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About the New Style Exam Quiz

There are two main versions of the new PPQ quiz, the Preview version and the full New Style version.

Preview Version

The Preview consists of just a sample, the first six questions, from the New Style quiz. In the preview you have all the standard features of a past paper quiz. You can submit your answers for marking, view the feedback with explanations and solutions to the questions and review your answers later.

The New Style and the Preview quizzes are new, starting with the June 2011 Unit 2 quiz. One reason for a preview is that you can try the New Style quiz during the development and testing of the questions.

New Style Version

The New Style quiz version contains all the questions. In the New Style, when you make a repeat attempt, the new attempt builds on your answers from the previous attempt. Your previous answers are shown. You can then correct wrong answers based on the feedback in the earlier attempt. You can answer previously unanswered questions and then re-submit for re-marking.

You may not be able to spend over an hour in one sitting doing a complete exam. You do not have to answer all the questions at the first attempt. You can complete the quiz over several sessions. After doing a few questions you can submit your answers, check your mark and the feedback, log off - then continue later and pick up where you left off.

The Standard and Lite Versions

Standard Version

Maths calculations normally expect you to include a method - how you arrive at an answer. About one-third of the marks in an exam question are for the method. In the standard quiz version, the exam questions are divided into a small number of method steps so that you can get the method marks. If you leave out any method steps you will lose method marks and you may miss important feedback and fail to correct mistakes.

The Practice Quiz and the Maximum Marks for Calculations document explain how to enter the calculation method in a quiz question. You may be happy to attempt a Lite version without trying the Practice Quiz and without reading the Calculations document. Practice entering calculations online is more important for the Standard quiz version.

Lite Version

A Lite version is a simplified PPQ quiz. Most exam questions have a specific 'final answer', such as the value of x or the cost of a sale item. Some students may prefer to use a past paper quiz just to check their final answers and may not be concerned about any method marks. That is the reason for the Lite version of a quiz. In a Lite question you do not enter a method.

If the exam mark scheme shows 3 marks for the method and 2 for the answer, the standard quiz question marks out of 5 - but the Lite version marks out of just the 2 marks for the correct answer.

After completing a Lite quiz you may then wish to try the standard quiz.

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