Now that you’re making progress with your revision, our IB Prepared series authors have put together some tips for examination paper assessments.
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After reading the advance information for the 2022 June exam and the changes for 2022 published on the AQA website it appears that the main difference is to the writing exam format (Paper 4). In addition, there will be no requirement for vocabulary outside of the specification. The speaking, reading and listening exams remain the […]
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On 7th February 2022, Eduqas released the AI for exams this summer. This has raised a number of questions for most teachers of A level Religious Studies as we have tried to decide how to use this information to best help our students. Eduqas have stated that the purpose of this AI is to communicate […]
Read more The release of the Advance Information (AI) on 7th February 2022 brought a new flurry of activity and anxiety for most teachers of GCSE Religious Studies and questions have arisen as we have tried to decide how to use this to help our students. Eduqas have stated that the purpose of this AI is to […]
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Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Founder & CEO stem4 Winston Churchill is quoted as saying, ‘If you are going through hell, keep going’ – a depiction of the tenacity and determination he so clearly demonstrated for success. Given nearly two years of disruption through the pandemic, how can educators support their students to ‘keep […]
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You can find lots of great advice and practical support for students and parents on our A Level hub ! Goals are important and we all have them – and January is a very popular time to discuss them. In Year 13 your goals are likely to be things like “Do well in my A Level exams” or “Get […]
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Following on from her appearance on the Oxford Education Podcast, Zoe Enser explores metacognition in more detail and how student wellbeing can benefit from embedding these practices. As teachers we are often experts in thinking about our own learning processes. Having been generally successful in the education system, many of us have automated this and […]
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“…there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…” (United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002) The Latin origin of the word revision suggests the student must “look again”. Sadly, we know that just ‘looking’ at work again is of little use. However, I’d go further – the whole concept […]
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Aaron Wilkes joined us for a webinar discussing how the lockdown has affected the teaching and learning of GCSE History, picking up on the themes of consolidation, challenges and change.
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Adam Boxer, one of the authors of the new Oxford Revise: Revision and Practice series, explains how its Knowledge, Retrieval, Practice model leads to truly effective revision. If you’re anything like me, one of the questions you’ll be asked the most by students is how they should revise. Most students and parents don’t really know […]
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