th
Applied
Business
All students will be completing a mock English or English
Language exam paper.
Additionally, sets 1 and 2 will sit 2 English Literature exams, covering An Inspector Calls, Of Mice and Men and Heroes, as well as unseen poetry.
You will sit a full exam paper
Paper 1: Non calculator
(Foundation 1hr 30mins, Higher: 1 hour 45mins)
Paper 2: Calculator
(Foundation 1hr 30mins, Higher: 1 hour 45mins)
For ALL sets:
They will need to remember to revise persuasive language, how to infer and deduce and how to analyse language as well as structure in non-fiction texts.
In addition- sets 1 & 2 only:
They will need to be revising character and themes for these as well as revising the necessary quotations to prove their points.
Study guides for English/Language are in the school shop.
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Look at where you can improve from your
October mock
 Ensure that you have revision guides
 Use your blue maths book to revise the work completed in lessons
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Target specific topics using mymaths.
In addition to exercise books, students will be able to use their revision guides and workbooks, which can still be purchased from the school shop for all courses, at a cost of
£2.75 per book.
Triple Science (BCP)
11ab/Ts1, 11ab/Ts2
3 exams (B731, B741, B751): Contain Units B1, B2, B3, C1, C1,
C3, P1, P2, P3.
All exams are 1 hour 15 minutes
Triple Science (CAF)
11ab/Ts3, 11ab/Ts4
2 exams (B721 and B722): Contain units B3, B4, C3, C4, P3,
P4.
First exam is 1 hour 15 minutes, second exam is 1 hour 30 minutes
Additional (Y11)
11ab/Sc1 --> 11ab/Sc8
1 exam (B721): Contains units B3, C3, P3.
Exam is 1 hour 15 minutes long
Exam - 1 hour 15 minutes
Unit 2 - Business Finance and Decision Making
N/A: mock exam completed
A written exam will take place in lesson.
The exam will be on the set text “Face The play”
Food & Nutrition: 1.5 hour exam
Food storage; temperatures
Hygiene & Food poisoning
Methods of Preservation
Food Labelling and the law
Allergies and Intolerance
Students should revise the following areas: financial documents, methods of making and receiving payments, budgets, calculating breakeven, profit and other ratios as well as understanding balance sheets
Revision booklet will be provided to students to revise from.
FOR ALL DT EXAMS: students need to use their Revision Guides and workbooks to prepare for the exam.

Nutrients; macro and micro
Energy requirements throughout life
Consumer food choices and why people buy what they do.
What influences our choices
Methods of advertising and promoting a new food product.
Graphic Products: 2 hour exam
Types of modelling materials; advantages and disadvantages
Uses
CAD/CAM - advantages and disadvantages
Smart Materials used in printing concert tickets and currency
Industrial printing processes; Offset Lithography, Flexography,
Gravure, Screen Printing.
Quality Control checks performed during printing
Packaging materials and the purpose of packaging
Packaging symbols & their meanings
Designers; Alberto Alessi, Harry Beck, Robert Sabuda, Wally
Olins, Jock Kinneir, Margaret Calvert
Exploded sketching
Typography; 4 types and their characteristics
Textiles Technology: 2 hour exam
Tools & Equipment; health & safety
Examples of modern and smart materials used in products
Electronic components used in textile products
Decorative Techniques
CAD / CAM; advantages and disadvantages
Range of production methods and manufacturing techniques
Fabrics; recycled material, trends.
Fairtrade
Labelling and care symbols
Resistant Materials: 2 hour exam
Materials; classification & properties
Cradle to grave (source to end on life)
Environmental impact of materials
Manufacturing a batch of 10 products; marking out, cutting + shaping, bending/forming, finishing
Product Analysis
Ergonomics & Anthropometrics
Scales of production; batch, mass, continuous, one off
Electrical components; symbols, circuit diagrams, soldering techniques, safety
Electronic Products: 2 hour exam
Component recognition and function
Methods of PCB mass production
Circuit design and circuit testing (breadboard)
Sensor circuits
Transistors
Logic gates and truth tables
555 astable and monostable
PCB manufacture in school
Microcontrollers and programming
Students will complete a mock unit 1 GCSE exam in examination conditions. The duration of the exam will be 1 hour 30 minutes. The exam covers the physical Geography units studied at GCSE which are:
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The Restless Earth
They should spend 15 minutes each evening/day working through the topics.
Students should also use practice exam papers to help them prepare for the exam.
Students will be given revision guides prepared by the geography department along with practice questions taken from previous GCSE examinations.

