of work which covers 1-, 2-, 3- or 5-year teaching, Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4 transition and low attainers support.
Each exam board offers support with resources in a variety of ways. They each have a website and subscriber platform where these can be accessed. Below is a list of resources provided free of charge by each exam board, as indicated on their websites. Edexcel provide exam practise support by presenting their questions in a variety of ways, such as by theme and levels of scaffolding, as seen in their gold, silver and bronze papers. These are great for easing teacher workload.
Shadow papers are particularly helpful when you wish to reassess students or to provide them with a paper which is the same as a past exam but with different numbers.
Though there may be a cost for some of the more intensive in-person training and workshops, much of the support provided by the exam boards to schools following their syllabus is free. Grade boundaries and final grades will differ for each exam series depending on analysis of how students have performed on the papers. Below is a comparison of the percentage of marks required for each grade on the series of papers that were sat in summer , the most recent summer exam series due to the cancellation of exams last year as an effect of the pandemic and subsequent lockdown.
Percentages in red show where a grade boundary has reduced in and a percentage in green shows where it has increased from For the foundation tier, it shows that OCR has lower grade boundaries.
For the higher tier, Edexcel has lower grade boundaries up to Grade 6 in , but it is similar across all three boards in In , it is notable that Edexcel reduced their boundaries for the majority of grades while they increased for AQA foundation and OCR higher tier.
Each exam board also provides additional published resources. Traditional textbooks are comprehensive in covering the specification, but are a big investment. Student books are shorter with exercises in smaller, bite-sized chunks. These are ideal for equipping students with additional practice to supplement in-class teaching.
From my experience, Edexcel Target Grade books are a cost effective resource and an ideal revision workbook for students as it contains worked examples and exercises, with space for students to write in the book. Mastering Mathematics and Problem Solving books are good sources for applied and interleaved questions, especially useful for increasing student exposure to questions in a variety of contexts.
There are a variety of other factors that should be taken into consideration when choosing a suitable exam board for your school.
Use the GCSE exam board comparison tables in this article to help make your decision. No matter which exam board you choose, it is the higher papers that are the hardest and will stretch your students the most. You will see that overall they provide the same supplementary resources but it is the nature of curriculum resources and exam paper style and format that will require careful consideration to inform your choice.
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