Background is I’ve got an intervention year 11 group I picked up at the start of this year. Targets are between 4-6 , all of them did badly in year 10 (between Us and 3s) Don’t or can’t revise productively independently and I don’t have time to re-cover all year 10 work. If I hold their hand and revise in class before a test they do ok . If they are asked to revise year 10 material alone ( as just happened for a chemistry mock - not my choice) they fail in some style.
Main question is I’m really stressing about the decisions I have to make about higher or foundation papers. Our dept is working on grade boundaries ( not sure where from-but apparently not plucked from thin air) that put a higher paper 4 at about 30% and a foundation paper 4 about 65%. We have been letting them loose on higher papers because the 4 seems more obtainable but I am worrying about them falling off the end and getting Us, but then a 4 in the foundation seems much harder to get. I just want to make the best choice for them and I don’t feel I have enough information to do that. Any thoughts??
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Cathpot · 22/02/2018 20:32
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