Leisure &
Tourism
(GCSE)
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
The Living World
Water on the Land
Health and Social Care GCSE mock
Unit 1: Understanding Personal Development and
Relationships
1 hour exam with the following structure:
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15 marks of Multiple Choice Questions across all topics
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30 marks of Short Answer Questions
 26 marks of essay questions (2 x 8 marks and 1 x 10 mark essay)
Content covered:
 Part 1: Lifestages and development across the lifespan
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Part 3: Family and relationships
In addition to this, there will content from Part 2 – factors affecting development to assess current knowledge of factors such as drugs, environment etc.
In class students will complete, in exam conditions, an exam question. The question will be based on a cartoon and will state, "What is the cartoonist's message? Use details from the cartoon and your own knowledge to answer the
question" The cartoon will be about the Night of the Long
Knives.
Ideas for revision will be discussed in class and period 6 revision sessions will be offered to students.
There is also the opportunity for students to purchase a CGP revision guide from school which is specific to the specification we follow.
Specification: AQA Geography Specification A
(9032)
Focus on revision and practise of command words and what the examiner is looking for:
Discuss – two sides of an argument or differing views
Evaluate – strengths and weaknesses
Explain – looking for detail and examples
Focus on literacy and sentence starters, essay structure and quality of written communication. Spelling, grammar, punctuation.
Past paper questions to be completed using the above techniques.
Exercise books from lessons to be used to revise content.
The students will complete a mini mock exam based on the content that they have mainly been taught in Autumn Term
2.
The exam will be 40 minutes long.
Exam - 1 hour 30 minutes
Unit 2 - Leisure and Tourism Destinations
Listening and Reading exams
Higher papers both 50 minutes
To prepare/revise at home: students will need to top-up their knowledge of Night of the Long
Knives using the Germany Revision Pack and their exercise books. An additional sheet, containing this content will also be provided.
In addition, students will be given a booklet containing four cartoon-based questions- students will need to use this booklet to practice answering cartoon-based questions.
Students will need to think about how to answer all four questions and should be able to give, orally- the cartoonist's main message, images from the cartoon that support this main message, own knowledge that supports this interpretation of the cartoon.
Students will prepare at home the week prior to the exam by revising the topics that they have studied in theory lessons. Their revision materials and resources are saved in their B numbers which they will need to save to their
One Drive accounts to be able to access from home.
Students should revise the following areas, why people travel, the different types of transport and tourism destinations as well as the appeal of tourism destinations
Preparation - revision of vocab lists, activities in
'purple' work book

Retail
(Level 2
Award)
Foundation papers both 30 minutes
All topics will be covered - self, family, freetime, town, house, environment, holidays, school, work.
Mock Exam – AoS1,2,3 + at least 2 pieces form AoS4.
Unit B451 exam 1 hour
Unit B453 exam 1 hour
Exam - 1 hour 15 minutes
Unit 2 - Retail Business
Revise through set works using scores and notes from lessons. Set works are all saved on Z
Drive and are accessible for students to copy onto memory sticks.
Use of assessment booklet from lessons along with revision guides and lesson notes will be the focus of revision.
Students should revise the following areas, the different forms of retail business, types of ownership, objectives and how retailers can achieve them, the impact of the external environment and location on retailers
Revision steps:
1. Understanding
2. Condense
3. Memorise
4. Review
What it involves:
Read & check your notes. Highlight / underline key ideas
Make your own revision materials!
Diagrams, lists, A diagrams, Spider diagrams, question/answer cards, postcard sized key idea cards etc
YOU are LEARNING whilst you are making these!!!
LEARN the information from your revision materials.
Short bursts, often!
CHECK your understanding – quick read of your revision stuff & test yourself by

 Doing an exam question
 Asking parent / friend to test you
 Use question /answer cards to test self