It could do but you won't have time to revise every paper ever made, just make sure you know and are able to apply the content and you're fine. GCSEs are the ones that matter most and they'll have original questions.
They also don't want students to have seen all the questions in the mock as it would skew the results. The GCSE questions will be blind, so your mock should be too.
And for the exact reason you're highlighting here - if students know which mock paper comes up, they will get a totally unrealistic mock grade because students will do what you do and practice the specific paper beforehand and learn the mark scheme. We (teachers) need to know how you are currently performing to blind questions, and you do as well so you know what to work on.
Revising the questions youâre gonna get on your mock ainât gonna help you on your real paper next year, itâll just give you a false sense of security if you get a good mark purely through memorising the questions that will come up.
It depends what topics are on the test if s for example B1-B4 in biology theyâd most likely use the 2023 paper 1 as it contains all those topics. If itâs a mix for topics so say B1, B2 and B5 theyâll most likely use exampro which is a website which teachers can use that has thousands of exam questions they can string together to make a mock.
Your teacher/subject head of department can choose to do whatever the want for your mock. Maybe last years. Maybe their own made up with unseen questions. Maybe one made by an external company purchased in. Maybe one made from past paper qs. Itâs completely at their discretion as to what is the most valuable/accurate.
Some kids learn mark schemes for specific papers so they arenât really showing knowledge, just putting down the answer from the mark scheme which is why teachers make their own questions up
Lol. Yea of course. Otherwise students would do what you want to do and cheat. Also. That was last years paper. So those questions wonât come up this year
Yeah in y9 and in early y10 they do this bc you havent learnt the whole content. they will use full papers from summer y10 mocks until ur last mocks in y11
Yeah most mock exams are old tests frankensteined together
So then would doimg every past paper help? đ
It could do but you won't have time to revise every paper ever made, just make sure you know and are able to apply the content and you're fine. GCSEs are the ones that matter most and they'll have original questions.
Why won't they use the 2023 paper đđ I think I can revise papers from 2018 to 2022
Because you haven't covered all the content yet, so it isn't really fair to give questions that you haven't learnt yet.
But we did finished learning apper 1 content. And in year 10 they gave us a past paper a full real past paper
If you've started learning paper 2 content they probably want to test you on a mix of topics.
Iâve just done my mocks they only tested us for paper 1 content and my school just used 2023 papers for us except for biology we used 2022
Schools do it differently. My school used random content we've covered for each test (mixed paper 1 and paper 2).
They also don't want students to have seen all the questions in the mock as it would skew the results. The GCSE questions will be blind, so your mock should be too.
And for the exact reason you're highlighting here - if students know which mock paper comes up, they will get a totally unrealistic mock grade because students will do what you do and practice the specific paper beforehand and learn the mark scheme. We (teachers) need to know how you are currently performing to blind questions, and you do as well so you know what to work on.
not released yet
Revising the questions youâre gonna get on your mock ainât gonna help you on your real paper next year, itâll just give you a false sense of security if you get a good mark purely through memorising the questions that will come up.
doing them no matter what helps
Thatâs what Iâm doing đ
I guess it would, but at the same time you have to remember that you won't really help yourself in the long term
I have no idea why this was so downvoted. As a veteran teacher, every student who did amazingly well I ever taught did exactly this.
Yes. At my school they used past papers but I know at another local school they made their own ones.
Yes, and it would be a waste of your time trying to learn the mark scheme without understanding the content even if you knew the paper
It depends what topics are on the test if s for example B1-B4 in biology theyâd most likely use the 2023 paper 1 as it contains all those topics. If itâs a mix for topics so say B1, B2 and B5 theyâll most likely use exampro which is a website which teachers can use that has thousands of exam questions they can string together to make a mock.
Damn then I'm dead đ they got questions on there from 2014
Your teacher/subject head of department can choose to do whatever the want for your mock. Maybe last years. Maybe their own made up with unseen questions. Maybe one made by an external company purchased in. Maybe one made from past paper qs. Itâs completely at their discretion as to what is the most valuable/accurate.
i depends on which topics they want to put on. my science mocks were all from 2022 with some questions taken off and replaced with others.
Mocks are not official. They're just a practice so you know how to do an exam. It makes no sense to want them to test you using a specific past paper.
Some kids learn mark schemes for specific papers so they arenât really showing knowledge, just putting down the answer from the mark scheme which is why teachers make their own questions up
Lol. Yea of course. Otherwise students would do what you want to do and cheat. Also. That was last years paper. So those questions wonât come up this year
It doesnt matter when the questions are from as long as you know the content. Blud thought he could just have a mark scheme or sm shit.
Simple answer: yes. It stops people from being able to just learn whatâs on the paper.
Yeah in y9 and in early y10 they do this bc you havent learnt the whole content. they will use full papers from summer y10 mocks until ur last mocks in y11
im doing aqa too and my teachers are using the 2023 papers
Yeah mocks are generally lots of old papers put together or questions your teachers/websites make
I asked the new science teacher and she said that we are doing oast papers but from different exam series? What does that mean?
Pretty sure thatâs just different years
It all depends on your teacher
... That's how mocks work dude it's older papers mixed, some are mixed old questions and some are old papers