Why so many Mocks?

[Revisiontime]

Currently in year 10. Mocks in June, October, January and March?

Is this common?

My kids school do end of term tests every half term, which are different. 'Mocks' are in exam years (11 and 13, apart from the summer exam which has now turned into a mock) but they will still have their end of half term tests.

It’s for practising as well. Learning the skills for exams and how to cope with exam conditions is crucial.

I assume it's not a whole set of exams then, if they are coming home after every exam (or they would go on for weeks as per actual GCSEs)?

For comparison, my DC's mocks were timetabled as 8 days with 3 exams a day - with students sitting around 20 exams in total, as they covered a full set of representative material.

yes, I wonder why that is? The school seem to get great results so it obviously is effective.

It's because the parents are heavily invested in education unlike schools which need to create all the 'motivation' (pressure) from the kids themselves. The schools pushing mocks will not really expect much/ any issue revision outside school so the mocks are the revision.