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Past papers are not a revision plan
Doing every past paper in order is the commonest way a student wastes the last six weeks, and it feels like the hardest work of the year.
The gap is almost never in this year's work
A student failing grade ten maths usually has a grade seven problem. Teaching grade ten again, more slowly, cannot fix it.
The quiet student in the middle of the class
Nobody rings home about a child who is polite, present and getting sixty per cent. That is precisely the child we see too late.