As part of the school’s year 11 “gearing up” strategies for summer exams, pupils are all taken off of timetable in the last week of the autumn term in order to sit mock exams – probably not an uncommon activity in many secondary schools. They sit at least one exam paper for each subject they study. My year 11s sat a full Sociology Paper 2 exam.
Therefore some of my Christmas break was taken with mock marking, although I did not mark them in their entirety – I have found it very useful to give pupils the marking criteria and a green pen for them to mark their own papers.
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