Yes I think they are Edexcel A-Level questions but I've taught AQA for the past two years and they've always worked alright for my lot. Good luck for this week 😊👍

Yeah that sounds like a good plan. Westie's Workshop website is also a great site for past paper questions sorted by topic.

Yes I definitely would, I tend to use questions from other exam boards first then leave the ones from the board we use for later on in the course.

I agree with the general consensus of same amount of time at home as in class for lesson to lesson homework. Then on top of this around 2-3 hours per week of revision past paper questions particularly in late Y12 and and throughout Y13.

I personally would hate to see the removal of the non-calc paper because yes I know everyone carries a calculator around with them in their pockets everyday these days but being able to do quick efficient manual calcs particularly mentally has real-world value and makes day to day life easier.

Yes thank you for everything, your papers are always of the very highest quality 😊👍

I've printed our SoW off and highlighted which topics came up on P1, which I emailed out to my students earlier if you want a copy of that?

Just used this earlier with one of my tutees and it is a really fantastic selection of questions, so thank you for making it and sharing it 😊

I take no credit for the name, my Y13's chose it in lesson earlier!! 😅

Yes definitely graphs, graphs, graphs!!

I'm starting a new role in September as Head of Year and they do Edexcel at A-Level. Having tutored a student for Edexcel Alevel before the differences between them and AQA seem limited but the core content of Edexcel Further seems considerably lighter than for AQA Further.

Currently I do:
GCSE: AQA
L2 Further: AQA
A-Level: AQA

Next Year it'll be:
GCSE: OCR
L2 Further: AQA
A-Level: Edexcel
A-Level Further: Edexcel

I've done the entire paper now so I'm happy to discuss 😊

Yeah I did it using perpendicular gradients and got the target answer but I know my lot will have found it very tricky. A reasonably fair paper overall I thought though.

We tend to reuse our KS3 and 4 ones (though this year we have we written some of the KS3 and Y9 ones) but I tend to find the KS5 ones need an almost complete rewrite every year depending on which teachers are on what topics and therefore what the topic order is for that year.

I think I'd miss the "splitting the linear term" method for factorising non-monic quadratics most, but prime factorisation by the "prime factor tree" method would be a close second.

I'd agree with everyone so far, but I'd also say try to resist the temptation to have your examples pre-written. Much better for the students to see you get stuck occasionally and work through the problem on the spot. Pupils need to see the thought process we as experts go through when it gets tough