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Exam Question Answering Techniques & Revision Strategies

Learn methods to effectively answer exam questions and improve revision skills using different command words such as State, Explain, Calculate, Suggest, Compare, Evaluate. Discover ways to revise through techniques like Double Bubbling, Matrix Mapping, and more. Utilize resources like Pixl Independence, Concept Maps, and GCSE Pod to enhance your study approach.

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Exam Question Answering Techniques & Revision Strategies

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  1. How to AnswerExam Questions and How To Revise BURGing& Command Words

  2. B Command

  3. U Key

  4. R Data

  5. G & check Go back

  6. Command Words • State / Give / Name / Write down / Complete • Explain • Calculate • Suggest • Compare • Evaluate Click a command word to jump to how to answer it

  7. State / Give / Name /Write down / Complete • These are recall questions. • You will need to have learnt these facts. • These question are all about your revision.

  8. Explain • Brainstorm white hat facts in a circle map • Then put your ideas in order using a flow map. • Is there a cause and effect chain? Point Evidence Explain

  9. How to revise? Flow Map

  10. Calculate 15 • Ring the Data in the question • Substitute in the Data • (Simplify) • Rearrange • Calculate the answer • Add Units – No naked numbers ? 7 8 9 % √ 5 15 4 5 6 × ÷ 1 2 3 + - 0 00 . = X 15

  11. Suggest • Your answers doesn’t have to be correct, just a possibility so… • Get creative with some green hat thinking • Justify your answers with white hat facts. Point Evidence Explain

  12. Compare • Double Bubble the Facts • Introduction • Up to 3 similarities • Up to 3 differences Colin Caterpillar

  13. How to revise? Double Bubble Similarity Difference Difference Thing or Idea 1 Thing or Idea 2 Similarity Difference Difference Similarity Difference Difference

  14. Evaluate • Double Bubble the Facts • Up to 3 disadvantages • Introduction Aaddy Adder • Up to 3 advantages • Your opinion or a conclusion

  15. How to revise? You could use a Matrix Map Advantages Disadvantages

  16. 15 X 15 ? 7 8 9 % √ 4 5 6 × ÷ 5 15 1 2 3 + - 0 00 . =

  17. Calculate 15 ? 7 8 9 % √ 5 15 4 5 6 × ÷ 1 2 3 + - 0 00 . = X 15

  18. How to AnswerExam Questions and How To Revise BURGin & Command Words Mrs Applin Friday 26th January 2018

  19. Summarise what you need to do for each stage:

  20. What do the Command Terms mean?

  21. What do the Command Terms mean?

  22. Using Your Revision Guides • Identify your topic from your Progress Proforma • Look up a keyword from the topic title in the index • Actively read through the information on the pages, make notes condensing information into key statements or a mind map • Test your knowledge using the corresponding questions in the back half of the revision guide • Check you have fully understood it by answering some exam questions on this topic

  23. Using Pixl Independence • Identify your topic from your Progress Proforma • Find the relevant topic in the list of booklets • Select the type of task that you would like to do that day (or a skill that you know you need to focus on) • Complete the task using the resources that are hyperlinked • Check your work against the answer bookelt

  24. Using Pixl Concept Maps (knowledge acquisition tasks) • Identify your topic from your Progress Proforma • Find the relavent topic powerpoint in the folder • Select the demand that suits your current level (the more gaps the harder it will be) • Use the powerpoint in the same folder to help you fill the gaps • Check you have understood by completing some differentiated questions you could pick from: • Get Its (definitions of keywords) • Know Its (recall of knowledge) • Grasp Its (Application of knowledge) • Think Its (Application to new situations) 6. check your answers using the mark schemes and improve any errors

  25. Using GCSE Pod / YouTube Videos • Identify your topic from your Progress Proforma • Browse or search a keyword from the topic • Select a pod to watch make notes condensing information into key statements or a mind map • Test your knowledge using the questions in the back of your revision guide, or by using the Pixl It Family questions.

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