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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Yes totally agree - resources from both have been so helpful and really well received by my students. Huge thank you @drbennison.bsky.social and @ecrmaths.bsky.social - do you have a 'buy me a coffee link'?

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

No big deal - they really should have already revised all of these topics anyway. Bit daft of me not to notice earlier 🤦‍♀️

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ah yes - all good now. I thought the rows that were missing were all on another page like this type of thing which I have just made from your list. Any way all sorted now - thank you!

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Only seems to have the topics from exponentials onwards - I think there is a column missing perhaps?

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

i can only see one column starting with exponentials and logs

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Opens ok for me - thanks again

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

We know you are busy and just appreciate you sharing them - no need to apologise. I check your page each morning!

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thank you once again - much appreciated

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thank you as always. For what it’s worth I think a second one for AQA would be more useful than one for Edexcel - there seems to be several of those available already

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thank you John - really useful

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thank you so much Emily this is so helpful

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hi Emily - would you be willing to share your list once you’ve done it? It was super useful last year.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Spooky - I was just wondering this exact question. Thank you in advance :)

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Surely the simple solution was to have a replacement paper covering the same topics as the original (obviously the actual questions can be completely different) - I hope lessons will be learnt from this.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Both groups seem to have been disadvantaged - 99.8% weren't tested on the whole breadth of the syllabus, 0.02% will never know if their grade boundaries are comparable to the majority.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I think I read somewhere that about 70000 students sit Edexcel A level Maths - if this is right then 0.2% is only 140 students. Is 140 students a larger enough cohort size to set reliable grade boundaries???

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Assuming they don’t want to admit there was a leak AGAIN!

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

And how can grade boundaries be set effectively for such a small cohort?

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thank you @drbennison.bsky.social , @ecrmaths.bsky.social, @jrub.bsky.social for all the revision lists, warm up grids and practice papers you have provided over the last few weeks. They are greatly appreciated by me and especially by my students.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Everybody sitting the same paper is the key point here. I hope he can put this to one side for a few days and smash paper 3.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

No problem - I've just done Paper 3. I think there may be a mistake on Qu 10 as I can't get an answer of that form - but I did do it very quickly and with a tired brain so might be my error. I think Qu 11 is a bit scary!

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Even if his paper was 'nicer/better/easier' he has still suffered discrimination and a small cohort could lead to unfair grade boundaries. I hope you get some answers.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

No need to apologise- you've every right to be concerned and to demand answers. I think the modified paper your son completed was actually more like what he'd have been expecting and together with paper 1 covered a greater breadth of the pure content (and was probably originally meant for everyone).

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Thank you once again - my students have found these really useful

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Thank you for doing so - it is important we find out what has happened. As a tutor rather than a teacher I don't have the same access to emails as you so it has been really useful to see that my original gut feeling about 'something fishy' going on was true.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Surely any sensible exam board would set a contingency/replacement paper to cover the same topics but just with different questions - paper 1 and 2 have not tested the specification thoroughly this year and even if some pure is tested in paper 3 this still seems ridiculous.

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Tom Bowler @ridermeister.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Please, if you do Edexcel A-Level Maths push them to explain what on earth happened last week. Why were there two different paper 2s sat? The modified (large font etc) Paper was much better suited to the series, why did so few students get to sit that paper? #MathsToday #AlevelMaths #UKMathsChat

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

That seems logical. I understand they may have had to change to the reserve paper if there was a leak but why not just admit that? And why not change the modified papers too? I’m wondering if we’ll get a bit more clarity after all 3 papers are complete?

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I’m with you on this - do they think we are stupid. Or perhaps they are stupid? You can’t possibly set reliable grade boundaries on just those doing modified papers

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

From all the comments I’ve seen it was a replacement paper with modified papers still the original - hopefully Edexcel might confirm this soon to stop all the speculation which only worries students.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Thanks again Tom - these are so helpful. I think there may be a couple of mistakes on Paper 2B - I've commented on the blog site

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I was taught 'All Stations To Crewe' too but I did live nearby! I think its a better way to remember than CAST as at least you are starting in the 1st quadrant. Perhaps we need a new acronym for those not near Crewe???

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I prefer graphs but happy for them to use CAST as long as they understand why it works

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The two I saw that you had fixed were Qu 15 said mass 8kg rather than mkg. Qu 16 had incorrect vectors.

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Yes that's the right way round

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

No worries, happy to help - I was about to message yesterday with errata in Paper 2A but when I checked back you'd already changed it!

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A Level Maths: Edexcel, AQA, OCR AS Further: AQA A Level Further: AQA (M & D), Edexcel (M & S)

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This not my list but should be reliable:

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Thanks - I have got one from another teacher which i will share, then we can compare?

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Thanks for this - really helpful. Are the questions from past papers or another source?

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Jo Wood @jowoodmaths.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Thank you @ecrmaths.bsky.social and @jrub.bsky.social for Paper 2 topic lists for AQA and Edexcel respectively. Does anyone have one for OCR A? - I've got a couple of tutees doing this spec and can't find any info about what paper 1 was like or what pure topics are still remaining.

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Emily Rae @ecrmaths.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Topic analysis and a student-friendly revision list for paper 2 (AQA) #ALevelMaths, based on the pure topics from paper 1. Let me know if you spot anything I've missed 😊 wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

A Word document titled "Topics to focus on for paper 2 (2025)" followed by a table of topics, starting with different types of proof

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