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Revision and Examination Techniques

•Learning Environment•Learning Styles•Revision techniques•Examination Techniques•General advice

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The truth about exams• Exams are not designed to catch you out.• They provide an opportunity for you to demonstrate your abilities.• Examiners like giving marks to people who do what is asked of them.• Exams can be completed in the allotted time.• Everyone’s memory is sufficient.•You can learn how to do well in exams

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Learning environment• Minimise distractions by trying to keep an

area for learning that is – Organised– Not cluttered– Equipped with everything you need– Peaceful– Free from interruptions (mobiles, TV etc)

• Alternatives– With a friend– At school

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Before you start

• Have you got all your notes?• Do you know the topics you need to

revise?• Have you decided how you are going

to revise?• Tell family that you do not want to be

interrupted because you have planned to revise

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Do you know the topics you are going to revise?

• Revision checklists• Textbook• Exam board details• Ask your teacher• Revision websites • Revision plan or timetable

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How do you prefer to learn?Different learning styles e.g.

– Visual

– Auditory

– Kinaesthetic

How are you going to revise?

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Visual Learners• Prefer to see how to do things• 29% of us prefer to learn by storing images in our brains.

Possible revision techniques:• use pictures, mind maps, computers, diagrams, flowcharts,

key words, posters, timelines• Videos• Mind maps.• use colour and highlighters to help the brain remember.• write information in bullet points or as key words on “post-

its” – (they come in different colours).• Careful layout of notes

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Auditory Learners• Learn by listening and speaking• 34% of us prefer to learn by storing sounds in our

brains.

Possible revision techniques• Talk over the work with someone else• Record notes (use your phone) and play them

back• Listen to music while revising – no words• Repeat their work out loud in funny voices.• Make up rhymes or raps about work.• Get someone to ask you questions about the work.

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Kinaesthetic Learners• Learn by doing• 37% of us prefer to learn by movement or touch.

Possible revision techniques• Key word cards• put their notes on cards or “post-its” and sequence them

(perhaps rank the cards in order of importance or make into sentences).

• walk between notes or “post-its” that are on the floor or on the walls.

• walk around while reading.• stand up – stretch or exercise – at least every 20 minutes.• draw pictures, mind maps – run a finger between the words

on the map, say each one out loud.• squeeze a sponge or stress release ball while working.

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How are you going to revise?

Suggested strategies– Mindmaps– Mnemonics– Journey technique– Rhymes/ songs– Flow diagrams– Cue cards– Sound recordings– RepetitionAll of them!

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Mindmaps

• Information can be seen quickly and act as a visual aid

• title in centre, branches for separate points

• Put around the house for regular revision

• Different coloured paper for different topics – ask your teacher

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What Was What Was CollectivisationCollectivisation

??

ReasonsReasonsResultsResults

Key FeaturesKey Features

Increase grain productionIncrease grain production

Feed industrial Feed industrial workersworkers

Sell grain abroad= buy Sell grain abroad= buy industrial machineryindustrial machinery

Modernise farming Modernise farming methodsmethods

Eliminate kulaks= Eliminate kulaks= ‘Real’ communism‘Real’ communism

1941=98% farmland 1941=98% farmland collectivisedcollectivised

Grain exports Grain exports increasedincreased

1932-33=famine- 6-10 1932-33=famine- 6-10 million died!million died!

When?When? Where?Where?What?What?

Who?Who?How?How?

19271927

NEP had not NEP had not workedworked

Russian Russian farmlandfarmland

Kolkhoz=50-100 Kolkhoz=50-100 farms grouped farms grouped togethertogether

Kulaks protested- forced to Kulaks protested- forced to hand over foodhand over food

25,000 workers 25,000 workers sent to the sent to the countrysidecountryside

Use farming Use farming machinerymachinery Modern facilities- Modern facilities-

hospitalshospitals

Join kulaks Join kulaks and batraks and batraks togethertogether

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Mnemonics

• Encoding information in a memorable phrase

• Using vivid, positive, humorous phrases

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain

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Journey technique

• Use an established journey• Associate landmarks on the journey

with the items to remember • E.g. journey to school

• Could be useful for remember items in an order

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Rhymes or songs• Helps to remember knowledge in

sequence• Learn by repetition

E.g.

