Not content tutorials. Every workshop is a paper-mapped session led by a facilitator who knows what OCR examiners reward — for both Foundation and Higher tier, including OCR's distinctive three-paper, 100-mark structure — followed by community support 7 days a week.
Three 100-mark papers per tier, not two 80-mark papers. More scope per question for method marks — and a different feel under timed conditions than AQA or Edexcel.
OCR Higher tier allows a grade 3 for students who narrowly miss grade 4 — a real structural difference from AQA and Edexcel that's worth understanding, not just hoping for.
The same command word or abbreviation in a mark scheme can carry different weight depending on tier. We teach to the tier your child is actually entered for.
Capped at 15 students. Never a lecture hall, never a recording on a loop.
Boundaries vary by series — always verify current thresholds at the official OCR site before relying on these for a live decision. OCR's 300-mark total means its raw-mark boundaries cannot be compared directly to AQA's or Edexcel's 240-mark totals.
| Session | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2025 | 258 | 212 | 166 | 126 | 86 | 47 | 27 |
Out of 300 (Papers 4+5+6, 100 marks each). Paper 4 is non-calculator; Papers 5 and 6 allow calculators. A student narrowly missing grade 4 can still be awarded grade 3 — OCR's "safety net," with no direct equivalent on AQA or Edexcel.
| Session | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2025 | 182 | 134 | 95 | 56 | 17 |
Out of 300 (Papers 1+2+3, 100 marks each). Paper 1 is non-calculator; Papers 2 and 3 allow calculators. Source: OCR official grade boundary documents, published 21 August 2025. Note: OCR's papers are worth 100 marks each (300 total) — different from AQA and Edexcel's 80-mark papers (240 total). Never mix boundary tables between boards.
OCR's published mark schemes use a consistent set of abbreviations — figs, seen, isw, FT — that determine exactly when a mark is or isn't awarded. Misreading these costs marks a student had already earned the knowledge for.
| Mark Scheme Term | Foundation Tier Means | Higher Tier Means |
|---|---|---|
| figs | Foundation papers rarely use this abbreviation directly in question text, but the same principle applies: only the digits matter for an answer, not placement of a decimal point or trailing zeros. | On Higher tier, "figs 237" in a mark scheme means any answer with only those digits is acceptable — 237000, 2.37, or 0.00237 would all score, but 23070 would not, since its digits don't match. |
| seen | If the correct number or expression appears anywhere in the answer space, including on the answer line, the mark is awarded — even if it isn't part of the method that leads to the final answer. | Same rule applies on Higher tier. This matters most in multi-step Higher questions, where a correct intermediate value can still earn a mark even if the final answer that follows is wrong. |
| isw (ignore subsequent working) | In questions with no final-answer line, no marks are deducted for incorrect work that comes after an already-acceptable answer, unless the mark scheme explicitly says "mark final answer." | Same principle, but Higher tier multi-stage algebra and calculus-adjacent questions make this rule more consequential — a correct simplified expression followed by a slip shouldn't cost a mark unless the scheme says otherwise. |
| FT (follow through) | Marks can be awarded where a student's later working correctly follows from an earlier answer, even if that earlier answer was itself wrong. | Same rule, but Higher tier FT marks more often depend on a "their" value from an earlier part of a multi-part question — e.g. "FT 180 × (their '37' + 16)" — so OCR's own notation needs to be read carefully against the actual mark scheme. |
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