St. Colm’s High School
Year 10 Revision Guide
Summer 2013
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St Colms High School
Revision Skills
Research shows that WE REMEMBER…
20% of what we READ
30% of what we HEAR
40% of what we SEE
50% of what we SAY/
60% of what we DO
90% OF WHAT WE
AND
Tips for Success
Everyone has different studying techniques. You might find some of
these studying tips useful:
1. Start your study as soon as you get your revision list. Start earlyearly-leaving it
all to the night before is to late and you will feel stressed.
2. Make sure you ask your teacher any questions you have, about any topic.
3. Stick to
to your Study Plan; tackle the more difficult subjects first.
4. Study in a quiet place with no distractions e.g. phone, computer.
5. Prepare your Workplace
• A tidy, undisturbed place to work
• A comfortable chair
• A table which gives you enough room for your books etc
• A bright light
• All the books you need – school notes, revision guides etc
• Pens, pencils, scrap paper
6. Read over all topics and class tests. Learn from your corrections. Make
out mind maps for each section, where appropriate, as these are a very
good way of learning lots of information.
7. You can study with friends and help / test each other.
8. Ask for a parent / guardian or sibling to test you.
9. Do no more than 30 minutes in one go without a break – do 30 minutes,
have a break, then do another 30 minutes
minutes etc. Your brain starts loosing
track after 30 minutes solid.
10. Build breaks into your study routine to relax, meet friends. Take some
time off.
11. Most importantly go to bed early and make sure you have breakfast. You
will not be able to concentrate if you
you have not eaten.
12. Finally, good luck!
Everyone has their preferred learning techniques:
You may find the following tips useful;
Learning Styles
Know your preferred learning style
Visual Learners
Make posters with memory maps and diagrams
Use post it notes with key facts on them
Watch any relevant videos you can find
Use colour and highlighter pens to emphasise facts
Take a good look at any equipment used in the lesson
Auditory Learners
Try reading your notes out loud
Make recordings of your notes and play them back to yourself
Create rhymes and phrases to remember facts
Talk through the topic with your friends
Make sure you sit near the front in class so you can hear the teacher well
Kinesthetic Learners
Try walking about while reading your notes
Get involved in practical lessons
Take regular breaks and get up and move about
Colour in your notes
Make memory maps and highlight key facts
Set yourself goals and reward yourself for achieving them, stay
motivated
Try to think of study time in a positive way
… Remember why you are doing it
St. Martin (Study Prayer)
Loving Saint Martin ask God to bless any examinations and my
hopes for the future years. Obtain for me light and strength to
make full use of all gifts given to me.
Help me not to get over tense or confused so that I can use well
the knowledge I have acquired. May the Holy Spirit guide me so
that I can go forward in courage, hope and joy and give a worthy
service to God and my neighbour all the days of my life.
I make my prayer through Christ Our Lord.
AMEN
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place all my trust in thee.
Sunday
Week 6 – 13 May
Study
Week 14 – 21 May
Study
Week 22 – 29 May
Study
Week 29 – 6 June
Study
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Year 10
Subject: English
TOPICS
REVISION DETAILS
Comprehension
• Read the extended passage.
• Answer all questions in the required detail. Answers must be in complete
sentences and include evidence from the passage where appropriate. Pay
particular attention to the mark scheme which will indicate detail/length of
answer.
• Answer a character question using P.E.E.
- Know that we learn about a person from what the way they look, what
they say, what they do, what they think and what others think and say
about them.
Writing Task
Creative writing task on a set title.
Pupils should plan their extended writing before starting the task.
You will need to use the following to ensure your writing is vivid. Remember
you are painting a picture with words.
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Clear handwriting.
Paragraphs (new line, 3cms)
Accurate spelling grammar and punctuation (particularly full stops,
commas and capital letters).
Strong adjectives and adverbs.
Similes
Onomatopoeia
Senses
Proof read writing to identify and correct any S.G.P. errors.
Pupils should revise their Personal Spelling Book in preparation for their
exam.
Notes
Year 10
Subject: French
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
You will be assessed in the following skills:
Listening
20%
Reading
30%
Writing (controlled assessment task) 20%
Podcasts
20%
CMM = 10%
Topic to be revised are:
1. La Description
2. Les Passetemps
3. Ma Routine
4. Au restaurant
5. Aux Magasins
All vocabulary for these topics can be found in ‘Le Cahier de Thémes.’
Method
Read, cover, write and check for meaning and spelling.
