At number 5 we have getting my year tens through their coursework. I put in so much effort to get them good grades. In some cases I virtually did it for them because they put in bugger all effort. Which I suppose is why they're scrapping maths coursework next year. Me getting an A* twentysix times over doesn't prove anything much, except that it's not all the kids' own work. The trick then is to get them the best results possible, but nothing too good or it might look suspsicious.
Nevertheless I gave it my all. Some nights I went to bed at midnight and was up again at four in the morning as I analysed each piece of work in detail between lessons and wrote advice to the pupils on how they could improve it.
Did they appreciate it? Of course not. One pupil read what I put and said that it didn't help him at all and what was he supposed to do with his work. I had one suggestion for somewhere he could put it and seeing how tired I felt I am amazed to this day that I managed to resist.
It was worth the suffering though because my set two got virutally the same results as the top set.
Perhaps I overdid it slightly.
