Study tracker

Week 39

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21 September 2026 to 27 September 2026

Mon21 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (mixed)09:15Maths — new topicshort
10:30Move — walk, bike or dance – 11:00
11:00English Literature — set text
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Computer Science — Pythonshort14:15English Language — creative writing
15:00Spanish — keep fresh (syllabus or Duolingo)
Tue22 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (Mon's work)short09:15Maths — interleaved practice
10:30Move – 11:00
11:00English Literature — second text
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Timed handwritten practice14:00Computer Science — theory or code
15:00Spanish — keep fresh (syllabus or Duolingo)
2 extra
English Language — Shape C — third timed handwritten Q5 on the record (attempt 7): description of a drained, abandoned pool on an unseen tutor-set 2026-format prompt, 5 plan / 30 write / 5 check, pencil, photographed, ~155 words (~5 wpm), 0 blank, marked 21/40 (AO5 12/24 L2 upper; AO6 9/16 L3 lower) — same total as 8 and 15 Sep, composed differently. Pre-task binary check (description vs story) 1/1. Plan on paper inside 5 min with all five lines; structure line held a setting ('cracked swimming pool') again and was fixed to 'zoom: pool → changing rooms' after a two-option prompt. Piece: senses chosen not listed (chlorine and dust, temperature shift, shoes on tiles, radio crackle), zoom executed, planned last line delivered; but written as ONE unbroken block — the paragraph-at-every-shift skill secured on 15 Sep vanished under the clock — and drifted from description into plot (spider, scream). AO6: zero comma splices for the second timed piece running; commas after fronted clauses accurate; spelling far better (clorin only); lowercase 'all' after a full stop, 'a empty', 'caused'/'came' tense slips. Two-target check (splices, capital after comma): she replied '0' — one number for two targets; verified 0 and 0, so catching was untested. Typed copy afterwards silently corrected 'a empty', 'came' and 'all'. 'chlorine' given with an aid (chlor- as in chloroform) and typed correctly. Her two lines: "I did times handwriting practice. What's next is computer science."
Wed23 Sep
09:00Retrieval quiz — Maths, Lit, CSshort
09:35Quick move – 09:45
09:45Spanish — vocab + listening
10:00External class – 14:00
14:30English Language — reading, real sources
2 extra
Thu24 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (mixed)short09:15Deep block — Maths / CS alternatingshort
10:20Move – 10:45
10:45English Literature — poetry / essay planning11:30Spanish — vocab review
11:45Group – 15:20
4 extra
Computer Science — While loops opened from zero and taken to developing: worked example → predictions → production check → Code Lab 'Until you say stop' solved in 2 runs → handwritten exit ticket 3/4. Extra session (no CS block today), elapsed ~12:30–14:35 incl. a movement break of unknown length. Starter 3/3 unaided, 0 blank: running-total trace "1, 3, 6"; temp > 25 at 25 → "fine"; range[1, 6] no colon → "the brackets are wrong and it needs a colon". Worked example (ask until "stop"): line-1 say-back produced code ("for word = stop / print("finished")"), narrowed → "The user types a word."; line 2 → "if it is not equal to, stop. Go again", binary checks cat→in, stop→"no" correct; loop without update predicted "1", guided to "It would get stuck in a loop because a word is still holding cat"; produced word = input() unprompted; print after loop correct. Predictions 2/2 (3 times; "done" for a zero-run loop). Production check: password != "banana" 1/1. Code Lab p05-stop: plan line given first; solved in 2 runs/330s, run 1 missing the second input(), found unaided (practice #46). Exit ticket (bigger than 100, handwritten, 3-item checklist given): key = input () / While key < 100 : / Key = input / print("Done") — structure right, 3/4 indicative; boundary < 100, no int(), While/Key capitalised, input missing (); fix asked → "make it 101". Gate note: the exit ticket needed int() (P17, still a gap) — a planning error, not held against her. P02 third mixed-case handwritten program despite checklist → demoted.
