Significant levels of entitlement without the responsibility.

I found this one fun for entitlement this week: www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/kirs...

Earns £150,000 a year, £80,000 in savings, and can't afford to pay for taxis...

This would be the means. I'll take a look at it at some point, I hope! :)

I've also added some links to the Backward Faded Exam Papers page. AQA's Example-Problem Past Papers and Pearson have added something called Model-Solve Exam Practice Pairs. They look familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Changing rooms between each lesson is crazy! I lived it for a while, and wouldn't like to go back to it.

Thank you :)

I agree when it comes to exams, and preparation for actual exams, but (in my opinion) if there are significant parts of a question that a learner can't attempt, teach them that content before setting the question.

I'm not sure about that. Maths doesn't have 16 markers and questions aren't designed in the same way.

In mocks and exams, I'm all for that, but with exam practise definitely not.

I don't dislike this, but I can't help feel that the other questions are a waste of paper, as they're unlikely to return to them when they have been taught them.

Unless, of course, I'm wrong. Mrs Taylor tells me that a lot, so I could be wrong!

This is my uncertainty. I definitely think they need to be amended for content with Y10, and there are ways to do so to maintain accuracy with grades, but then do Y10 need exam paper practice prior to this? That would also need to be amended.

It was clear.

The domain-specific stuff comes first in my mind, and has to in order to actually have methods to answer questions.
The method selection, switching between topics, comes later when learners have methods to choose from.

I'm not sure how late, though.

I think the method selection comes later. You can't select which method to use if you don't have a variety of methods to choose from.

How much later, I'm not sure.

There are a number of banks of questions, both paid and unpaid, that you can use to collate focused worksheets. As a proud Yorkshireman I'd be going unpaid, creating a 2 by 2 table on a landscape Word document, and giving 4 or 8 questions regularly instead of full papers.

Organising staffed in-school sessions for past papers, providing video walk-throughs or example-problem past papers will provide learners with some support, but those questions assessing content that they haven't learnt yet isn't as helpful as a high success rate.

Replace past papers with domain-specific exam practise - topic tests, or putting together sets of questions from past papers - based on topics recently taught to give exam practise with high expectations, providing learners with success that they can build on.

I understand, and agree, that familiarity with exam papers is important, but I think that familiarity with exam questions is more important than with full papers until quite late in the year.

Those kids who just got 34 out of 100 in their Year 10 mock were not ready for a full paper, and the summer wasn't magically transformative in terms of their understanding of maths.

A departmental policy of using pre-determined questions at the beginning of the lesson, and (as Sam said) it means that the latecomers don't miss out on the most important bit - the retrieval aspect of learning content.