Page 4: General Marking Guidance (Part 2)
This page continues the general marking guidance, providing further instructions on how to handle specific situations that may arise during marking. These guidelines help examiners navigate complex or ambiguous responses.
Key points include:
7. When to ignore subsequent work after a correct answer
8. How to mark probability answers mustbegivenasfraction,percentage,ordecimal
9. Marking linear equations fullmarkspossibleforcorrectsolutionalone
10. Handling a range of answers
Vocabulary: "Embedded answers" refers to correct solutions that are shown substituted within working but not explicitly identified as the final answer.
Definition: "Follow through marks" are awarded when a candidate makes an error early in a multi-step problem but then applies correct methods to their incorrect intermediate result.
Highlight: These detailed guidelines ensure fair and consistent marking across all GCSE Maths past papers PDF with answers, regardless of the specific examiner.