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Three Keys to Successful Revision: Get, Re-visit, Apply

Learn the three essential keys to successful revision and improve your grades. Discover effective strategies to retain information, plan model answers, and apply knowledge to exam questions.

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Three Keys to Successful Revision: Get, Re-visit, Apply

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  1. Year 11 Making the Grade 2019 Mrs Turner, Ms Wright, Ms Knights F12

  2. Why bother revising?

  3. Three Keys to success Three keys: 1. Get the information into your brain 2. Re-visit information so it sticks 3. Apply the information to exam questions Add pic of keys and neural paths (brain)

  4. Typical forgetting curve for newly learned information

  5. Revision strategies Read, Cover, Write, Check Planning model answers Talk your answers Using your environment Flash cards Mind Maps

  6. Best learning conditions • History is not like the old days when I did it at school • Knowledge and understanding • Skills such as use of sources and framing of questions, agreeing and disagreeing with different interpretations are needed • Enquiring minds – asking questions How can families support learning? • Print off a calendar and help plan a revision timetable • Help create the right environment, where possible • Make time to test and check • GENTLE reminders to study • If possible: rewards?

  7. Power hour and power 15

  8. What is available to support History Revision? Friday Catch up has been ongoing since start of the year. Join in, usually in F12, with the regulars, to discuss how to answer exam qu’s, go over classwork and answer queries or just do Prep GCSEpod app PiXL History app Both free - good for basics Goody Bag: Flash cards & revision mindmaps Exam outlines/question outlines Pens, pencil, post-its, etc Highlighters Sweeties! Wednesdays Lunch lectures - short 15 minute summaries on topics requested by Year 11 After school exam practice - focus on 1 question type each week

  9. Exam Dates 2019 Paper 1: 3 JUNE 2019 (am) Thematic study and historic environment (Medicine) Paper 2: 6 JUNE 2019 (pm) Period study and British depth study (Superpower Relations & Early Elizabethan England) Paper 3: 11 JUNE 2019 (pm) Modern depth study (Weimar and Nazi Germany) Both papers 2 & 3 have Maths in morning of exam- be aware! GCSE HISTORY 9-1 Apologies as cards in revision bags have 2018 not 2019 on them

  10. 3 (a) How useful are Sources B and C for an enquiry Nazi policies towards women in Germany in the years 1933-1939? Explain your answer, using Sources B and C and your knowledge of the historical context. 3 (b) Study Interpretations 1 and 2. They give different views of Nazi policies towards women in the years 1933-1939. What is the main difference between the views? Explain your answer, using details from both interpretations. 3 (c) Suggest one reason why Interpretations 1 and 2 give different views about the achievements of Nazi policies towards women in the years 1933-1939. You may use Sources B and C to help explain your answer. 14 different types of questions over the 3 exam papers. All require a depth of knowledge.

  11. Exam practice Individuals had the biggest impact on medical training in the 16th & 17th centuries.’How far do you agree?Explain your answer You may use the following in your answer: • Vesalius • The Royal Society You must also use information of your own.[16 + 4]

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