In 1954 the Supreme Court made a clear decisionMiss Brown could go to a white school as her father was wishingIn 1955 a 12 month bus boycott led by Luther KingEnded bus segregation with the Supreme Court agreeingIn 1957 the president stepped in at Little RockAnd mobs, Governor Faubus and segregated education he did stopThe peaceful protests continued into the 1960sAnd resulted in desegregated facilities

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Flow diagrams

• Use colour• Encourages you to summarise notes

to put in diagram

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Cue cards

• Cards with key word or question on one side and answer/ definition/ formula/ short list on reverse

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Sound recordings

• Use revision notes or booklets to make recording

• Listen whilst travelling• Make mindmaps/ diagrams while

listening

Or• Read revision notes out loud

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Repetition

• Regular repetition of knowledge will strengthen it

• Will enable you to prioritise what you need to learn again

• E.g. review notes before sleeping

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General guidance

• You can’t rewrite all of the notes from your 2 year courses – summaries needed

• Use a variety of revision techniques – your memory will be more efficient

• Highlight key parts or ones that are more difficult to remember

• Keep persevering with the more difficult work

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General guidance

• Don’t spend too long revising. There is the law of diminishing returns. If you just sit down to revise, without a definite finishing time, then your learning efficiency falls lower and lower,like this:

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General guidance

• If you decide at the beginning how long you will work for, with a clock,then, as your brain knows the end is coming,the graph rises towards the end.

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• If you break up a 2-hour session into 4 shorter sessions, each of about 25-minutes, with a short planned break between them, then it is even better.

• Compare the next 2 graphs:

How can you improve this even more?

One solid session

4 shorter sessionsThe yellow area shows the improvement.

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How often should you revise?Look at the graph below.

It shows how much your brain can recall later.It rises for about 10 minutes …and then falls.

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if you quickly re-revise after 10 minutes,

then it falls more slowly! This is good.

Analyse the new graph:

However,

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if you quickly re-revise again, after 1 day,

then it falls even more slowly! Good !

Analyse the new graph:

Even better,

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if you quickly re-revise again, after 1 week,

then it falls even more slowly! Great!

Analyse the new graph:

And even better still,

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10 minutes

1 day

1 week

…and then 1 month.

So the best intervals for ‘topping-up’, by reviewing or briefly re-revising are:

• Revise – Make notes in your preferred learning style

• Repeat – Go through everything again, concentrating on what you still don’t understand

• Review – Every week, spend some time going through everything you’ve done in the past week

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Practice questions• For helping with timing

• Use past papers questions to test your understanding.

• These are often found at the exam board website, together with the mark scheme, e.g. www.aqa.org.uk

• Questions are often found in revision guides, but be careful they match the exam board and specification you do.

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Google is your revision buddy

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Website support

• Mathsgcse4me• Corbettmaths• Keshgcse maths.

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Revision means looking at something again; it does not mean looking at a new topic for the first time just before an exam.

Revision means you’ve already been to lessons, read the books, done the homework and now you’re looking at it again.

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Dos- before the exam

• Go to bed reasonably early• Make sure you know where your

exam is• Arrive 10 minutes or so before exam• Don’t eat too much before exam• Make sure your pen etc is working• Bring a spare pen

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What to take to the exam

•Pen•Pencil•Rubber•Sharpener•Ruler•Calculator

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What not to take to the exam

•Mobile phone•Ipod/MP3 player etc•Food

You can fail this exam and all your others if you are

found with a mobile phone in

the exam, even if it is switched off or in your bag.

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STYLE OF QUESTIONS

A variety of question styles will be used such as:– Multiple Choice– Tick Box– "Choose from a list"– "Short answer"– Those requiring description, explanation or

discussion– Longer open ended questions– QWC

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COMMAND WORDS• Command words are used to instruct you on

the type of answer expected from a question.

