Notes for setting Exams

Here are some documents for setting exam papers which should be of use for teachers and some practice at answering questions from the command words.

Whilst the document below was written for covid times there are some great nuggets if you can read through it all.

My thanks to Mr S Farmer and Mr A Bailey for these.

Haven’t got the time to prepare fully tagged high quality prelims? Try P&N

https://prelims.co.uk

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December 2024

Moderating Resources

Hot off the press, I’ve just worked out the cutoff scores for each grade at each level. Here it is.

Cut off scores

A summary of the cut off scores for 5 years at AH, H and N5 physics
AH
yeartotal
scaled
AA%BB%CC%DD%
20191309069775964495744
20181308767735660465341
20171308465705457445038
20161308465725561475542
2015 RAH1258669735861495544
2015 Trad1258568725860545443
Higher
yeartotal
scaled
AA%BB%CC%DD%
201915010067845669465335
20181207966675655454941
20171208268695857485143
20161208470715959495344
20151207764655454454840
N5
yeartotal
scaled
AA%BB%CC%DD%
20191258669725858464435
20181258669725858464435
20171006868565645453939
20161006969585848484343
20151006868585848484343
20141006868575747544242

As part of the moderation process we’ve got some fake student scripts.

I have not done a definitive marking instructions but I believe the person who sat this paper, a Drew Escutcheon, has made some sneaky errors to look for.

A Vital Piece of Info for all Markers

Answer Grid

Thanks to Mr C Rossi so making a marking grid for you to add your answers. When we’ve got a finalised MI I’ll publish a commentary with a password so you can’t cheat!

AH PHYSICS

Higher PHYSICS

NATIONAL 5 PHYSICS

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