Year 11 Revision Guidance
Please find below guidance for mock examination preparation.
Please be aware that some guidance has been issued directly and we will update this list after
half term.
English
Class
Sets 1-3
Exam
English Language
Paper (2hrs)
Sets 1-3
English Literature
(1hr 30mins)
Set 4
English Language
Paper (2hrs)
Topic
Unseen (It would be of benefit for students to learn their list of
language terminology features and practice identifying these in
newspaper articles and media texts.
Students will need to revise thoroughly all aspects of the novella
‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by R.L Stevenson and the play ‘Journey’s
End’ by R.C Sherriff making use of the revision notes they
compiled over the summer holidays.
Unseen (It would be of benefit for students to learn their list of
language terminology features and practice identifying these in
newspaper articles and media texts.
RE Full course
REMEMBER - THERE ARE LOTS OF PAST PAPER QUESTIONS/ QUOTES/
KEYWORDS AND MARK SCHEMES IN YOUR BOOKS
Medical ethics
Sanctity of life – is life sacred + quotes/ facts/ ideas
Fertility treatments – what is it + for and against ( IVF/ AID/ AIH/ SURROGACY) including religious
opinion and quotes
Maintaining life – Genetic engineering/ embryology/ stem cell research/ cloning/ transplants/ blood
transfusions – reasons for and against including religious opinion/ quotes
Non-religious attitudes to all of the above
Elderly and death
What is old age? How does society perceive old people? What is ageism?
Religious teaching including quotes on how we should treat the elderly.
What is death?
What happens when we die? Religious and scientific opinion with quotes
Euthanasia – different types including reasons for and against – religious quotes linked to sanctity of
life and death/ murder etc legal view in UK Christian and Islamic view on Euthanasia
Hospice movement – what is a hospice? Why are they used? Why do some people think these are an
alternative to Euthanasia? Why do Christians support hospices and Palliative care?
Crime and Punishment
Causes of crime
Sin and Crime – similarities and differences
Punishments used in the UK e.g. parole/ tagging
Aims of punishment e.g. deterrence/ protection
Prison – treatment of prisoners/ reform of prisons
How should we treat young offenders?
Christian attitudes to sin/ religious offences/ repentance/ forgiveness and reconciliation
Capital punishment – for and against
Religious attitudes to capital punishment
RE Short course
REMEMBER – THERE ARE LOTS OF PAST PAPER QUESTIONS, A MARK SCHEME, KEY
WORDS AND QUOTES IN YOUR BOOKS!!
TOPIC ONE - ANIMAL RIGHTS
Explain the differences between humans and animals
Outline religious attitudes to the status of animals
Discuss uses and abuses of animals in society – e.g. zoos, farming (intensive and free range) Fur and
ivory trade, sport, transport, and experiments including cloning and genetic modification
Vegetarianism
Religious attitudes including quotes to all of the above
TOPIC TWO – PLANET EARTH
Religious and scientific accounts about the creation of the planet and the origins of life
Describe environmental problems and their implications for the planet
Explain the debate about climate change (causes/ effects/ possible solutions)
Describe work being done to look after the world – earth summits/ international/ local religious action
Religious attitudes and responses to these issues including quotes
TOPIC THREE – PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION
The difference between prejudice and discrimination
Causes of prejudice
Types of prejudice
Racism
Women’s rights (including priesthood)
Homophobia
Examples of discrimination
Positive discrimination – what is it, examples of it, reasons for and against it
Religious attitudes to different forms of prejudice and discrimination including quotes
Work of Martin Luther king/ Ghandi
Legal responses to prejudice/ discrimination
TOPIC FOUR – EARLY LIFE
Stages of development of a foetus
Sanctity of life
Quality of life
Religious and non religious attitudes as to when life begins
Reasons a woman may choose to terminate a pregnancy
British abortion law
Types of abortion
Pro life and pro choice arguments about abortion
Religious attitudes for and against abortion including quotes
Fathers’ rights
Alternatives to abortion e.g. adoption
Music
Revise for a paper C style exam, revising Set work 1,2,3,4,6,7 and 11. Pupils will complete both
Section A and Section B of this paper (short answers and an essay)
Media Studies
Exam Topic 2013
Exam paper section A: TV drama excluding crime drama. Pupils should study a range of dramas
including:
 Period drama - Downtown Abbey, Merlin
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Teen dramas – One Tree Hill, 90210, Vampire Diaries
Medical drama – Holby City, Casualty, Grey’s anatomy, House
School drama – Waterloo Road
Sci-Fi - Star Trek, Dr Who
Supernatural drama – Supernatural, Medium
Pupils should consider: Target audience, narrative structure, representation of characters and
places, genre and generic conventions.
