GCSE mathematics - small things make a big difference

Want to help your students to avoid common mistakes and poor exam technique?

Teachit maths is here to help! We have partnered with AQA to bring you GCSE mathematics - small things make a big difference, a pdf presentation to help you guide your students through the small changes they can make to their exam paper practice which will make a big difference to their marks.

Packed full of helpful suggestions, points are illustrated with real student responses from AQA GCSE maths papers, so students and staff alike can clearly see the problems and tailor their exam preparation to minimise errors and unnecessarily lost marks.

The ten areas addressed are:

Learning keywords and terminology

Using keywords and terminology correctly

Drawing diagrams

Drawing graphs

Presentation and setting out of working

Non-calculator arithmetic

Using a calculator effectively

Learning and recalling formulae correctly

Poor use or no use of brackets

Writing an equation or expression from words.