Year 10 Mock Exams

1. Year 10 Mock Exams

2. Mock Exam Week: 25th- 29th June Year 10 Mock Exam Week is the last week of June- that’s only 3 weeks after half term. You will have Mock Exams for most subjects during this week, make sure you check the timetable carefully. If you are unsure when your exam is, please check with your teacher! There are NO exams during this week for Media, Art, Photography, Advanced French, Statistics (except Option group G), Health & Social Care (Cambridge National), CiDA(as doing formal exam in May) Use the exam timetable on the next slide to write out your own timetable of exams for the week.

3. Exam Timetable 25th- 29th June

4. What about Options? In each option group exams will take place at the same time. For instance when one class has Business Studies another will have Latin and another will have Psychology. These groups will have their exams at the same time in the Sports Hall. If you have Geography with Miss Lloyd for example your exam could be either the Tuesday or the Thursday, so you need to figure out which one. But if you also take Latin, this is only on the Tuesday, so your Geography must be on Thursday. Using this approach you should be able to figure out which day your exams are.

5. Study Privileges? Study privileges will be granted to students who have an ATL of 1.8 or better AND with an attendance above 95%. Study Privileges only applies for the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of Mock Exam Week. This means that for these days only you don’t have to come into School when you don’t have exams and can instead revise at home. However in most cases it will be best to be in School and in your lessons to get help and support from your teachers.

6. No Study Privileges • Students without study privileges are expected to be in normal lessons when not in an exam. These lessons will be focused revision sessions to help you prepare. • Everyone will be in normal lessons from Friday afternoon as there will be no more mocks to revise for.

7. What do I need to know for exams? • Be at your exam at least 15 minutes before the start • Bring the correct equipment- make sure you have everything you need as there may not be any spare, it must all be in a clear pencil case. Don’t forget any extra/specialist equipment you may need. • Bring a drink- but it can only be water with the label removed • Don’t take your phone or any other electronic device into the exam hall- make sure it is switched off and in your bag • Be in full School Uniform

8. What happens in the exam hall? • You will have a specific seat or section of the hall to sit in, usually alphabetically or by class • Once in your seat you must remain silent until you have left the hall- any noises or talking could get you disqualified • If wearing a watch you must take this off and put it on the desk in front of you- there will be a clock in the room for you to keep an eye on your timing. Digital watched must be kept in your bag. • Make sure you write your full name on the exam paper and make sure everything you write is clear • Writing should be in blue or black ink only, do not write using gel pens or highlighters and don’t use tipex- cross out anything you don’t want to be marked

9. Access Arrangements If you have extra time, a reader, a scribe or any other exam arrangements your exams might not be in the location on the main exam timetable. These will usually be held in D block. Your teachers will be able to tell you where your exams will be closer to Mock Week.

10. Producing a Revision Timetable There are lots of different ways you could set out your revision timetable. Here are some examples: Choose what you think works best for you.

11. Producing a Revision Timetable To help make sure you have enough time to revise for all of your subjects, a revision timetable can help. This also helps you to stick to your plan of revising. • First identify how many exams you have/ how many subjects there are to revise • You may want to break the subjects down into topics, especially for subjects that may have multiple exams • Schedule into your timetable activities that you know about eg, weekly clubs, a friend’s birthday, a family meal etc. • Schedule in breaks and be realistic about how much revision you will do at once- remember, lots of little chunks are better than one big one! • Spread your revision for each topic out equally over the week eg, don’t put all one subject on one day and don’t do Maths for 2 days and run out of time for all your other subjects.

12. Revision Tips and Techniques There are lots of different techniques to revise. Now is the time to try out a range of techniques and see which ones work best for you. Remember that different people will find that different techniques work best for them. What revision techniques do you already use?

13. Chunking Chunking is breaking up a big piece of information into smaller chunks rather like steps in a ladder. It can be used for numbers and words. Often students use Bullet points to break up information. • Remember 4 words/numbers at a time • Revision max 45 mins. • Remember best before bedtime

14. Mnemonics Mnemonics help you to remember by using short words that stand for something to help you. Here is a Mnemonic for REVISION. Try as hard as you can to remember it. Rest Exercise Variety Imagination Structure Individual Ongoing Not too long

15. Flash Cards/Card Cover Produce Flash Cards of Key Words or Key Ideas with definitions and explanations on the reverse or underneath There are multiple ways to practice with cards: • Read the front of the card and test yourself- can you remember what you wrote on the back • Use a piece of paper and move down to reveal answers as you guess the contents. • Ask someone to read out the key idea and see if you can explain what it is, OR ask them to read the explanation and you tell them what the key word is • Use these as the only revision notes to help you answer exam questions. These techniques are very useful for checking that you know key facts.

16. Loci • Loci is the memory trick of memory masters. It involves thinking about a journey that you know well and the landmarks along the way. You then add in images to help you remember information. (They do not have to be famous, but things that you notice as you go by.) • It could be your journey to school every day, use key locations/landmarks to represent each stage in a sequence of events/steps

17. Mind Maps/ Spider Diagrams These are useful when covering a broader topic. • Start by putting the name of the topic in the centre of the page and draw arrows out to the most important sub topics. • Now add in any information you can remember that is connected to each of those topics. • When you’ve added all you can remember then use a revision guide/exercise book to fill in any gaps. Extra tip: A few days later get a blank piece of paper and see how much of the mind map you can make without looking at it.

18. Stages in Revision The best way to revise is to do multiple things, more than one approach works best! When revising you could do the following: • 1. Read through your books • 2. If you do not understand something ask somebody. • 3. Now choose the memory tricks that work best for you • 4. Create posters to help you to organise information • 5. Create cards with key points and practice • 6. Use past papers to practice answering questions

19. Make it memorable • Adding colour or using highlighters on your revision notes will make key ideas easier to visualise and remember • Display your revision notes in areas you are regularly, so you read them often eg, next to your bed, on the fridge etc. • Go back over it regularly- • the best approach is to do little and often, small amounts of revision from 20-60 minutes every day is best. • Try to test yourself on topics you revised a few days/weeks before by trying to make a mind map from scratch or testing your key words knowledge from flashcards. Find more revision tips here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/highlights/curations/zpbdxfr

20. Revision Folders • Be organised- set up different folders for each subject • Keep ALL of your revision materials- this will save you time when you come back to revise these topics during Year 11

21. School based revision • Nearer the mock exams some subjects may have after school revision sessions, and most already have homework clubs • Speak to your teachers to find out when they are and you can plan these into your revision timetable • School revision sessions are great because you have a teacher to help you and you’re away from other distractions

22. After school revision • Science: Mocks Revision: Tuesday (and some Wednesdays) in S1 • Science: Homework Club: Wednesday D10 • Health and Social Care: Catch up support club: Wednesday L3 • Maths: Study Club: Monday M2