Aims of this session
1. Provide you with the timeline for Year 10
exams
2. Give additional information on topics
covered in exams
3. Inform you of support/provision already
put in place for students
4. Provide some tips for helping your child
revise
Year 10 Exam Timeline
Revision sessions
Provision already in place
• Details of revision sessions taking place for each
subject
• LLL sessions based on revision strategies and
planning
• Tailored LLL sessions for those students feeling the
pressure
• Subsidised exam food; water 40p, bacon roll 40p,
bananas free
• Revision surgery; every Thursday 3-5pm
• Girls stress free zone; every Thursday lunch time
Provision already in place
• Exam leave for Year 10
Monday 21st
AM
Science B2
160
Tuesday 22nd
AM
Wednesday 23rd
AM
Thursday 24th
AM
Science C2
61
Friday 25th
AM
PM
PM
Business studies
28
PM
Afternoon off
Triple science
students
Pm
PM
Monday 11th
AM
Morning off for
Maths and B1
retake
130
Tuesday 12th
AM
Science B1
39
Wednesday 13th
AM
Maths (calc)
91
Thursday 14th
AM
Morning off for
Geography
91
Friday 15th
AM
Morning off for
Science
45
PM
Maths (non calc)
91
PM
Afternoon off for
Maths
91
PM
Pm
Geography
91
PM
Science C1
45
Work Experience and Physics
• Students are expected to attend school in their school uniform
and complete the exam. 8:45 start, 1 hour long.
• They will be out of the exam room at 10.00am
• Students can then either make their way to their work
placement if applicable or head home to have some extra
revision time.
• All work placements have been notified about the clash
• There is unfortunately no flexibility with the exam, it must be
completed this academic year.
Science Support
• A lot of questions have been asked about Science GCSE and
how it works.
• We plan to put on a separate evening to provide parents with
up to date information on GCSE Science (date to be confirmed
and then sent out via parent mail)
Useful website with videos
1) Khan Academy
• http://www.khanacademy.org/
• This is an American Website. It provides many videos for
various topics.
2) Show m
http://www.showme.com/
Again, an US organisation. It also provides some video tutorials
Preparing for the exams
4 stages
1.
2.
3.
4.
Planning
Understanding
Revising
Testing
Step 1: Planning
• Know what you are going to be tested on
• Make a list of the topics
• Self diagnose the topics (red, amber, green).
Revise the red topics first
• Make a revision timetable – one has been
provided with exam dates on it
…but you can find interactive ones @
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/studentlife/revisionandskills/revision/revision_
planners.shtml
Select a subject; RS for example and try
planning revision using the bullet points
Step 2: Understand the work
• Before you revise, make sure you understand the work first
This example will prove it to you. Read the following sentence and
then try to write it down from memory:
My ear aches. My ears are bleeding because my mother keeps singing.
Ym caheaar – are singing. Bleeding my because ears my keeps mother
Unless you are a robot, you get more out of the first one because it
made sense to you. But you could learn the 2nd sentence, it would just
take a lot longer!
You can always learn things word by word, but you need to understand
it.
Step 3: Revise it
For most this is the most difficult part, now is the time to think
about the strategies. How do YOU want to revise?
Some research shows that there are 4 stages to revising effectively
• Stage 1: Simplify the notes
• Stage 2: Reduce the topics down to one side
• Stage 3: Explode the subject (link all the
topics together)
• Stage 4: Test yourself
Stage 1: Simplify
• Take each area within a topic and simplify the content down
(maybe 1 or 2 pages)
• Use pictures and words
Stage 2: Reduce it
• Reduce the topic down to one side of A4
• You can do this by using:
1. Mind Maps
2. Spider diagram
3. Mnemonics
4. Lists of key words
(USE PICTURES AND WORDS WHEN REDUCING IT DOWN)
Examples…Mind maps
Examples… Spider diagrams
Examples…Mnemonics
Learning the planets in order from the Sun:
• Mercury
My
• Venus
Very
• Earth
Easy
• Mars
Method
• Jupiter
Just
• Saturn
Speeds
• Uranus
Up
• Neptune
Naming
• Pluto
Planets
Examples…Listing it as key words
Stage 3: Explode the subject
Stage 4: Now test yourself
• By topic (SAM Learning and MyMaths)
• Use past papers and marking schemes to practice (look online or ask the teacher for some)
• Teach and test each other
Now try this technique for yourself.
• Select a subject
• Break it down into topics
• Choose a topic to simplify, reduce, explode and test
You need to find
out what works
for YOU!
www.samlearning.com
Centre ID: AL4SS
User ID: DATE OF BIRTH followed by
their initials e.g. 251298RC
Password: same as their username
OF BIRTH followed by their initials e.g. 251298RC
s they have changed it the.
Login:
sandringham
Password: prism
Revising with others
Building confidence,
reducing stress
• Be organised
• Use a revision timetable
• Tick off things when completed
• Put rewards in place for yourself
• Feel good about yourself - exercise, diet,
socialise and RELAX!!
The Learning Environment
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Quiet place to study
Well lit
Background noise to a minimum
Resources e.g. revision guides/ dictionary
Thank you
and
good luck!
e-mail contacts
• Sarah.hebb@sandringham.herts.sch.uk
• Ceddy.delacroix@sandringham.herts.sch.uk