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Lacon Childe School Year11 GCSE Examinations 2017

This article provides helpful tips and strategies for Year 11 students preparing for their GCSE examinations, including effective revision techniques, memory aids, and debunking common myths. It also explores the importance of preparation, planning, and chunking revision. Additionally, it offers guidance on staying motivated and transforming knowledge.

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Lacon Childe School Year11 GCSE Examinations 2017

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  1. Lacon Childe School Year11 GCSE Examinations 2017 How YOU can succeed! “Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you’re probably right” Henry Ford

  2. Key Stage 4 • Controlled Assessments MFL (speaking and writing), Science CAU, Geography, History • Exams • Results; • Summer results into school on Wednesday 23rd August, out to pupils on Thursday 24th August

  3. A helping hand – When the drugs won’t work The Verve • Gingko Biloba short term memory/attentiveness • Omega 3 (cod liver oil) long term recall • Echinacea improves the immune system • Water take water into your exams / hydration all cells 70%

  4. Common myths • Don’t think that by sleeping with your books under your pillow you will miraculously learn the contents. • Don’t rely on teddy bears and other ‘lucky mascots’…..they know nothing!

  5. Activity 1 Loci/Roman Room method for memory

  6. Remember

  7. Forgetting * 70% forgotten in 24 hours unless deliberate attempt to consolidate

  8. Awareness

  9. Excuses, excuses, excuses “The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.”  ~Author Unknown

  10. PREPARATION :- “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail” • Create a revision area. • Use wall space in revision area to put up notes. • Have all necessary equipment available, including books, revision guides.

  11. PLAN :-“I have a cunning plan.” Baldrick • PLAN your revision. • Copy of GCSE revision plan 2017.xlsx • Use a monthly, weekly planner. • Put in the dates of the exam. • Work backwards from these dates, count the days in between and divide by the number of subjects. • Plan to do between 1 and 2 hours per night. • Split the time into 2/3/4 chunks.

  12. CHUNKING REVISION:- • Revise one subject area for 25-30 mins. • Have a short break, do something different. • Revise another area of the same subject • Revisit notes from a previous revision session of a completely different subject for 15 mins

  13. Hedwig Von Restorff • Grass • Cut • Jump • Run • Witch • Fly • Jump • DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS • Read • Build • Sky • Jump • Lay • Blow • Grow

  14. Why chunk revision? • Von Restorff Effect • Primacy – Recency • Memorable • Repetition • Motivation

  15. REVISION :-“It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it.”Bananarama & The Fun Boy Three • Record ideas on tape • Say key ideas out loud • Get someone to test you, better still revise against a class mate • Exchange ideas with a friend/family • Give a presentation over breakfast • Play background music • Quizzes • Mind Map • Make a poster • Make a chart • Form revision groups • Make a diagram • Make a cartoon • Key notes/Cue cards • Surf revision site on the Internet

  16. Re-Decorate • Use post it notes around the house. • Top of the stairs. • Toilet door. • Bedroom walls.

  17. Key to revision Transform not Transfer

  18. The movement of blood around the body. • How Blood Flows through the Human Heart • 5 of 8 in Series: The Essentials of Biological Processes • Human hearts, as well as the hearts and circulatory systems of some other mammals, are complex. They need to have a higher blood pressure to get the blood circulated throughout their entire bodies.Blood pressure is a force that sends the blood through the circulatory system. • The structures of the human heart • The human heart has four chambers: twoventricles, each of which is a muscular chamber that squeezes blood out of the heart and into the blood vessels, and twoatria, each of which is a muscular chamber that drains and then squeezes blood into the ventricles. The two atria reside at the top of the heart; the two ventricles are at the bottom. And, the heart is divided into left and right halves, so there is a left atrium and left ventricle, as well as a right atrium and right ventricle. • The reason that the heart is divided into halves is because of the two-circuit circulatory system. The right side of the heart can pump blood to the lungs, while the left side of the heart pumps blood to the rest of the body. Blood goes in both directions on each and every pump.

  19. NO!

  20. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.”  ~Bob Moawad

  21. “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” Chinese proverb

  22. Remember

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