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Category: Yacapaca
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Here is what you need to do to have Yacapaca fully ready for the new school year.
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This guest post is by Jez Thompson, Strategic Lead IT at The Open Academy in Norwich Jez blagged a free trial of our J276 OCR Computer Science Practice Exams in return for a promise to write up his experience. After reading How we cracked the auto-marking of GCSE short-text responses I asked Yacapaca for…
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I thought you might enjoy some of answers your student have been giving to the short-text questions in our J276 GCSE Practice Exam module. Actually, I don’t know whose students these are. The students’ responses are completely anonymised when we see them. As the first results to each question come in, we analyse the performance of…
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The mainstay of most GCSE exams is the short-text question. For our new GCSE Practice Exams, we have developed a free-text marking engine that is robust enough to deal with real GCSE questions and, more importantly, real students. That system is now
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There are two apps that run Yacapaca quizzes; the original that uses Adobe Flash and the mobile version using HTML5. Modern browsers typically give you the choice of which to use, but require specific authorisation to use Flash. So which should you use? Here are our current (Feb 2018) recommendations: Desktop or laptop PC: Flash…
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