Urgh. Americans will verb any noun, and we'll pick it up...
My current least favourite is the verb to medal, as in an Olympic hopeful hoping to medal at the next games...

...and so have also said no to externals, not least because we don't have space/invigilators.

But I also think discretionary entries for those who have missed the cut (by a lot in some cases) devalues the achievement of those who've made it on merit.

Good luck!

I reckon so. Orders of magnitude-wise, I reckon you've got until around 3 hours 10 minutes. Go beyond that, and you're in 'about 10 hours' territory...

Does anyone not?

My tax code reduces my tax-free allowance *and also* the 20%/40% threshold. So its not income up to £50270 that's taxed at 20%, but my first £37700 of taxable income.

Some nice extension work (off-spec) here:

www.paddymacmahon.com/year-11-lock...

Can be worked through fairly independently.

30%of 50 is 50%of 30, which is 15.

It's definitely expected by OCR that students should solve cubics using their calculators...

This was my approach - a compound angle formula with tan. Came out quickly, but I was slightly unsatisfied... seems like advanced techniques (like calculus or advanced trig) shouldn't be needed...

Yeah, teeming down here in Kampala too. But it was 30° and sunny earlier, and probably will be again later...!

No rush - I'll be on a school trip until the 29th.

We teach it 6x45 minutes per fortnight, over two years. I think that's ample time...