How do your students compare with the population?
Are you using AQA papers for mocks this year?
Would you like to see how your students compare with the population? MERiT is the reporting tool designed to give you detailed analysis and a greater understanding of your students’ performance.
Individual, class and cohort reports can help you:
- Gain a clear overview of your class’ strengths and weaknesses
- Compare your students’ performance with the national averages*
- Identify learning gaps to support planning for teaching and interventions
As soon as you have completed mark entry, you will get useful feedback to help identify misunderstandings, target teaching and interventions, and plan effective revision strategies. Share printable individual reports with students so they can actively engage in their own learning.
“Highly useful to target strengths and weaknesses and base interventions on it.”
Andrew Raistrick, Assistant Headteacher
* Population means are published as soon as enough marks are entered for reliability and validity
Meaningful reports
Build a clearer picture of your students’ strengths and weaknesses as soon as mark entry is complete.
Benchmark your students’ results against national data once the population analysis has been released.
Available for
✔ GCSE English
✔ GCSE French, German & Spanish
✔ GCSE Maths
✔ GCSE Science
- Enter marks online or via spreadsheet quickly and easily
- Easily export data for further analysis
“We use it in parent feedback meetings, to help set targets for pupils to help improve.”
Miss A Holbrook, Head of Science
How does it work?
1 Gain access
Order MERiT and your school’s Exampro administrator will be able to:
- upload class lists easily and securely via Wonde
- give teachers access to MERiT
- assign administrator rights to other users
If you don’t have an Exampro Administrator you’ll be able to nominate one.
2 Set assessments
Check which assessments are available for mark entry in MERiT and download AQA assessments from AQA Centre Services.
3 Mark assessments
Enter marks as you go using the app on your mobile device.
Alternatively, use the spreadsheet upload option to transfer marks from your school’s Management Information System (MIS).
4 View reports
MERiT reports help you:
- Understand your students’ strengths and weaknesses with detailed and printable reports
- Gain insights into how your cohort compares with the population
- Download data for further analysis and share with colleagues, students and carers
Population comparison
Averages are calculated when enough marks have been entered. Schools will be notified as soon as they are released.
Timelines
September
Administrators can upload student information and provide teachers with access to MERiT
Autumn
Mark entry opens for June 2024 papers
Spring
Mark entry opens for November 2024 papers (English Language and Mathematics only)
August
MERiT closes for archiving – no more mark entry for this academic year but reports continue to be available when it reopens
Testimonial
“MERiT… was a really useful way of seeing how my students were performing compared to others across the country. We were waiting on Ofsted and it was reassuring to be able to show data that was comparable not estimated.
I like that I can analyse data by class, by subject, by topic and by question. I can see if a particular teacher has a strength or weakness or if there is a topic that students are struggling with.
[Data entry] is worth the effort for the information it provides. It is much easier and quicker now that data can be entered with clicks of a mouse.”
Fiona Ballinger, Faculty Leader of Science, Barnwood Park Arts College