Short, practical writing on learning, examinations, teaching and running a school.
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Past papers are not a pile of questions to grind through. Read them as the examiner wrote them and the pattern shows itself.
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Moving a paper onto a screen does not make it fair by itself. Three things have to be true before the first candidate sits down.
A shared paper lets schools compare themselves honestly. It only works if no one knows whose script they are marking.
You do not need to check every day. Three moments in a term tell you almost everything.
A timetable with no clashes can still be a bad one. What makes the difference is how the lessons are spread.
The same topic can be asked in a way that rewards memory or in a way that rewards thinking. Here is how to tell which you wrote.
Most missed scholarships are not lost on merit. They are lost to a date nobody wrote down.
