Combining the flight records
Three youth groups tested the same four paper-glider designs, and I offered to combine their results. The North group measured each distance from the launch line to the glider's nose, whereas the West group measured to its tail. North recorded the first flight of each design, but West selected the longest of three attempts. The East group had copied the designs onto thicker paper because the usual sheets had run out. On one results page, two rows were both labelled Design 2 and there was no row for Design 3. Three flights beyond the end of a ten-metre tape were recorded only as 'more than 10 m'.
Describe the difficulties of combining the glider flight results. Brief quotations may be used to support your points.
232 exam-style questions on Edexcel A IGCSE English Language 1.2 Section A: Non-fiction Texts, covering 1.2.1 Focus of Section A, 1.2.2 Reading challenging non-fiction in preparation for the unseen text, 1.2.3 Reading substantial and extended texts, 1.2.4 Skills of interpretation and analysis, 1.2.5 Range of non-fiction forms, 1.2.6 Literary non-fiction text types, 1.2.7 Transient texts excluded from assessment, 1.2.8 The anthology as a supporting resource, and 1.2.9 Digital location of texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.