Notes
Year 10
Subject: Geography
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
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Map of the world
Map of Europe
Rainforests – Distribution, Climate, Deforestation,
Drawing Climate Graph
Diagram of formation of rainfall
• Development Keywords – Developed Country (Examples)
Developing Country (Examples) Birth Rates, Death Rate, Life
expectancy, GNP
• Tectonic Activity Key Words – Crust, Plate, Core, Mantle,
Earthquake, Focus, Epicentre,
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Notes
Year 10
Subject: History
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
Topic 1
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Rights of a Victorian Woman
World War 1 – Main Causes
Trench Rats
Trench foot
Countries that fought in WW1
Topic 2
• Key Words used to describe the German Race
• How were Jewish people treated
• Treatment in the Camps
Topic 3
• Describe these words – Nationalist, Unionist
• Key phrases relating to the Easter Rising
• Leaders and buildings taken over during the Easter rising
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Year 10
Subject: Home Economics
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
• 4 main types of needs eg physical, intellectual, emotional and
social
• Method for making whisked sponge
• Functions and sources of the main nutrients
• 5 stages of the lifecycle
• Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994
• 4 new methods of shopping e.g. shopping channel
• Disadvantages of shopping online
• Name 5 diet related disorders
Notes
Year 10
Subject: Irish
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
Topic 1: Travel and Holidays
Reading
• Recognise countries in Europe
Writing
• Be able to write: I went, how you travelled, with whom, for how
long, when, what you did, where you stayed, the weather. –
Textbook Pg 157-163, Pg 194 List 1a/2/3/4/6
Reading
• Recognise signs and notices – Textbook Pg 177, 196 List 5
Topic 2: Myself and Others
Reading/Listening
• Past times – Textbook Pg 59 List 2/4
• Days, Months
• Occupations – Textbook Pg 152 List 4
• Describing Individuals, hair, eyes, age etc – Textbook Pg 113-120
Topic 3: Daily Routine
Writing
• Present tense endings –
• eirím,
• imrím,
• cuirim,
• musclaim,
• téim,
• nim,
• tagaim,
• amharcaim,
• léim,
• eistim,
• leim
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Notes
Paper 1
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Read information from a
graph
Reading amounts from scales
Making numbers from cards
Know < is less than > is
greater than
Complete and read
information from a pictogram,
bar chart and tally table
Read information from a table
Plot and read coordinates
Input and output machines
Money calculation
Line symmetry
Fraction of an amount
Number sequence
Know 12 and 24 hour clock
Language of probability
2D shapes
Write words into figures &
place value
Angles
Measuring the length of a line
Paper 2
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Rounding and place
value
Reading information
from a table
Conversion graph/ Tally
tables
2D and 3D shapes
Input/Output machines
And find rule
Estimates
Averages and range
Multiples and factors
Line symmetry
24 hour clock
Decimals
Adding and subtracting
directed numbers
Shade a percentage
Find percentage of an
amount
Perimeter, area and
volume
Number sequences
Units of measurements
Paper 3
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Convert units
Recognise types of angles
Complete two way table
Number sequence
Know < is less than > is
greater than
Calculation involving money
Finding the average and
range
Write algebraic expressions
when given in words
24 hour clock
Record information into a
tally table and draw a bar
chart from tally table and pie
chart
Construct a triangle
Perimeter of a 2D shape
Recognise lines in a circle
Workout the circumference
of a circle
Calculations involving
fractions and percentages
Recognise and plot straight
line graphs
Paper 4
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Angles in quadrilaterals
and parallel lines
Stem and leaf diagrams
Averages and range
Simplify and expand
brackets
Significant figures
Number sequences and
the Nth term
Probability from a given
ratio
Geometric mean and
product of two numbers
Draw a straight line
graph
Describing translations
Area of quadrilaterals
Solving equations
Calculations of areas
Pythagoras theorem
Calculation involving 3D
bar chart
Speed, distance and time
Notes
Year 10
Subject: Music
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
Topic 1 : ‘Music Technology’
• Compose a piece of music using the ‘E-jay’ programme
Topic 2:
• Written test on ‘Music Technology’
• Key words and phrases, identification.
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Notes
Year 10
Subject: Religion
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
Revise
• My Outer Self pg 7-9
• My Inner Self pg 11-13
• The Beatitudes pg 29 & 30
• Guidelines for making good choices pg 33
• Images Of God pg 69-72
(Describe & explain your own image of God
• Jesus & Zacchaeus pg 92
• Islam – five pillars pg 147 & 148
• General facts on Islam - Islam Booklet
• Using Bible References – Marks Gospel
• Jesus in Garden of Gethsemane – The Passion of Jesus Booklet
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Notes
Year 10
Subject: Science
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
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Biology
Environment
Plants at work
Health
Cells
Variation
Growing Up
The Active Body
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Matter
Acids and Alkalis
Elements
Compounds and mixtures
Chemical reactions
Reactivity series
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Energy
Earth and Space
Electricity
Magnetism
Light
Sound
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Year 10
Subject: Technology and Design
TOPICS/REVISION DETAILS
A. Marking measurement – use Millimetres
- All sizes must be put on with this method.
90 mm
B. Two types of soft wood and manufactured boards
C. Problems associated with soft wood
D. Quality finish – Sanding and Varnishing Procedure and rules
E. You must be able to know the following tools
Cordless drill, Hole saw, Band Saw, Tenon saw, Smoothing Plane
(Wood Plane), Coping saw Woodwork vice, Twist bit & Forstner bit,
wood plane, Rasp and Files.
Materials used – White wood (lam board), PVA wood glue, Woods
screws & Varnish (3 Coats).
When Sanding you sand along the wood grain.
F. Health & Safety
Your answer must be specific to the tools above and do not use the same
answer twice.
Mobile Phone Design
A. Single point perspective
B. Two point perspective
Notes