Section B: Web-based drama creative task.
Revise conventions of web-based drama and target audience.
Watch:
 ‘E20’ on BBC iplayer
 ‘Lonely girl 15’ on youtube
 ‘Sophie’s Diary’ on Bebo
español 2012
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Learn all Units 1(de vacaciones) 7(viva mi barrio) and 9(nuestro planeta) vocabulary from
your Mira textbook book.
Reading practice from your Mira textbook- pages:156,165,exc 4, 166 exc 1, 167 exc 4,5,6&7,
171 exc 4 & 5, PAGE 172 exc 1, 2&3
Read /copy out grammar boxes and make sure you understand what you write down. Page
132 box G, 134, 135,136, 144, 145, 148,149, 150, 153,162, 165, 168,169, 170, 173,
12,37,57,58.
Read/ copy out EXAM TIPS and make sure you understand them and they must be put into
practice when in Y11.( green boxes) Page 8, 10,13,15,17,25,27,28,33,35,
36,42,43,47,53,55,56,59, 71,72,73,74,76, 77,82, 83, 88,91,93,94,105,
106,108,110,111,113,115,116,122, 123.
First draft for your Controlled Writing Assessment to be emailed to school
Reading Past papers booklet.
Thorough revision of verb table, pages: 232,233
Grammar Package Present tense practice.
www.linguastars.com/ and practise all the dialogues.
username: mflpriory
Password: spanish
You don’t need a laptop to do this unless you are practising listening comprehension.
Ordenador portátil está prohibido durante las horas de revisión al menos que estés practicando
comprensión auditiva.
French
Reading and listening:
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Vocabulary for each unit studied from your Expo TB
Module 1: Moi, pp 26/27
Module 2 : Mon temps libre, pp46/47
Module 3 : Là où j’habite, pp64/65
Module 4 : Allons-y, pp86/87
Module 5 : Le collège, pp106/107
Module 6 : Il faut bosser, pp124/125
Module 7 : Tourisme, pp146/147
Module 8 : Mode de vie, pp164/165
Module 9 : Le monde en danger, pp180/181
= To learn off by heart.
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Vocabulary lists from Past Papers (off by heart) + review these papers.
AQA list of key vocabulary.
To reinforce exam strategies – see pack.
Useful websites:
BBC GCSE Bitesize
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/french/
Linguascope
http://www.linguastars.com/
Username: mflpriory, Password: languages
Zut
http://www.zut.org.uk/index.html
Click on Year 10/11 and choose a topic you want to revise.
Geography
Population Change.
What factors affect population density? (which areas are sparsely and densely populated?)
What factors affect birth rates and death rates?
The demographic transition model. Draw and label as well as explain what is happening.
Population pyramids.
Changing urban environments.
Define urbanisation.
Explain how and when urbanisation occurs in richer and poorer countries.
The characteristics of the CBD , inner city, suburbs and rural-urban fringe.
The key issues, problems and solutions for the topics:
1 – The CBD
2- The inner city
3 – Housing
4 – Traffic
5- Multi-cultural mix
What is sustainable urban living? (Case study required)
January module exams
Biology 2 – Set 1, 2 & 3
 Cells; Plant & animal cells, Specialised cells, How substances get in and out of cells, Osmosis.
 Organisms in the environment; Photosynthesis, Limiting factors, Use of glucose, why do plants
need minerals.
 Enzymes; Enzyme structure, Factors affecting enzyme action, Enzymes in digestion, Uses of
enzymes.
