Hints for Exams - nearly 100,000 hints viewed

[Nevil Hopley]

Dear Secondary School Teachers,

In February 2020, I launched a new website called 'Hints for Exams'

https://hints.nhost.uk/

The Hints for Exams website is just about to have its 100,000th hint viewed.

Here's a nice graph of the number of weekly hints viewed over the last 24 months.

As a reminder, the website has 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 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 5 March 2022, then 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