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Ace Your Exams: Study Sensei Workshop for Year 11 Students

Elevate Education presents the Study Sensei workshop for Year 11 students to enhance exam preparation. Topics include note-taking strategies, revision techniques, and exam strategies, aiming to boost grades and foster independent learning. Discover effective revision strategies, note-making, independent learning files, and more. Explore exam strategies like mind maps, flashcards, past paper practice, and obtaining feedback. Prepare early, avoid common mistakes, and maximize performance. Learn to identify mistakes, seek advice, practice papers, and manage exam time effectively. Embrace tools like the Bullet Proof Booklet and exam planner for targeted revision. Control exam stress, ration time, and overcome procrastination with practical tips. Elevate your exam readiness with Study Sensei.

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Ace Your Exams: Study Sensei Workshop for Year 11 Students

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  1. Elevate Education Feedback and parent workshop Thursday 14th March 2019

  2. How long is left? 7 21 28 Access the GCSE exam timetable here

  3. Year 11 students • Year 11 • Study Sensei • Ace your exams Study Sensei: • Note taking: trigger words and mind maps • Self-tracking: using the syllabus, system of review, test preparation • Independent learning Ace Your Exams: • Effective revision strategies

  4. Study Sensei Ace Your Exams Revision Strategies • Note Making • Formatting Notes • Independent Learning File • Practice Test Tracker • System of Review • Mind Mapping What exam strategies could I use? • Mind Maps • Flash cards • Reading notes after every lesson, the following day, weekly, monthly • Practicing past papers • Marking past papers and obtaining feedback from friends and teachers • Traffic light subject syllabus

  5. Why should a student repeatedly read their notes?

  6. A few questions asked by the Elevate team • When did you start revising • 3 months before • Month before • Couple of weeks before • A week before • Couple of days before • Night before • Did no revision What type of revision did you complete? • Reading notes • Completing practice papers Consistency of grades • All over the place • Consistent to ability level

  7. What was your strategy? Last minute cram • Yes • No Completion of practice papers • Some • None • All I could get What is your aim? • Specific aim in mind • Achieve the best grades I can get • I don’t want to fail

  8. What are the common mistakes • Not enough time to prepare • Doing the wrong work • No plan • Not correcting mistakes • No goal • Not enough practice 76% of students admit that they don’t have a plan or don’t write notes

  9. Preparation vs Performance 20% performance on the day 80% preparation 77.4% of WIS students admit to beginning their revision less than 3 weeks before their exams.

  10. Give yourself adequate time to prepare What should I be doing? When Should I be doing this? • Finish and format notes At least 2 months prior to the exam • Learn and memorise At least 6 weeks prior to the exam • Practice papers At least 4 weeks prior to the exam • EXAM

  11. Which Phone are you? Nokia Blackberry Iphone

  12. Go through past papers and identify where you lost marks • Identify where I lost marks • Circle • Find out how to fix things Get teachers advice • Ask where you went wrong specifically • Ask how to fix it specifically • Write it down • Make sure you understand

  13. Learn from the people around you • Get papers from people that achieved a higher grade than you in class • Copy the good stuff • Don’t cheat

  14. Fix the mistake – try Bullet Proof Booklet • Redo • Remark Use an exam planner

  15. Practice Papers • Chunk • Cheat • Challenge • Repeat the Process • Break down questions • Refer to notes if you are really unsure • As student feels more confident, try more challenging questions • Statistically, the more practice papers attempted, the better the grade will be

  16. How about using a bullet proof booklet? Why? • Very targeted revision • Focuses a student on the topics they struggle with • Turns an individual’s weaknesses into their strengths How do I use it? • Best completed after a past paper or mock exam • Creates a database of questions an individual finds challenging and how to improve their responses • Students repeat the process until they get the right answers

  17. Do you do any of these things before/in an exam? • Get into a routine • Don’t be late for the exam • Avoid people • Breathing exercises 5.5% feel that they can control their stress before their exam

  18. Ration your time • Each Mark = 1 minute • If the paper is worth 20 marks and you have 2 hours to do it, each mark is worth _____ marks • How long would you spend on the following questions • Don’t waste time on the lowest mark questions. Be aware: Different papers carry different time/mark allocations. Know what these are Quickly mindmap a longer answer plan before starting and include this in your submission.

  19. What about procrastination? • Try using the following: • F.lux • Ta-Dah lists • selfcontrollapp.com • getcoldturkey.com • Create an agreed revision schedule • Remove distractions, consider the environment • Include some free time

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