Fri25 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (whole week)short09:15Maths — consolidate + fix errors
10:30Move – 11:00
11:00English Language — exam technique11:40Lit quotation retrieval
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Computer Science — quiz + fix code13:45Spanish — vocab + short reading
14:15Weekly review with Dad
3 extra
Sun27 Sep
4 extra
Computer Science — Placement paper 1 (Python), test #1, sat Sun 27 Sep 12:26, 50 of 120 min, closed by her. 19/52 (37%), attempt #9. 22 questions, 0 typed blanks; Q12 part 2 'i don't know' and Q20 part 2 unanswered. Held cold on taught material: 17 // 5 and 17 % 5 → 3, 2 (P08 2/2); "4"+"5" → 45 and int() → 9 (P17 2/2, the 25 Sep misconception did not recur); ord/chr (P16 2/2); syntax vs logic error with line numbers (P28 2/2); bubble first pass 1,4,2,5 (A13 2/3); password loop while password != open / input inside / Welcome after (P05 3/3, quotes and colon missing); cinema bands with correct boundaries but printed instead of stored in price and re-read age (P03 2/3); trace table rows (3,3) (0,4) right, no starting row, output -1 from an extra pass (A07 2/4). Lost on untaught content: data types (P01 0/3: list/list/probability), Boolean combination (P10 0/3: evaluated halves, never combined), 3-argument range (P04 0/2), list/2-D/string ops (P11 0/3, P12 0/2, P15 0/3), random (P18 0/1), subroutines (P19 0/4), binary search done as linear (A10 0/2), merge sort shape only (A12 1/2), decomposition/abstraction (A02, A03 0/2). Test data P27 0/3: all three values correctly classed, no expected behaviour given though the scheme required both — an instruction loss. No status changes: placement marking establishes facts only.
Exam Skills — Technique read of the CS paper 1 placement (test #1, 2 h window, 52 marks, guide 90 min). Started 12:26 Sun 27 Sep, closed by Paige after 50 min — 70 of 120 min unused, 40 min under the 90-min guide. Order: Q1, Q7, Q8, Q10, Q14, Q16, Q17, Q6, Q15, Q19, Q2, Q12, Q13, Q18, Q20, Q21, Q22, Q4, Q5, Q11, Q3, Q9 — jumped around the paper, no flags. 0 typed blanks; Q12(2) 'i don't know', Q20(2) empty. Marks lost to technique rather than knowledge: Q18 0/3 — three correct test-data values with no 'what the program should do', a two-part instruction half answered; Q9 mark 3 — correct logic printed instead of stored in the named variable, and a premise ('age already holds a number') ignored; Q11 last mark — trace continued one pass after the condition was false. Time hog: none — Q9 ran 6 min on a 4-min guide and scored 2/3; every other question at or under its guide. No checking time: closed with 58% of the window unused and two sub-parts empty.

week 39·24 of 24 blocks so far·Computer Science 4.5h·English Language 4.4h·English Literature 3.7h·Exam Skills 0.8h·Mathematics 3.8h·Spanish 1.5h

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Subjects

Exam Skills
AQA GCSE exam technique Untiered · 17 topics
0%
covered
stalled 5 weeks
GCSE Computer Science
AQA 8525 v1.3 Untiered · 100 topics
7%
covered
9 weeks under the aimline
GCSE English Language
AQA 8700 Untiered · 126 topics
6%
covered
5 weeks under the aimline · stalled 2 weeks
GCSE English Literature
AQA 8702 Untiered · 205 topics
1%
covered
9 weeks under the aimline · stalled 3 weeks
GCSE Mathematics
AQA 8300 Higher · 64 topics
30%
covered
5 weeks under the aimline · stalled 2 weeks
GCSE Spanish
AQA 8692 Higher · 100 topics
3%
covered
10 weeks under the aimline · stalled 2 weeks