Archive for the ‘Specifications’ Category

OCR Resources and Meetings

Monday, November 12th, 2007

  According to my email delivered on the 6th November  “OCR have produced Schemes of Work for the revised A Level qualifications, with a new approach piloted for a range of subjects. For these, we have adopted a ‘by teachers, for teachers approach, working with teachers from a number of different centres. ...

OCR Marking

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The following article was posted on TES in September, although I have only just spotted it. I was aware that the journalist Warwick Mansell was researching the article but missed it when it was published. The main concern is regarding the inconsistent marking of the core studies 2 (2541) paper for ...

New GCEs for 2008

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

This is certainly not new news for many teachers, but here are the urls for the new AS/A level specifications starting in September 2008. AQA (A) AQA (B) OCR Edexcel WJEC I know that many teachers are using the forthcoming changes to inform their decisions about which specifications they will be teaching in 2008. We would ...

Examinations Timetable

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

  For a quick check of exam dates and times, I use the modernisationonline site. I find it a lot quicker than searching the actual awarding body site. http://www.modernisationonline.org.uk/comptimetable