Teesside Maths Tutor

Today is GCSE results day and this year will be harder for some as the exam boards move back to pre-Covid grading. Please do not compare your grades to anyone, especially anyone who received results in 2020 or 2021 when teacher assessments and lowered grade boundaries were used.

The most important question is not "what did you get?" but "Did you try your best?". If the answer to that is yes then nothing else matters.

With results day fast approaching, if you don't achieve the results you want, please remember...
Popcorn is prepared in the same pot, with the same heat, in the same oil yet the kernels do not pop at the same time so don't compare yourself to others, your time to pop is coming! 🍿❤

Hello 👋 Hope you are all keeping well! Due to unexpected changes, we couldn't access the page but we're back now!
Over the last couple of months we have been busy in our roles as examiners (39k+ GCSE and 10k SATs questions marked ). Overall the standard of GCSE responses have been amazing however far too many marks were lost through basic errors I.e. 8+6= saw a whole host of responses.
Tutoring is not always an option for people so I will try and add hints/tips as we go along. Today's tip is practice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and remember to estimate/check your answer! If you are doing 6+8 then a quick estimation would be more than 10 (5+5) but less than 20 (10+10) so an answer of 9 is clearly wrong.
Those accuracy marks soon add up so it's worth taking the time to practice your skills.

I have been asked to post this again to help parents understand the GCSE levels and for students to stop seeing a 4 as failure.

No matter what your results, well done for surviving the stress from an excessive amount of exams and too many hours in 'extra' lessons