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Total Maths Newsletter

Hello Colleague,

We hope you and your students had a great end to the 2022-2023 academic year. We wish you an enjoyable break over the rest of the summer with those close to you. :)

Summer 2023 results will be issued later this month. For more information, please see the first article 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 ever, please get in touch if you have any queries or if we can give you any further support. Our role is to support you as you deliver our qualifications.

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

maths@ocr.org.uk
@OCR_Maths
01223 553998
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Summer 2023 results days
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Our ‘Summer 23 support’ webpage is full of useful information to help you get ready for results days this year. It includes post-results services guidance, exams officer support, information about our free Active Results & Access to scripts services, links to support for your students and more.

We’ve also published several blogs for you and your students.

On results days, grade boundaries will be published here and the provisional exam statistics here.

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 blog ‘10 things to know about GCSE, AS and A level grades’. 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.

Summer 2023 support
Free access to scripts

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.
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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.

Free access to scripts
Summer 2023 materials are available from Teach Cambridge
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From results days, you’ll be able to download the summer 2023 mark schemes and examiners’ reports (and Analysis Grids for GCSE (9-1) Maths) from Teach Cambridge.

The question papers from the summer 2023 series are already available now from Teach Cambridge.

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.

Teach Cambridge
Professional Development for 2023-2024

Our professional development courses for 2023-2024 are now available to browse and book on to.

Courses include summer 2023 exam reviews, getting the most from your calculator/technology, Subject Advisor Q&A webinars and many more.

More courses will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Maths Professional Development
Core Maths B pre-release
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We’ve updated our Core Maths B ‘Notes on the Pre-release Data Set’ resource to cover the summer 2024 series. It’s available to download now from Teach Cambridge in the ‘Pre-release materials’ area.

If you’ll be entering students for the qualification in the summer 2025 series, next month (1 September) we’ll be publishing the pre-release data set for use in the series. It will be available from the ‘Pre-release materials’ sections of both the public qualification webpage and Teach Cambridge. Both Excel and pdf formats will be available.

Core Maths B on Teach Cambridge
Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths - an enrichment of the GCSE curriculum blog

Steven has updated his ‘Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths (6993) - an enrichment of the GCSE curriculum’ blog, to now contain additional support links.

The blog looks at the benefits of studying Additional Maths alongside GCSE (9-1) Maths and how it can support your students’ confidence in maths, so is definitely worth a read.
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If you didn’t see it last month, our ‘Starting September with a new A Level Maths B (MEI) class’ blog written by MEI’s Keith Proffitt is full of great ideas to get your A Level Maths class off to a great start in September.

For more great support and ideas, check out our full range of maths blogs.

Maths blogs

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