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Results Day: data from your international exams and the numbers behind progress

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022OxfordAQA
OxfordAQA's Head of Teaching and Learning support discusses how to use data from results day to bring our the best in students.

Let me start this article with a caveat. Whenever I talk to people about data from exam results, I nearly always end by saying that the most important thing to remember is that every piece of data in education represents a child: a young person in their most formative years, many of whom are dealing […]

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Prepare | Revise | Achieve: making the most of revision time

March 2, 2022March 9, 2022Hilary Sayer

After planning your time, it can be difficult to know where to start your revision. Our IB Prepared authors share three areas of focus to help you make the most of your time.

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Stepping up: 6 ways to manage the transition from International GCSE to International A-level

March 1, 2022March 30, 2022OxfordAQA
How can you support your students’ transition from International GCSE to International A-level? Our Head of Teaching and Learning Support Jamie Kirkaldy shares six key strategies.

The UK curriculum approach is somewhat of an outlier in the world of education in how it specialises at such an early stage, with students narrowing from maybe nine or ten subjects to just three or four as they transition from International GCSE to International A-level. There are no mandatory subjects so student choice is […]

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