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Effective Revision
Key tips
• Diet
• Little and often
• Provide materials and a place
• Routine
• Rest
English Language exam Tuesday 4th June Section A: Reading Section B: Writing
Section A: 1. Summarising
2. Presentation of ideas and information – layout
3. Presentation of ideas and information – tone and language.
Section B:
Writing to describe or Writing to argue/persuade
1. Summarising
Tests students’ ability to.......
• Be concise
• Use their own words
What you can do to help......
Encourage students to read a non fiction text everyday e.g. A newspaper article, leaflet, webpage and summarise it in their own words (verbally and or in writing).
2. Presentation of Ideas and information - layout
Tests students’ ability to....... • Identify the purpose of the text • To identify and analyse techniques the writer has used to achieve their
purpose. • To comment on presentational features such as headlines and pictures
and link them to the purpose of the text. What parents can do to help....... Encourage students to read a non fiction text and discuss the following with
you • What is the purpose of this writing • Who is the audience? • Find five language techniques and explain how they have been used to
achieve the purpose. • Consider how and why the layout supports the writing’s purpose –
specifically headlines, pictures and captions.
3. Presentation of ideas and information – tone and language
Tests students’ ability to..... • Identify the writers’ tone. • Comment on the structure of a text in relation to its
purpose. • Identify and analyse language techniques the writer has
used to achieve their purpose. What you can do to help...... Encourage students to read a non-fiction text every day and
discuss the following with you: • What tone does the writer use? • Why has the writer started and ended the text in this way? • Which language techniques can you spot and how does
each help the purpose of the text (AFOREST, simile, metaphor, exaggeration etc)?
4. Writing
Tests students’ ability to: • Use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. • Structure a piece of writing, including using well connected
paragraphs. • Use ambitious vocabulary • Use language techniques such as similes, metaphors,
rhetorical questions, triples etc. • Write imaginatively. What parents can do to help....... Encourage students to use the questions and timings in the
revision booklet to rehearse writing under timed conditions and to discuss the response afterwards.
English Literature Revision A View From The Bridge – Modern Drama – Monday 20th May Animal Farm & Unseen Poetry – Lit Heritage Prose & Contemporary Poetry – Thurs 23rd May What parents can do to help...... A View From The Bridge/Animal Farm •Test students on revision notes on characters and themes. •Select a page or two at random from the play/novel and ask students to tell you how it fits in with the rest of the play/novel and what is particularly interesting about that extract.
Unseen Poetry •Choose a contemporary poem at random from a website such as www.thepoem.co.uk •Discuss with students the following:
•Overview (what is the poem about?) •The poet’s treatment of the subject (the tone) •The sounds in the poem (alliteration / assonance / onomatopoeia) •The language of the poem (similes, metaphors etc) •The structure of the poem (Verse form / line lengths, caesura, enjambment etc) •Overall impact of the poem on the reader
Mathematics
How to prepare for your GCSE Maths exam.
Linear Maths GCSE Edexcel
1MB01
2 final papers
Each paper counts for 50% of the final mark
One non calculator and one calculator paper
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse10/maths/maths-a/Pages/default.aspx
Modular Maths GCSE Edexcel
2MB01
3 papers
Unit 1 (Calculator) 30%
Unit 2 (Non Calculator) 30%
Unit 3 (Calculator) 40%
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse10/maths/maths-a/Pages/default.aspx
Be Prepared!
Make sure they are fully equipped; scientific calculators are available to buy from the finance office
Make sure they have a protractor, compasses etc.
How do you revise Maths?
By doing it!
Log onto the school homework page then go to http://www.chestertoncc.net/Moodle/course/view.php?id=30#section-
Work through past papers
Work through the revision booklets
Download the revision cards. You could turn them into flashcards on paper or view them in Word.
How do you revise Maths?
Use revision guides to go through tricky topics
Use websites such as bbc bitesize, mymaths
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/
Past paper App For Apple devices
For Android devices
Make your own flashcards with important facts such as the area of a circle or the volume of a pyramid. Keep testing yourself.
How do you revise Maths?
Remember the teachers are all still in school, happy to work with the students. They could use email for simple questions or to arrange suitable times to come in.
Remember to come in for all the revision sessions; it is easy to forget important ideas and skills without regular opportunities to study them.
Good Luck!
