Fourth Form End of Year Exams, Summer 2017
Revision Topics by Subject with Links to Firefly Resources
Art
No end of year exam
Biology
Revision links to the following exam topics:
• Organisms in the Environment • Co-ordination and Response • Cell Structure and Movement into and out of cells • Gas Exchange • Respiration • Classification • Biological Molecules and Diet • Digestion • Enzymes • Photosynthesis
• Definitions • Fourth Form Scheme of Work
Boys have also been directly emailed with information by Mr Beale.
Chemistry
Revision links to:
• Matters and Atoms • Atomic Structure • Acids and Bases • Oxygen and Hydrogen • Periodic Table • Bonding • Chemical Analysis • Reactivity Series • Mole Calculations • Organic Chemistry 1 - Alkanes and Alkenes • Organic Chemistry 2 – Alcohols • Rates • Energy Changes • Equilibrium • Electrochemistry
DT
• Computer-Aided-Design • Visual Communication • Workshop Skills
Drama
Assessment via Practical Performance in lessons
English
Revision links to:
• Section A: Studied Literature o One analytical essay about a text you have studied. o Closed text exam o Summer 2017 texts are as follows:
Miss Betterton's Classes: Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Mrs Di Niro's Class: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Mr Grimshaw's Class: Shane by Jack Schafer Mr Hopton's Class: Poetry of Place Mrs Smith's Class: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Miss Van Heerden's Class: Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff
• Section B: Writing o Write a story or atmospheric description based upon a given title.
French
Summary link to:
• Ask and give opinion about the internet/someone, and justify it • Describe a visit to a friend • Name parts of the body • Talk about your sporting routine/healthy habits • Talk about jobs and qualities needed for specific jobs • Talk about what I used to do • Talk about future plans • Talk about holiday: where you went, what you did • Include opinions • Ideal holiday • Grammar
o Present tense o Direct object pronouns o Adjective agreements o Near future o Perfect tense
o Il faut + infinitive o Irregular verbs o Modal verbs o Reflexive verbs
Geography
Overall summary with links to:
• Hostile Environments o Hot Deserts o Tropical Rainforests o Cold Environments
• UK Physical Landscapes and Rivers
German
Revision links to:
• Personal description (looks, personality), family relationships, chores • daily routine, describing past activities, times and dates, celebrations & festivals, making
excuses • media (TV, music, cinema, literature), Sports and hobbies, weather, talking about future
plans • Grammar (for all of the units):
o tenses: present tense (including strong and irregular verbs as covered), perfect tense, future tense, modal verbs. Some verbs in the imperfect would be good (war, hatte, gab)
o structures: inversion, use of weil, linking sentences together o cases: nominative and accusative
History
Revision links to:
• US leisure boom of the 1920s: o jazz, cinema, radio, sport.
• Changes for women in the 1920s (optional question)
Latin
Revision links to:
• For GCSE Latinists: o Short Translation o Comprehension o Sentences
• For non-GCSE Latinists o Translation o Comprehension o Ancient History questions
Maths
Links and Revision materials to:
• Multiples, factors, primes, roots, square numbers • Mean, mode, median, range • Simplifying algebraic expressions including algebraic fractions • Decimals – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, money problems • Probability, probability spaces, and tree diagrams • Angle facts including triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons • Scatter graphs and correlation including lines of best fit • Standard form including calculations • Substitution into a formula • Change the subject of a formula • Exact Trigonometric Values • Simultaneous equations • Conversions between units • Solving linear equations • Place value • Fractions and Mixed Numbers – equivalent, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division,
fraction of a quantity • Equations of straight lines – plotting, gradient and y intercept, parallel lines • Product of prime Factors, LCM, HCF using Venn Diagram method • Area and perimeter • Indices • Inequalities – solving and number lines • Pythagoras • Trigonometry • Percentages, reverse percentages, compound depreciation • Factorising – including quadratic equations
Music
Revision links to:
• Music of the Baroque period • Music of the Classical period • Folk/fusion (Skye Waulking Song and Indian music) • Rock and Pop music • 20th Century music (Shostakovich 5th Symphony)
Physics
Revision links to:
• Experimental Physics • Energy • Forces
RE
Revision links to:
• Christian Theology • Ethics
o Sports Ethics o Business Ethics
• Philosophy of Religion
Spanish
Revision links to:
• Describing yourself and others • Food and drink • Clothes • Holidays • Going out • School and identity • Where you’re from • School • Where you live • Going places
• Grammar:
o Present o Preterite o Imperfect o Future o Radical changers and reflexives o Key verbs, including irregulars o Adjectival agreement o Masculine and feminine nouns o Reflexive
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