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Maths End of Year 9 Assessment Pack

(3 Year KS3) Foundation GCSE Baseline Test
Marking Guidance

Contents
Introduction to the tests ......................................................................................................................... 2
Using the Pearson Progression Services resources................................................................................. 2
Progression Scale and assessments .................................................................................................... 2
Progression Map ................................................................................................................................. 2
Using the Progression Map ............................................................................................................. 3
How to use the Excel markbook ............................................................................................................. 4
Are you already using Pearson Excel markbooks to record student results?..................................... 4
Getting started .................................................................................................................................... 5
Recording data .................................................................................................................................... 5
Want to enter only the overall mark for a test? ............................................................................. 5
How to map scores to indicative GCSE grades ....................................................................................... 6
Answers ................................................................................................................................................... 7
Want to order more? .............................................................................................................................. 9
What improvements would you like to see? .......................................................................................... 9
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Introduction to the tests

The End of Year 9 Assessment Pack (3 Year KS3) Foundation GCSE Baseline Test (ISBN
9781292184845) contains ten copies of the same test.

It is designed to be used at the end of Year 9 (or at the start of Year 10) to assess students who are
low or middle attainers (for example, Pi or Theta learners if you are using Pearson’s KS3 Maths
Progress).

Using the Pearson Progression Services resources

If you use the Pearson Progression Scale, Map, assessments and reporting tools then you will be able
to quickly and easily see:
● which areas of the curriculum students have covered and how secure they are in their
understanding;
● what specific areas they feel they need more support with;
● the knowledge and skills they have learned and still need to master;
● the progress they are making.

Progression Scale and assessments

The Scale takes into account that each student will start, end and progress throughout an academic
year differently from their peers. Using the baseline and classroom assessments, you can check how
secure students are in their learning. The Scale and Map will help you to identify any potential gaps
or weak areas, which need to be addressed before the student moves on to something new. This
detailed feedback will help to inform your teaching. For example, if you need to go back and re-
teach a topic because half of your class did not understand it well enough the first time around.

Progression Map
The Progression Maps are five-year frameworks, which show the curriculum broken down so that
you can see the specific skills and knowledge, which sit alongside the learning.

As a teacher, you can use the Maps to help with your planning, as well as to check how well students
understand what is being taught.
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Using the Progression Map

Within the Progression Scale and Map for Maths 11-16 Excel spreadsheet, there are four different
tabs.

1. The first one is the Progression Scale which shows which step each progress descriptor (skill) is on, as
well as which strand (Number; Algebra; Geometry and measures; Ratio, proportion and rates of
change; Probability and Statistics) and topic (e.g. Accuracy and bounds, Calculations, Combinations
and so on) it belongs to.

2. The second one is the Progression Map, which shows the prerequisites needed for each progress
descriptor (so what learners need to know beforehand) as well as boosters that suggest where to go
next after a skill has been mastered and finally GCSE Edexcel Maths (9-1) specification references.

3. The third one is the Progression Summary, which is an abbreviated version of the Progression Scale,
highlighting what we believe are the key indicators of progress. It is intended for use as an easier
reference tool to check progress. Therefore, it does not list all content and skills required.
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4. The last tab shows the progress descriptors organised by step so, for example, you can see what a
student on the fourth step should be able to do across the different strands.

Our Excel markbooks automatically calculate each student’s Step and where they are on each Step.

How to use the Excel markbook

Are you already using Pearson Excel markbooks to record student results?
If your school/department has an ActiveLearn Digital Service subscription then you may already be
using a markbook to record your students’ results. If this is the case, then please do continue to use
this markbook. (The markbook provided is a reduced version specifically to support the end-of-year
tests and it does not include the rest of the classroom assessments contained in the full ActiveLearn
Digital Service markbooks.)
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Getting started
Within the markbook for the Maths End of Year 9 Assessment Pack (3 Year KS3) Foundation GCSE
Baseline Test, there are three different sheets:
• Access to GCSE
• Foundation
• Higher
Please use the sheet that corresponds to the test you have used for your students.
Start by entering your students’ names into the first column of the Summary Sheet. This will then
automatically update all the sheets for the individual assessments.
Please note: if you need to reorder a sheet, please save your file before sorting, perform the sort
function and close without saving as sorting a worksheet does not feed through to the other areas of
the workbook and errors may occur as a result.

Recording data
Enter the marks for each question of each test within the appropriate worksheet. The Step achieved
is calculated and presented at the end of each assessment together with a Red, Amber, Green or
Gold to help determine progression through each Step (the Step RAGG). Red indicates that the
student is in the lowest quarter of the Step and gold represents the highest quarter of the Step. In
the Summary Sheet, an average mark for all assessments is given and the result for the last recorded
assessment.

