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Helping students boost their motivation through online learning

February 22, 2021February 15, 2021Oxford Science Team 1 Comment
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Many of the students in my examination classes are struggling to engage in online learning and need ways to boost their motivation.  They are unsure of the merit of spending time learning new content and practicing examination questions, as they feel that their grades will be generated from data that has already been collected.  It […]

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Exam Insights 2019: first impressions of the GCSE Geography Edexcel B exam

July 15, 2019July 16, 2019Oxford Geography Team

So, just like that, another exam season is over and the GCSE Geography exams of 2019 are completed. With this being the second cohort of Year 11s to sit the reformed Geography specifications, I think that many Geography teachers were intrigued to see another set of live papers – what would be tested this year? […]

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What can we learn from the GCSE Geography exams?

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018Oxford Geography Team

The dust has finally settled on the 2018 exams; students have received their results and the examiners have now published their reports. We’ve done the hard work for you and read up on where GCSE students succeeded this year, and where they needed some help, and gathered together some resources from Oxford that could help […]

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