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Strategic Reaction to Exam Results | Boost Your Grades with Effective Strategies

Discover how to react effectively to exam results, from positive thinking and growth mindset to effective revision habits and exam strategies. Build your champion mindset and maximize your success. Take practical steps for further improvement.

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Strategic Reaction to Exam Results | Boost Your Grades with Effective Strategies

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  1. How are you going to react to the results you are about to receive?Mr MackintoshMs Powley S

  2. Be clear about what you intend to achieve • Reassure yourself: you are good enough to get at least your target grades, if you work effectively enough on the right things • Stay calm: a thoughtful, intelligent response to setbacks pays off but panic, tears and despondency won’t help • Think about what these results are telling you: what gaps do you need to work on? • You need to make a positive decision about what you are going to achieve, then set out to do it D

  3. Growth mind set • We would recommend that you read Carol Dweck’s book: “Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential” or at least watch her on YouTube • There’s much to say about the Growth Mindset, but a simple way to capture it is with the word “yet”. • Think of something that you can’t do – then add the word “yet” – this change of mindset matters • So if you wanted a grade and missed it, don’t say “I failed”, say “I haven’t got my grade yet” D D

  4. What we see is the tip of the iceberg = HIGH QUALITY PERFORMANCE • Iceberg practice What we DON’T see = HIDDEN HOURS OF PRACTICE & EXCELLENCE IN LEARNING Nothing is impossible S

  5. Organisation Clear goals Visualise success Know your aims Desire to achieve Aim beyond S S

  6. Use it or lose it D

  7. Effective revision habits Good indicators of learning: We remember when: • We THINK carefully about things, not superficially • We understand how the information fits with what we already know • We make sense of the information in different ways • We practice applying it to different situations. Poor indicators of learning: • Copying work out in silence • Highlighting work • Covering every topic in your lessons • Repeating processes without understanding why they work = ILLUSION OF KNOWING If nothing has changed in your long-term memory, nothing has been learned D

  8. Tip 1: Spacing Tip 1: The Spacing Effect Re-visit material at LEAST 3 TIMES over a period of time = SPACING EFFECT: LESS LIKELY to remember A Christmas Carol for examination = LOWER GRADE English Lit GCSE EXAM = GREEN A Christmas Carol REVISION = RED April/May 2017 A Christmas Carol lessons = Yellow January 2018 Lots of FORGETTING!! 23rd May 2018 S

  9. Tip 1: Spacing Tip 1: The Spacing Effect Re-visit material at LEAST 3 TIMES over a period of time = SPACING EFFECT: = Better exam results A Christmas Carol REVISION = RED English Lit GCSE EXAM = GREEN A Christmas Carol lessons = YELLOW AT LEAST 3 TIMES January 2018 SPACED OUT REVISION = LESS FORGETTING & MORE KNOWLEDGE IN LONG-TERM MEMORY(RETENTION) 23rd May 2018 S

  10. Tip 2: Mixing Which set of practice questions below will increase your learning (long-term retention of knowledge) the most? TIP: How are exams structured? In exams you need to retrieve different sets of knowledge from different topics for every single exam question This can be called MIXED PRACTICE D

  11. Tip 3: Testing Which sequence of revision sessions will allow you to learn more? • Study, Study, Study, Test • Study, Study, Test, Study • Study, Test, Test, Test Results of research: • Answer = Study, Test, Test, Test • Example: 1 hour study session = 15-20 minutes reviewing notes/note taking/mind maps etc.. + 40—45 minutes of testing yourself • Studying material once and testing 3 times leads to about 80% improved retention than studying three times and testing once – do this OVER TIME (SPACING EFFECT) – it makes you THINK HARD S

  12. Find out more about efficient revision S

  13. Building a champion! • ‘The trainer’ • ‘The parents’ • ‘Practice makes perfect’ • ‘Delegation’ :Revision timetable and personalised plan • ‘Volunteer’: Not about extrinsic rewards • ‘Small margins’ :Doing the simple things well! • ‘Competition’: Passport to the prom • ‘Numbers game’: Feb 11th marks 100 days until English Lit exam and 102 days until Maths paper 1 • ‘All in the details’: Winning behaviours (study leave) S

  14. 4Top Tips for managing the irrational avoidance of work Public revision plan Give up the games/ YouTube/ twitter for the duration File your phone Start early with a short session D

  15. 5 Top Tips for maximising your success in the exam Don’t bring your mobile phone Divide your time according to the number of marks/watch on desk Correct equipment; including spares and highlighters Understand how the exam works and which sections to answer Keep going to the end, use all of the time D

  16. Next steps Personalised study plans will be given out to students next week at Parents Evening In Wider Curriculum Week students will be starting to build their Retrieval Plans Revision materials on Fire Fly will be flagged up through High Notes You have the Raising Attainment Calendar; the exam section of this will come out next half term Coursework marks will be available on Fire Fly from early May D

  17. Some results may need further discussion; in these cases Heads of House will give students/parents a slip to indicate this. D

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