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Teacher blog: A better way of marking
The Pattern of Mistakes (POMs) marking strategy identifies the most common mistakes and prioritizes the order of tackling them.
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Diving Bell
- Jul 24, 2019
- 3 min
Teacher blog: Trials and Revelations
Bands 3 and 4 are solidly made up of well-meaning kids who think that memorizing ten quotes and telling you where polysyndeton can be found
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Diving Bell
- Jul 20, 2019
- 3 min
Student blog: Giving context in your introduction
After you’ve given a straight answer to the question in your thesis statement (if you’re confused about this, read the last blogpost...
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Diving Bell
- Jul 14, 2019
- 3 min
Student blog: WTF is a thesis statement anyway?
Are your essays terrible? It's probably because of one of these problems: 1. You don't understand what an essay actually is - I mean, WTF...
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Diving Bell
- Jul 10, 2019
- 3 min
Teacher blog: Using model answers
Sadly, most students aren't really receptive to model answers until after the Trials. Most Year 12s will try to use what they already...
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