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All rights reserved.  \nAgenda  \n• Introduction  \n• Rationale behind improvements  \n• Changes in Summer 2022  \n• Changes for Summer 2023  \n• Examples of how questions have changed  \n• Resources and teaching and learning  \nIntroduction: Ian Andrews  \n• Maths and Statistics graduate.  \n• Maths teacher since 2007.  \n• Full time Head of department since 2015 in an 11–18 comprehensive in West Sussex.  \n• AQA Chair of examiners for GCSE Maths, GCSE Statistics and Level 2 Further maths since 2019 (part-time role) .  \nRationale for improvements  \n5  \nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.  \nChanges aim to improve accessibility for students  \n• The ‘new’ GCSE specification is 7 years old! First taught in 2015 and first examined in 2017.  \n• The maths team at AQA wanted to improve the papers in 2 key areas:  \no Improve the performance of students at the start of the paper.  \no Improve the ramping of difficulty throughout the paper.  \n• The aim is to give students a fair start and the make the papers get gradually harder so as not to dishearten students.  \nChanges made in Summer 2022  \n7  \nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.  \nIn comments  \nA few changes were made to the Summer 2022 papers. Did you notice anything?  \nSummer and November 2022 changes  \n• Some subtle changes have already been made in the Summer and November resit papers for 2022.  \n• Earlier questions in the Foundation tier papers were re-written to ensure they were more accessible, especially for lower attaining candidates.  \n• For example, the wording may have been improved or the numbers made easier.  \n• During marking, the mark schemes were changed so there were more follow on marks or students weren’t punished as much for having more than one attempt.  \n• This partly explains why grade boundaries increased in summer 2022.  \nFoundation paper improvements  \n\n| Available on the AQA website.\u003Cbr>Outlines some of the changes made in the 2022 papers.\u003Cbr>This approach will continue and improve into the 2023 papers and beyond. | |\n| --- | --- |","cbCaibs7lm0S3vPj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibs7lm0S3vPj","pdf",1214779,46,"English","# Introduction\n## Agenda\n# Rationale behind improvements\n## Accessibility and fair start\n# Changes in Summer 2022\n## Foundation tier improvements\n## Mark scheme adjustments\n# Changes for Summer 2023\n## Ongoing approach and continuation\n# Examples of how questions have changed\n## How question wording and numbers may change","[{\"question\":\"Why were changes made to GCSE Maths exams starting in 2022?\",\"answer\":\"The changes aim to improve accessibility and give students a fair start, by improving early performance and making the difficulty increase more gradually through the paper.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of changes were made to the Summer 2022 papers?\",\"answer\":\"Subtle improvements were made to Summer and November 2022 resit papers, including rewriting earlier Foundation-tier questions for better accessibility and enhancing wording and number choices.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the Summer 2022 mark scheme changes affect students?\",\"answer\":\"Mark schemes were updated to provide more follow-on marks and to reduce how strongly students were penalized for having more than one attempt.\"}]","GCSE Maths Virtual Communities - Changes to exams in 2022 and 2023 - Presentation | PDF",116]