• They are not used to trip you up but are designed to get the correct answer, therefore you need to understand what is required from different command words.

• A variety of command words may be used.

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COMMAND WORDS

• Examples include:– State/Give– Outline– Describe– List– Explain

• The next slide explains these words

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EXAM COMMAND WORDSMake sure you understand what the question is asking you to do. It may be useful to underline the command word on the exam paper just so you’re clear what they are asking.

Command wordAccount for Explain why something is the way it is.Analyse Explain your view of why the main points of an idea, text or process are important. Do not just describe.Calculate Show the method and obtain a numerical answer.Compare Write about the differences and similarities.Conclude Make a decision after thinking something through.Contrast Show the differences between two things.Criticise Analyses and make a judgement or give an opinion. Do not just be negative, give a considered view.Define Give a brief explanation of what something means.Describe Say what something or someone is like or give an account of events.Discuss Explain the advantages and disadvantages of something, and give your opinion.Evaluate Make a judgement about the quality of something, taking the evidence into account.Explain Give reason WHY something is as it is or HOW it operates.Give reasons for Explain using words like because to make clear WHY things happen.Identify Point out the required features or reasons.Interpret Explain what you understand to be the meaning, or what someone else intended the meaning to be.Justify Give good reasons for.Summarise Give the main points of an idea or an argument.

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Tips for Answering Questions

1. Read the question twice.

READ it,READ it again!

Q1. Give two ways customers could find out more about the activities shown in figure 1 (2 marks) .

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Tips for Answering Questions

2. Underline the command words and key words in the question before you start.

Q2. Describe the methods that were used to carry out an investigation of a leisure area

Q2. Describe the methods that were used to carry out an investigation of a leisure area

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Tips for Answering Questions

3. Look at the number of marks available and think if it is possibly a mark per point or level answer.

Q3. What is meant by the tern in-bound tourist (2 marks)

Q3. Using figure 4, explain the factors which a family would need to consider when planning their route by car from Belgium to the lake district (6 marks)

This is worth 2 marks and so the examiner will be looking for a short straight forward answer. You will need to say two things.

This is worth 6 marks and so you will be expected to give a longer answer and it will be marked using levels. You are always aiming for the highest level and so should give the differences, explain them and give examples.

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Tips for Answering Questions4. Use the space given as a guide for how much to write.

Q4. What is a heritage coast (3 marks)

A place by the sea ______ ____________________________________________________________________________________________

This answer is clearly too short, lots of lines have been left empty.

Heritage coasts cover most undeveloped parts of the UK coastline. It is a national project which aims to protect unspoilt parts of the coastline from tourism. The Pembrokeshire coast is an example

This answer uses all the space and tries to say at least 3 things about the place for the 3 marks available.

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Tips for Answering Questions5. For longer questions take time to think and plan your answers (spider diagrams)

Q5. Chose one tourist town and describe a suggested programme for visitors to have an interesting day

London

Museumse.g Science

museum, British museum

ShoppingOxford street, covent garden

Transportuse the underground, or ferry in docklands on

Thames, or do a bus tour

FoodGo to the river and have

food. Or take a picnic into Regents park

Visit historic sitesTower of London,

Buckingham palace

Words in bold are the plan you would

write!

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Tips for Answering QuestionsAttempt every question.

If you are stuck on a question leave it and come back to it later.

Make a guess if all else fails (never leave blanks, you can’t lose marks for wrong answers but a guess may gain you some marks).

Lucky guess!

If you can’t remember all the details,

write as many as you can

and guess the rest.

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Tips for Answering Questions

Do not rush. People always finish early. It is better to plan and answer properly than make silly mistakes and then sit waiting for the end.

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Good body = Good mind

• Eat healthy food

• Drink plenty (water!!)

• Get lots of rest

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Fun

• It’s vital when you are revising that you don’t get overworked, as this will lead to stress

• Have a good balance between socialising, relaxing and working

• Plan your revision sessions, and down time

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Revising for Mocks will support revision in summer

Good Luck!Exams start Monday 15th December