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Our registered address is AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX.  \nAQA Education (AQA) is a registered charity (number 1073334) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (number 3644723) . Our registered address is AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX.  \n2 of 48  \n\n| Contents | Page |\n| --- | --- |\n| Presentation slides | 4 |\n| GCSE SAMs 2 Paper 1 performance data | 17 |\n| Intervention | 19 |\n| Extended response questions and mark schemes | 23 |\n| Levels of response mark schemes activity | 27 |\n| Example student responses | 28 |\n| Examiner commentaries and answers to levels of response mark scheme activity | 41 |\n\nAQA Education (AQA) is a registered charity (number 1073334) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (number 3644723) . Our registered address is AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX.  \n3 of 48  \n| This meeting will be recorded |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Exam boards have an Ofqual requirement to record event audio.\u003Cbr>Recordings are kept for one year and not shared as an accompaniment to session resources.\u003Cbr>The recording will begin now. |  |  |\n| 2 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\nFeedback from mock exams  \n4  \nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.  \n| Second set of specimen assessment materials |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| • Teacher feedback has identified some errors\u003Cbr>• Where possible amendments have been made and new versions of papers and mark schemes have been posted on SKM\u003Cbr>• We wont be able to discuss individual issues with questions in this meeting. Please refer any queries to the science team via teacher services\u003Cbr>[gcsescience@aqa.org.uk](gcsescience@aqa.org.uk) |  |  |\n| 5 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Accessing MERiT |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| |  |  |\n| 6 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n| Accessing MERiT\u003Cbr>|  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 7 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Accessing MERiT\u003Cbr>|  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 8 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Accessing MERiT\u003Cbr>|  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 9 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n| Accessing MERiT\u003Cbr>|  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 10 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Interpreting MERiT data |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| • Sample size is small compared with GCSE entry for example in 2017\u003Cbr>• Additional science in excess of 300,000\u003Cbr>• Separate science in excess of 140,000\u003Cbr>• Mark scheme has not been standardised\u003Cbr>• Teachers have not been standardised so marking maybe inconsistent\u003Cbr>• Final award is made on all papers combined\u003Cbr>• Cannot know whether the sample is representative of the whole cohort |  |  |\n| 11 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| What does the analysis show? |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| • Rank order against the sample population.\u003Cbr>• No indication of grades. For example the average mean mark on the Higher Tier doesn’t correspond to a Grade 6.\u003Cbr>• The type of questions students found challenging. |  |  |\n| 12 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. 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