GCSE · Mathematics

GCSE Mathematics: how each board marks it

AQA · OCR · Pearson Edexcel. A separate book for each

The assessment objectives below are worded almost identically whichever board you teach. What differs is the weight each one carries, and that is what decides where a department spends its time. Each book quotes its own board’s specification word for word, and the first 8 pages of each are open to read here. Most staffrooms just say “GCSE maths”, not the full qualification name.

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Checking your board before you plan? The assessment objectives for GCSE maths are set nationally. The three papers that test them are not the same shape at all.

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The assessment objectives

AO1 Use and apply standard techniques
AO2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically
AO3 Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

Read off the GCSE Mathematics specification. The weightings, the mark scheme levels and what separates a middle answer from a top one are set out board by board inside each book.

3 books, one per board

GCSE · 38–39 pages each · the first 8 pages open

Mathematics · GCSE · AQA £4.99

AQA GCSE Mathematics Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

AQA only, for AQA GCSE Mathematics (8300). A working manual for a GCSE mathematics department. It moves in one direction: specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination. That is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Use and apply standard techniques
AO2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically
AO3 Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

AQA GCSE Mathematics (8300) · 38 pages, 30 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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Mathematics · GCSE · OCR £4.99

OCR GCSE Mathematics Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

OCR only, for OCR GCSE (9–1) Mathematics (J560). A working manual for a GCSE mathematics department. It moves in one direction: specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination. That is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Use and apply standard techniques
AO2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically
AO3 Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

OCR GCSE (9–1) Mathematics (J560) · 39 pages, 31 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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Mathematics · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

Pearson Edexcel GCSE Mathematics Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics (1MA1). A working manual for a GCSE mathematics department. It moves in one direction: specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination. That is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Use and apply standard techniques
AO2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically
AO3 Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics (1MA1) · 38 pages, 30 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

Preview · first 8 pages

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One purchase covers the school that buys it · PDF straight after payment · Refunds