March 2022
GCSE Topic Menu Now Live
Since our last update we have further improved the functionality of methodmaths and continue to address the needs of schools in preparation for the Summer 2022 exams. With 66 tests, we have the most complete library of Pearson 9-1 GCSE practice papers at your disposal all of which come with interactive support to help pupils develop stronger problem solving and procedural techniques.
Our new topic menu has been released to all member schools. You can access it by switching the filter from test to topic mode on the dashboard. Here you will find all Pearson 9-1 exam questions grouped into approx. 150 topic tests. Questions have been placed into a rough order of difficulty and colour coding will reflect how early or late questions have appeared in a real test. These are great if you want your students to develop a broader understanding of the full range of questions that could be asked within a topic. Some questions contain several skills so these may appear more than once in different topic sets.
Each topic test will only be visible to students once it has been unlocked by a teacher or admin user. This can be done quickly using the bulk tool facility. Unlock and feedback options within topic mode can be controlled independently of test mode and students can now move smoothly between questions of the same type. If a question is completed in topic mode it will automatically be marked within the original test and visa-versa. We hope this will be great for supporting homework particularly in year 10 and earlier.
Advanced Information Revision Support 2022
For your convenience, we have identified how our new topic tests align with Pearson’s Advanced Information guidance which outlines the content for each test paper this summer. At the top of the bulk setting menu, you can select either paper 1, 2 or 3 and it will automatically tick the relevant topics for you. This means that you can unlock content relevant to each test paper so that year 11 students can prioritise their efforts between each exam. Please note the usual caveats hold and we cannot guarantee that anything omitted will not be tested.
Methodmaths Booster Days
Our revision booster days across the country are continuing to be well received by both students and teachers. We are currently supporting over 3000 students mostly through the school led tuition programme and you can read more about it here. If you would like to find out more about how our brilliant teams of teachers can support your pupils this year and next, please do get in contact with us on tuition@methodmaths.com As our support in schools grows, we are also on the lookout for talented Maths teachers who might be interested in very well paid holiday work.
Online Mock exams
We have now established a very accurate solution to online GCSE maths mock exams following successful trials with schools in Bermuda. Sophisticated auto-marking combined with the expertise of human markers has enabled us to create an assessment that is identical to a real GCSE paper in content but still allows for human intervention when more complex interpretation is needed. You can read more about it here. We are also delighted to announce that we have teamed up with OCR to deliver a mock service using this exact model.