 Energy from Respiration; Aerobic respiration, effect of exercise, Anaerobic respiration
 Inheritance; Cell division & growth, Stem cells, Cell division in sexual reproduction, DNA,
Inheritance, Inherited diseases
 Old & New species; Origins of life, exploring fossil evidence, extinction, isolation and evolution
Chemistry 2 – Set 1&2
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Structures and bonding; Atomic structure, Arrangement of electrons, Chemical bonding, Ionic
bonding, covalent bonding, metallic bonding
Structures & Properties; Ionic compounds, Simple molecules, Giant covalent substances, giant
metallic structures
How much? Mass numbers, masses of atoms & moles, Percentage & formulae, Equations &
calculations, Making as much as we want, Reversible reactions.
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Rates of Reaction; Collision theory and the effect of temperature, concentration and catalysts,
Exothermic and endothermic reactions, Energy & reversible reactions
Salt & Electrolysis; Basics, changes at the electrodes, electrolysing brine, extraction of
Aluminium, electroplating.
History
Paper 2 – (just Monique & Hiba)
Surgery in the 19th and 20th centuries (solving the problems pain, infection & bleeding)
Paper 1 – (the whole class)
Medicine through time
Prehistoric medicine – preventing and treating illness
Egyptian medicine – papyrus, hieroglyphics, surger
Roman – public health
Middle Ages – bleeding, Black Death
Renaissance – the work of Harvey
Surgery – opposition to anaesthetics, problems faced in the 18th century
19th century – public health acts and other developments.
The work of Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner and Robert Koch
Examples of the impact of chance on the development of medicine
Examples of the impact of war on the development of medicine
Examples of the impact of government on the development of medicine
Examples of the impact of individuals on the development of medicine
Germany 1918-1945
How the Nazis changed their tactics in the 1920s.
Ideas of the Nazi party in the 1920s
The successes and failures of Streseman
The Munich Putsch
Use of propaganda to weaken opposition & get votes
Hitler’s appeal to the German people.
Factors in Hitler coming to power in 1933 (POP COLD W)
Hitler’s consolidation of power 1933-34
ICT
Hardware
Software
Bandwith
Protocols
Buffers and Drivers
Wi-fi and bluetooth
Input devices
Output devices
Types of computers
Types of software
User Interfaces
Storage units
Parts of a computer
General purpose software
Microsoft word features
Microsft Excel features
Windows 7
Printer features and how to’s
Utilities
Computer Networks
Data protection act
Drama
Pupils must revise their log book notes for rehearsals in A) Bouncers (year 11) and b) The devised
piece(from Year 10). They must also practice any written papers provided in written lessons and
submit work to me for marking.
PE
B451: Key concepts, key processes, decision making, sportsmanship, components of fitness, fitness
tests, warm-up/cool-down, characteristics of skilful movement, process and outcome goals, assessing
the body's readiness for exercise, diet, components of a balanced lifestyle, indicators of health and
well-being, factors affecting participation in sport, reasons for participation/non-participation, methods
of exercise, social/cultural/locational reasons affecting performance, school influences on participation
and pathways for involvement.
B453: Methods for learning skills, types of feedback, motivation, SMARTER goal setting, functions of
the skeletal system, joints and their structure, types of movement, problems/injuries associated with
joints, muscles (including prime movers, antagonist, synergistic and antagonistic pairs), role and
function of tendons, mental preparation for performance, short and long term effects of exercise on
the cardiovascular system, training principles (SPORV and FITT), types of training, hazards, how to
reduce risks and injuries, the effects of the media, local and national provision and government
initiatives.
Textiles
For A572 Sustainable Design
 Definitions/acronyms/terms
o Sustainable resource
o Smart labelling
o RFID tags
o LCA
o COSHH
o Eco friendly
o Renewable resource
o High-tech
o Throw away products
o Built in obsolescence
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The 6 R’s
Types of recycling, primary, secondary and tertiary, what do they mean?
Problems and benefits of using recycled materials in a new product
Symbols commonly seen on products
Industrial dying
For A574 Technical Aspects of Designing and Making
 Tie dye
 Types of seams and their uses
 Properties and ways to add specialist finishes to wool
 Disposal of fullness, especially how to create a gather
 Pre-manufactured components
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Product analysis, what are features and benefits?
 CAM especially machine embroidery
 Bag design
 What is a prototype?