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Hello Colleague,

We’ve reached the end of the summer 2023 exam series and are very nearly at the end of the academic year. Well done and thank you from us for all the extremely hard work you’ve put in supporting students throughout this year. We wish you a fun and relaxing summer break ahead. :)

Examiners are now hard at work marking your students’ scripts before we move to the awarding process to determine grades. If you’d like to learn more about this or have any questions, please see below.

Results days for AS & A Level, Core Maths and FSMQ qualifications are

  • Wednesday 16 August for centres
  • Thursday 17 August for candidates.

Results days for Entry Level Certificate and GCSE qualifications are

  • Wednesday 23 August for centres
  • Thursday 24 August for candidates.

As always, if you have any queries or if we can give you any further support, please get in touch. Our role is to support you as you deliver our qualifications.

Neil, Steven, Ruth and Caroline – your OCR Maths Subject Advisors 

maths@ocr.org.uk
@OCR_Maths
01223 553998
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2023 exams
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In advance of this summer’s results days, remember it has been announced that grading in 2023 will broadly be in line with before the pandemic. Ofqual has said that they expect ‘national results this year to be similar to those in pre-pandemic years’. For more information, please see Ofqual’s article ‘Grading exams and assessments in summer 2023 and autumn 2022’ published last year. If you have any questions, please do get in touch.

If you, your students or their parents would like to learn more about the examining process, please see our ‘Explaining examining’ support page.

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Share your thoughts on our 2023 exams

Your feedback is invaluable to us and we’d really love to hear your thoughts on our 2023 exams.

It’ll only take a few minutes and your input helps us understand how students found the exams, what worked well and what didn't. We'll be using this information to improve exams in the future.
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Post-exam surveys
Free access to scripts
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From candidates’ results day, your exams officer will be able to download their completed summer 2023 scripts free of charge for OCR general qualifications. These scripts can then help you decide whether to request a review of marking, as well as supporting you and your department’s teaching and learning.

For more information and instructions for your exams officer on accessing scripts, please see our ‘Access to Scripts’ webpage.

As standard for access to scripts requests, please be aware that

  • written consent from candidates must be obtained after they have received their results before your exams officer can download their script,
  • your exams officer will only have access to scripts taken at your own centre.

Access to Scripts
Summer 2023 materials are available from Teach Cambridge

Question papers from the summer 2023 series are all now published on Teach Cambridge.

Mark schemes and examiners' reports (and Analysis Grids for GCSE (9-1) Maths) will be published on results day for that qualification, again on Teach Cambridge.
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If you’ve not set up an account yet, visit our Teach Cambridge page to find out how to do so.

Summer 2023 materials are not being published on OCR Interchange.

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Summer network meetings
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Most of our summer 2023 free Teacher Network meetings have now taken place. If you attended one (or more), we hope it was useful.

Our final summer Teacher Network, for A Level Further Maths, takes place next week on Monday 10 July at 16:00.

At the network, we'll:

  • host a discussion of the summer series of both specifications,
  • look at promoting the qualification and options with your students,
  • review professional development and resource provision across both specifications,
  • give you a chance for you to network and ask questions.

Whether you’re an experienced teacher or just starting out, get yourself a place and we look forward to speaking to you there.

Teacher Networks
Guest blog - Starting September with a new A Level Maths B (MEI) class

Last month we published a new blog from MEI Curriculum Developer Keith Proffitt, ‘Starting September with a new A Level Maths B (MEI) class’.

In it he shares his thoughts and ideas for getting the year off to a great start with your new cohort of A Level Maths students, including suggestions for resources and upcoming professional development.
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If you’re looking for more summer reading, please do explore our full range of maths blogs as well. :)

Maths blogs

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