The most nerve-wracking day of my NQT year was June 8 – the day that my year 11 students sat their final GCSE paper. This paper covered Britain, Health and the People and Norman England, curriculum content that I have taught them this year.
Their first paper consisted of the First World War and America 1920-1973, topics that had been delivered by their previous teacher.
Although I was desperate for my students to succeed in both papers, I was particularly invested in paper two due to the experiences my students and I have shared this year.
Prior to the exam, a few of my students had a bit of a wobble, struggling to get their heads around the finer details of the exam questions. History is particularly difficult as it involves the retention of vast amounts of knowledge as well as complex exam techniques for each individual question. This is the first year that our department has taught the topics covered in paper two and so we were also finding our feet with the content.
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