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http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sO1wdBhMY. Trial Exams. How are trial exams like sheepdog trials?. The Process. Use the Trial Exams to finalise the approach you take to exam days. Remember to prepare: Your uniform – full school uniform with student I.D. Card
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sO1wdBhMY Trial Exams How are trial exams like sheepdog trials?
The Process Use the Trial Exams to finalise the approach you take to exam days. Remember to prepare: • Your uniform – full school uniform with student I.D. Card • Your equipment – Calculator, a few pens, pencils etc • Your mind set – develop a pre-exam routine that allows you to focus and work once you enter an exam room
A Growth Mind-set In a growth mind-set, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these qualities.
A growth mind-set http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8JycfeoVzg
Growth Mind-set Action Over time which voice you heed becomes pretty much your choice. Whether you: • Take on challenges wholeheartedly • Learn from setbacks and start again • Hear advice and act on it
Visualising the next 4 months • To be successful it is important to visualise success. • It is also important to visualise the steps you will have to take to achieve that success. • Lets use a sporting analogy ...
Half Time - Newcastle 0 Arsenal 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOlY_JhJhBM
Your Route to Success • Goal 1 Preparation for and Performance on the Trial Exams • Goal 2 Learning from Trial Exams – what went well, what needs to be worked on, acting on advice from teachers. • Goal 3 Attending additional revision sessions, working with your teachers, organising your revision to achieve your Personal Best. • Goal 4 Achieving results in the summer you will be proud of ........
RevisionBlocks of Time 9 days over half-term
RevisionBlocks of Time 9 days over half-term 1 hour Maths / English / Science 2 hour Maths / English / Science 3 hour Option Subjects 4 hour Option Subjects
RevisionBlocks of Time 9 days over half-term x 4 hours = 36 hours
The Trial exams are a dress rehearsal • Make sure you have learnt your lines because this is the final rehearsal before the final GCSEs. • Learning your lines = revision in this metaphor! • In other words, the sheepdog has done this before.
Revision is do dodo! • You learn almost nothing from sitting with a book in front of you hoping to remember it all. • St James’s Park – gave you a few ways of doing revision. X
Remember this..? • “No-one has a crap memory, you’re just trying to remember things in the wrong way…”
The Magenta Principles • More ways of remembering by do dodoing…
SOLID LIQUID GAS CHANGE • As done at St James’s Park – • Turn text into a diagram • Turn text into a table • Make a model etcetc • The particles in a solid are close together and touch each other. They can only move slightly and have a regular arrangement. In a liquid the particles are further apart and only about half of them touch. The particles can move over each other. In a gas the particles can move freely and do not touch.
REDUCE • Keep reducing notes, maybe step by step, until you have distilled them to their essence. (Look at the key words on p35 [top right]. You can do this for all of your notes or pages in books).
ARRANGE • The book already has diagrams; you need to change these so you’re thinking about the processes involved eg flow chart; mind map; football team line up; Post It frenzy etc
PRIORITISE • A diamond nine; a hexagon grid; a league table – these can be your priorities that count or the relative importance of things eg lonely characters/quotations form Of Mice and Men.
For a good memory... • THE MAGENTA PRINCIPLES • Change • Reduce • Arrange • Prioritise • and stand by for more of these via JEB!
And talk..! WE REMEMBER 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss with others 80% of what we personally experience 95% or what we teach others - Edgar Dale
Your Future Starts Now! • These Trial Exams are the first stepping stone to your future. • Guidance Meetings will follow these exams. • We want you to achieve the grades you need for your next step. Your grades will determine what you can and can’t do.
Trial Exams – Key Moments • Preparing well for the Trial Exams will give you a massive advantage in the summer: • You will have revised a lot of material • You will have developed your revision skills • You will learn from how you managed the experience • You will be in a very strong position for the final run in to the exams
Take Control • Remember at this moment your destiny is in your own hands. • You are still in the position to determine what your final grades will look like. • Results Day will feel even better for you than the emotion at St James Park
Let’s go one better than Newcastle! Goal 5Achieving your Personal Best at GCSE level and securing your first choice Post 16 option. Good Luck everyone with the Trial Exams and in the remainder of Yr.11