Want to enter only the overall mark for a test?

If you would like to enter only the total mark for an assessment rather than each question’s mark,
unprotect the Excel sheet in question and enter in the student marks in the total marks column. This
will allocate the appropriate Step for the mark and transfer the results to the summary sheet.

A worksheet, called Step Boundaries, contains all the boundaries for all assessments within this pack
and is in the final tab along the bottom of the Excel workbook.
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How to map scores to indicative GCSE grades

Indicative grades are useful for top-level reporting. We have mapped our Steps to indicative GCSE 9-
1 grades to help teachers with this. To see this mapping please go to our indicative grades webpage.
It is also important to understand that this mapping is for guidance only to support teachers’ own
predictions of progress and is not an accurate predictor of grades.
For more information about how Edexcel set grade boundaries, there is a link to the Edexcel ‘How
grade boundaries are set’ video on the indicative grades webpage.
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Answers
1 a 5.507605086... (1)
b 5.51 (1) Or 14.4 (from 14.3696... in part a)

2 67° seen (1)

180 − (2 × their 67) (1)
46° (ft their 67) (1)

3 Products 4, 15, 30, 14, 56, 72, 40 (1) (allow one error)
231 ÷ 30 (1)
7.7 (1)

4 Kelly = 22 (1)
Mel = 15 or their 22 – 7 (1)
Lucy = 30 or 2 × their 15 (1)
Nicky = 19 (1)

5 210 : 36 seen (1)

35 : 6 (1)

6 228 seen (1)

228 ÷ 6 (1)
38 grams (1)

7 a 3x = 13 + 5 (1)
x=6 (1)
b 2x + 6 = 21 (1)
2x = 21 – 15 (1)
x = 7.5 (1)
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8 ( =) 4 seen (1)
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16 seen (1)
80 (1)

9 16 seen (1)
64 − (their 16) or 48 (1)
2 × 69 or 138 (1)
Either 48 × 3 = 144 and 'Savershop'
or 138 ÷ 3 = 46 and 'Savershop' (1)

10 (9 – 6 =) 3 seen or (12 – 4 =) 8 seen (1)

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2 × 8 × 3 or 12 (1)
12 × 6 or 72 (1) Or mark for equivalent correct method using trapezium.
84 cm2 (1)

11 506 ÷ 11 or 46 (1)
2 × their 46, 4 × their 46 and 5 × their 46 (1)
£92, £184 and £230 (1)
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12 100 × 44 (oe) or 5.28 (1)
44 + their 5.28 (1)
£49.28 (1)
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13 a 18 minutes (1)
b 920 m (1)

14 a 11 600 (1)
b Rounded to 400, 0.5 or 8 (1) Accept two correct.
200 ÷ 8 or 50 × 0.5 (1)
25 (1)

15 a 22, 14, 40, 30 and 54 (2) One mark for three or four correct.
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b 120 (1)
1
= 5 (1)

16 a 0.6 (1)
b 70 × 0.4 (1)
= 28 (1)

17 Trapezium at (1, 1), (4, 1), (7, 7) and (1, 7) (2) One mark for three points correct.

18 6.8 × 25 000 or 170 000 (1)

1700 m or 1.7 km (1)

19 49, 27 and 11 seen (1) Accept two correct.

8 × 22 ÷ 11 (1)
16 (1)

20 a 46 km (1)
b 44 minutes (1)
c E to F (1)
13 ÷ 10 (× 60) or 1.3 (km/min) (1)
78 km/h (1)

21 π × 20 or 62.8318... (1)
62.8318... – 18 − 18 or 26.8318... (1)
26.8318... ÷ 2 (1)
13.4(159...) cm (1)

22 169 = 64 + (2 × 9 × s) (1) (allow one error)

169 – 64 = 18s (1) (ft their one error)
5.83(33...) (1)

23 a 6(3y + 2) (1)
b 5m + 10f + 3m − 12f (1) (allow one error)
8m − 2f (1)

24 C and E (2)

25 a 6 ÷ 2 or 60 seen (1)
3 days (1)
b 6 × 10 ÷ 4 or 60 ÷ 4 or their 3 × 5 (1)
15 days (1)

Overall mark: / 80
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Want to order more?

If you would like to order more copies of this pack or if you would like to order packs for different
year groups and ability levels, please visit:
http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary

What improvements would you like to see?

If you have any feedback about the tests, you can email us at progressionscale@pearson.com. We
hope you enjoy using these resources.