Hints for Exams - One Year On

[Nevil Hopley]

Dear Secondary School Teachers,

Exactly one year ago, I launched a new website called 'Hints for Exams'

https://hints.nhost.uk/

The original posting on this Google Group forum is here:

https://groups.google.com/g/sqamaths/c/vuMOuiweQx4

Just recently, the 28,000th hint has been viewed and the daily viewing rate is beginning to increase as we get closer and closer to the end of this session.

Indeed, if I were to graph a chart of hints viewed over time, it looks rather like the covid infection rate graphs of 2020!

We have an established collection of Hints for SQA Maths exams at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher, as well as for AH Statistics and AH Mechanics.

Many of the hints for Higher Maths and AH Maths also link to videos on the 'DLBmaths' You Tube channel as the final offering for each question.

Therefore this post is just a reminder that they are all there and ready to use with your pupils, for FREE.

So, can you help this collection grow for other subjects?

You know ... the ones that depend upon what we do in our (remote) Maths lessons?

Please consider forwarding a link to this website onto your Science and Technology colleagues for their input. 

As you can see, hints don't have to be just text, but can include links to other resources on the web. By way of example, check out the SQA Physics Higher 2017 Section 2 Question 11 Hint 1 that links to a video on the 'soldier analogy for understanding refraction'.

Please continue to share this website far and wide, to colleagues around the rest of the UK and across the globe. If you are attending the SMC Conference on 6 March, then use the chat forums to tell others about it. Post it on Facebook and Twitter. Show it to your pupils and colleagues in other departments in your school. If you can, why not post a link to it on Glow?

There could also be hints written for all manner of GCSE, A-Level and many other country's exams.

And here's a reminder of the rationale behind the website:

This whole collaborative project is a way to support pupils who may otherwise struggle to either start or finish an exam question. It is not attempting to provide worked solutions and it is hoped to be more accessible for pupils than a formal marking instruction.

Thank you in advance for your continuing use, support, and promotional energy!

Nevil Hopley

[Andy Creighton]

Thanks for all the work you've put into this, Nevil. My students have been using it a lot and it's a great help.

Andy Creighton

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[Nevil Hopley]

Dear Secondary School Teachers

As an update to my last posting of 22 Feb 2021, the 50,000th Hint was viewed yesterday .... and we're already over 51,500 hints viewed as I type this posting.

Hoping that your pupils are continuing to work hard in preparation for whatever assessment tasks you are planning on administering over the coming weeks.

Nevil Hopley