Trial Exams

How are trial exams like sheepdog trials?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sO1wdBhMY

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

The Process

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:1. Take on challenges wholeheartedly2. Learn from setbacks and start again3. Hear advice and act on it

• 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 ...

Visualising the next 4 months

Half Time - Newcastle 0 Arsenal 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOlY_JhJhBM

• 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 ........

Your Route to Success

RevisionBlocks of Time

9 days over half-termMorning

Afternoon (1 til 5)

Evening

RevisionBlocks of Time

9 days over half-termMorning

Afternoon (1 til 5)

Evening

1 hour Maths / English / Science2 hour Maths / English / Science 3 hour Option Subjects4 hour Option Subjects

RevisionBlocks of Time

9 days over half-term x 4 hours = 36 hoursMorning

Afternoon (1 til 5)

Evening

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 do do!

• 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 do do ing…

CHANGE

• As done at St James’s Park –

• Turn text into a diagram

• Turn text into a table

• Make a model etc etc

• 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.

SOLID

LIQUID

GAS

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

• 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.

Your Future Starts Now!

• 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

Trial Exams – Key Moments

• 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

Take Control

Goal 5 Achieving 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

Let’s go one better than Newcastle!