Science
P4 Explaining Motion P5 Electric Circuits P6 Radioactive Materials
Revision session : 12th June Exam: 9:00am 13th June
ebook and spec: userid scienceparent password scienceparent
self marking questions userid 0162InitialSurname password year11science
Keywords: energy (work) power velocity momentum force acceleration mass current potential difference resistance
bbc bitesize:
past paper
mark scheme
C4 Chemical Patterns C5 Chemicals of Environment
C6 Chemical Synthesis
Revision session : 10th June Exam: 1pm 10th June
ebook and spec: userid scienceparent password scienceparent
self marking questions
userid 0162InitialSurname password: year11science
Some keywords: periodic table element, compound balanced symbol equation electrolysis atom molecule ion covalent, ionic, metallic bond yield relative atomic mass electron, proton, neutron atmosphere, oxidation, reduction exothermic, endothermic collision theory
bbc bitesize:
past paper
mark scheme
B4 Processes of Life B5 Growth and Development
B6 Brain and Mind
Revision session : 4th June Exam: 1pm 5th June (Double Award Only)
ebook and spec:
userid scienceparent password scienceparent
self marking questions
userid 0162InitialSurname password: year11science
Keywords: photosynthesis respiration reproduction excretion homeostasis sensitivity
osmosis photosynthesis triplet code phototropism conditioning reflexes synapses
bbc bitesize:
past paper
mark scheme
ebook and spec:
userid scienceparent password scienceparent
self marking questions
userid 0162InitialSurname password: year11science
B7 Further biology (Triple Science only) Revision session: 17th June Exam: 9am 18th June C7 Further chemistry (Triple Science only) Revision session: 19th June Exam: 1pm 20th June C7 Further physics (Triple Science only) Revision session: 21st June Exam: 9am 24th June
antagonistic pair joint BMI RICE double circulation tissue fluid capillary bed hypothalamus vasodilation vasoconstriction diabetes insulin linear system closed-loop system organic matter ecosystem services deforestation dioxins bioaccumulation non-biodegradable biomass biodiversity primary forest carbon sink single cell protein genetic modification gel electrophoresis DNA profiling gene probe nanotechnology
activation energy atom economy solvent front renewable resource reflux replicate sample functional group dynamic equilibrium saturated, unsaturated
magnification power eclipse lunar phases sidereal day right ascension celestial sphere eclipse declination retrograde motion virtual real image converging focal length dioptres refraction dispersion spectrometer electromagnetic spectrum parabolic mirror aperture diffraction resolution galaxy parallax parsec luminosity brightness cepheid variable Leavitt Shapley Curtis nebulae supernovae Hubble redshift Big Bang peak frequency Fraunhofer lines absorption spectrum photon energy electron nuclear fusion E=mc2 H-R diagram pressure Kelvin protostar main sequence photosphere redgiant blackhole exoplanet SETI telescopes
Languages Faculty Revision Two summer exams: Listening (20% of the GCSE) Reading (20% of the GCSE)
Vocab on College Website - Testing mon collège my school
animé lively
un bâtiment building
les courts de tennis (tennis courts)
à deux/trois étages two-/three-storey
un(e) élève student
mixte mixed
moderne /vieux modern/old
un(e) professeur teacher
se trouver to be situated
chez nous at our school
il y a there is/there are
nous avons we have
on a we have
http://www.chestertoncc.net/Moodle/course/view.php?id=87
BBC Bitesize Revision
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/
Make the computer available
Make the time
BBC Languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/html/news_views/video_player_a.shtml
Watch together
And again!
Go Back Over Work : Teach Me!
You read about Javier’s family in this blog. Vivo con mis padres y mi hermana. Mi padre es hombre de negocios y mi madre es enfermera en una clínica. Mi madre no trabaja los lunes. Entonces limpia la casa. Somos una familia verde. No tenemos coche y reciclamos todo. 9 (a) What job does Javier’s mum do? .................................................................................................................................... (1 mark)
Go over past papers
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/german/gcse/german-4665/past-papers-and-mark-schemes
Downloading
Timing
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How to support your child in preparing for the exams within
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How to support your child in preparing for the History exam
• Revision materials are on the school website. • Encourage your child to read through the revision booklet. • Use the Ben Walsh e-book. • Download the past papers and complete them. • Make sure they come to the revision sessions.
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How to support your child in preparing for the RE exam
• All students have been provided with the course specific revision guide.
• There are practice questions in this guide and students could be supervised completing these under timed conditions.
• Specialist vocabulary is also listed in this booklet. • Mrs Pointon will mark any past papers that students
complete.
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Key revision resources – 1 The Worldlywise Web
• Written by CCC staff specifically for CCC students
• Focuses on the case studies (real world examples) that we have studied in lessons
• Contains general advice about exams in geography as well as subject content
• www.worldlywise.pbworks.com
• The address is on the sheet you have been given.
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Key revision resources – 2 Questions by email
• Questions by email – just like we did to support students who were resitting modules during the course
• Sent to students and their parents
Ideally, ask your child the question every day and work through the answer with them
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Key revision resources – 3 Questions via Twitter
• The daily questions will also be tweeted
• Follow @ChestertonGeog
(address on the sheet you have been given)
• Advantage: saves you searching through your inbox for the questions!
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Key revision resources – 4 Revision Booklet and Past Papers
• The revision booklet will be issued to students next week and can be downloaded from the Worldlywise Website
• The booklet helps students to review the subject knowledge that is needed for the exam – but they then need to apply it!
• Use the past papers to practice applying subject knowledge – downloadable from the Worldlywise Website
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Unit 3 exam is on 18th June
