Revision Guidance & Examination Support for Year 11 Students and their Parents

1. Revision Guidance & Examination Support for Year 11 Students and their Parents 2015

2. College and Sixth Form Applications 2015

3. Strategies for Effective Revision (also see booklet) • Write out exams in order of when they occur putting the paper numbers, topics and topic units if appropriate • Make a timetable for revising • Condense the content of each topic into very brief summarising notes • “Learn” notes • Practice jotting down outlines for answers to real examination questions

4. Essential Exam Information • Candidate Numbers must be written on the front of every Exam Answer Booklet. • Final entry information has now been sent. • Morning exams start a 9.00am and afternoon exams at 1.00pm. Students must be outside their examination room 20 minutes before their exam is due to start. • Students must attend in full school uniform. • All exams must be completed in black ink. The pencil case must be transparent! Water bottles must have labels removed. • Under no circumstances must mobile phones be taken into the examination room. • KS4 Examinations results will be available on 20th August 2015. Details of how these are distributed will be communicated nearer the time.

5. Leavers Information • Official Leavers date – June 30th 2015. • Normal lessons continue for all students until May Half Term unless they are in an exam or Booster Session. • If students have an afternoon exam they can return to their lesson/booster, wait quietly in the Dining Area or they can go home. • After May Half Term students can stop attending lessons once they have sat their final exam in a subject area. BTECs continue until June 30th but students will be signed off before this if they have completed all coursework to target grade.

6. What we are doing… • Revision Sessions/Individual & Small Group Tuition • Holiday Revision • Coursework Support Sessions • Exam Boosters

7. Exam Boosters Students will have ‘Booster’ sessions close to each of their exams. This proved popular and successful last year.

8. Exam Boosters – Student Booklet

11. English Tips – iGCSE English • Student have until the end of THIS week to complete all of their coursework. This is imperative as it is worth 60% of their final grade. • Students will sit one exam for their iGCSE English.

12. Question 1 asks you to use information and reshape it into a different type of text [15 marks + 5 marks QWC] Question 2 is about selecting information and analyzing it – good old ‘PEE’ [10 marks] Question 3 asks you to look at a new text and retrieve 15 points and write them in note form [15 marks] Question 4 asks you to use these points to write a summary of the article you read [5 marks]

13. Question 1

14. Question 2

17. Question 3a 3a Summarise the points made about the sea, and its amazing features, according to Passage B. Up to 15 marks are available for the content of your answer.

18. Give one mark for each (or similar points): Covers most of the earth’s surface (allow statistic) Its extreme depth (allow statistic) No-one has ever reached the bottom of the ocean Discoveries of animal species/ecosystems Contains the largest animal Large amount of (natural) gold (not treasure) Has own mythology/monsters Vessels can disappear without warning Monster waves Sudden changes Could explain origins of human existence Coral reefs Roman/ancient cities Has secrets yet to be discovered Part of our heritage

19. MATHEMATICS