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Total Maths Newsletter

Hi Colleague,

We hope both you and your students had a great end to the school year last month. We wish you an enjoyable and relaxing summer break now with those close to you.

Summer 2022 results days are in a few weeks and you can find plenty to support you in the first article below.

  • Wednesday 17 August (for centres) / Thursday 18 August (for students) - AS and A Level Maths & Further Maths, Core Maths and FSMQ Additional Maths
  • Wednesday 24 August (for centres) / Thursday 25 August (for students) - GCSE (9-1) Maths and Entry Level

If you’re expecting to enter students in the November 2022 GCSE (9-1) Maths series, advance information for the series is now available. Advance information from summer 2022 exams remain online. Please double check the front cover of any advance information document before using it, to ensure you have the correct one for the series you need.

As always, please get in contact with us if you have any questions or need 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 2022 results day support
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Our ‘Supporting you with summer 2022’ pages contain plenty of helpful information for you ahead of the results days this month.

We’ve also published a blog about results days for exams officers, parts of which will also help you prepare and answer some of your questions.

Ofqual has published a podcast discussing marking and grading for summer 2022, along with a blog on ‘10 things to know about GCSE, AS and A level grades’.

Our short videos ‘Explaining examining - from exam to results day’ and ‘Students' questions about grade boundaries’ are available to watch, please do share them with your students.

If you or your students need further support with the series, please do get in touch (contact details are in the intro box above).

Supporting you 
Summer 2022 question papers

Question papers from the summer 2022 series are all now published on OCR Interchange. Log in, select your qualification in the menus, then download the 'QPs (Jun22)' folder.

If you don't have a log in, speak to your exams officer. They will be able to either create a new account for you or to download the files on your behalf.
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Please be aware that many centres will be using these papers for mocks in the coming year, so please keep them secure by not posting them anywhere publicly.

Mark schemes and examiners’ reports will be published on results day for the qualification.

Summer 2022 question papers
FREE on-demand access to scripts pilot for summer 2022
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This summer we’ll be piloting a new free access to scripts service for several maths qualifications, in addition to our existing service. 

This is the first step in providing free on-demand access to scripts for all qualifications.

From results day, your exams officer will be able to download your students’ completed summer 2022 question papers free of charge for GCSE (9-1) Maths, AS & A Level Maths and AS & A Level Further Maths. These scripts can then help you decide whether to request a review of marking, as well as supporting teaching and learning.

Step-by-step instructions for your exams officer are being provided in our results day communications to them. Access for exams officers will be through our single sign-on service, My Cambridge.

As is 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.

My Cambridge
AS & A Level Maths and Further Maths

For any of your students about to begin A Level Maths, Steven has updated his ‘Transition from GCSE to A Level Mathematics’ blog with new resources and ideas for you and them.

If you deliver AS or A Level Further Maths, we’ve recently revised our specifications with a couple of minor updates. Each are available from the qualification webpages.
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In the Further Maths A documents we’ve corrected a couple of typos. In the Further Maths B documents we’ve removed the references to the now withdrawn AS Further Maths B options Mechanics b (Y415) and Statistics b (Y416).

Read Steven's blog
AMSP New to teaching A Level Mathematics summer school
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If you’re preparing to or interested in delivering A Level Maths, then AMSP’s ‘New to teaching A level Mathematics’ summer school is returning to face-to-face sessions later this month.

Run in conjunction with the National STEM Learning Centre, the course is designed for teachers who have studied some maths beyond A Level standard, but have little or no experience of teaching A Level Maths.

The course runs over 4 days (Mon 22 - Thu 25 August) in York. Teachers employed in a state-maintained school or college in England will have the full course fee reimbursed on completion.

Find out more
Teach Cambridge – A new way to access support & resources

Created in collaboration with teachers, Teach Cambridge is our new personalised and secure website, providing you with a single point of access to all the support and resources for our GCSE and AS & A Level qualifications. This replaces the need for you to use Interchange and our public website to access qualification materials.
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Teach Cambridge saves you time and effort by finding resources, training and support in a single search and allows you to personalise and save all the content you need relevant to you, meaning it’s always only one click away. You'll be able to access:

  • key dates in one place
  • key documents, such as specifications
  • teaching and planning resources, such as schemes of work, summary brochures, delivery guides and teaching activities
  • assessment materials, such as past papers, mark schemes, sample assessment materials and examiners' reports
  • training and Professional Development events
  • subject updates and more.

Watch this short video, which introduces you to the website and shows you some key features.

Please contact your exams officer to help get you set up. They will have received instructions explaining what they need to do. If not, they can contact our Customer Support Centre who will be happy to help them log you in to Teach Cambridge for the first time. 

Teach Cambridge

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