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The Trial That Failed Is the Evidence

Why can a page of things that went wrong score higher than a page of neat finished squares? AO2 and AO3 carry half the marks between them and reward the two things students hide: the rejected trial, and the note written during the job rather than after it. Three trials with one variable changed and a verdict under each, drawn; the four kinds of record that count; the DfE's aim that students take risks and learn from experience; safe use of materials, which the DfE names twice; and its position that digital, non-digital or a mixture are all equally acceptable. Eight terms to define, a worked trial annotation, and the misconceptions that cost marks. Photographed: a hand-loom mid-warp.

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