Analysis of Exams, Syllabi and other things
Analysis of a variety of syllabi through things like past exam paper frequency of topic or question type and other kinds of things, like an investigation into what universities require from the UCAS site with regards to Triple or Double award science.
The most indepth report I have made so far is the CIE iGCSE Chemistry 0620 syllabus. But material is available for the following syllabi:
If it's a "Report" it means I've tried to explain what I think the numbers mean, if its "Analysis" it'll be a spreadsheet with several pages I've made (& including some of the raw data), and a whole lot of processing: if you are very interested in this kind of thing, useful. Also, for Double and Single (0653) sciences, I have analysis on just the chemistry part to it and all of the sciences, check titles for more info.
Analysis of a variety of syllabi through things like past exam paper frequency of topic or question type and other kinds of things, like an investigation into what universities require from the UCAS site with regards to Triple or Double award science.
The most indepth report I have made so far is the CIE iGCSE Chemistry 0620 syllabus. But material is available for the following syllabi:
- CIE iGCSE Chemistry (0620)
- CIE iGCSE Physics (0625)
- CIE iGCSE Coordinated science or Double Award (0654)
- CIE iGCSE Combined Science (0653)
- IB Diploma Higher Level Chemistry
- IB Diploma Standard Level Chemistry
If it's a "Report" it means I've tried to explain what I think the numbers mean, if its "Analysis" it'll be a spreadsheet with several pages I've made (& including some of the raw data), and a whole lot of processing: if you are very interested in this kind of thing, useful. Also, for Double and Single (0653) sciences, I have analysis on just the chemistry part to it and all of the sciences, check titles for more info.
| 0620 Chemistry Report Papers 1, 3 and 6 2015 and before.docx |
| 06(25,20,10) & 0654 Report Entry Req. UCAS for Top Unis Comparing Triple & Double iGCSE Science.docx |
| 0620 Analysis P1 3 & 6 15w to 01s TOPIC MARK TOTALS MASTER.xlsx |
| 0620 & 0625 Chemsitry & Physics Analysis Changes in Greade Thresholds 2006 to 2016.xls |
| 0654 Chemistry Analysis P1, P3 & P6 Marks per Topic 15w to 01s.xlsx |
| 0654 All Sciences ANALYSIS P3 TOPIC MARK TOTALS s08 to s15.xlsx |
| 0653 Chemistry Analysis Papers 3 & 6 15w to 10s TOPIC MARK TOTALS.xlsx |
| IB Diploma Chemistry Higher & Standard Level Analysis TOPIC MARK TOTALS s99 to w14.xlsx |
Interested in finding out if a topic is important to a syllabus?
If you have access to the past exam papers, the mark schemes and other things like examiners reports, a decent desktop computer (made after 2012) and a paid for version of Adobe Acrobat (the pdf viewer), you can combine everything into a single pdf. This will take a while. The resulting document will be hundreds or even thousands of pages long (e.g. for IB Chem HL it was 4,000). But you can search it for whatever term you are interested in. For instance, when there were no IB questions for the new parts to the IB Physics 2016 syllabus, I look at the new CIE A-level syllabus this way and found some questions about the new material (see here). This could be particularly useful if you are teaching a new syllabus to find out how the most difficult parts of your subject are examined.
If you have access to the past exam papers, the mark schemes and other things like examiners reports, a decent desktop computer (made after 2012) and a paid for version of Adobe Acrobat (the pdf viewer), you can combine everything into a single pdf. This will take a while. The resulting document will be hundreds or even thousands of pages long (e.g. for IB Chem HL it was 4,000). But you can search it for whatever term you are interested in. For instance, when there were no IB questions for the new parts to the IB Physics 2016 syllabus, I look at the new CIE A-level syllabus this way and found some questions about the new material (see here). This could be particularly useful if you are teaching a new syllabus to find out how the most difficult parts of your subject are examined.
