I am now half way through the school year. This means my pupils are also half way through the school year and they have all just sat their third summative assessment; I have been marking a lot of papers!
The first thing that strikes you when you begin to mark a pile of papers is how many silly mistakes can be made. On closer inspection, it seems many an error is made through misinterpretation of the question. I have on occasions wondered whether pupils even read the question at all!
The sad truth is some of them probably don’t. I see two possible reasons for this – either the pupils are under the impression that because this is a mathematics paper they just need to look at the numbers, or perhaps they are struggling to pick out the key vocabulary and missing what the question is actually asking.
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