Parents revision workshop How to help in your role as parents (5 mins) A test (5 mins) Some general advice about preparing for exams (15 minutes) Some practical advice about how to revise (10 minutes) Opportunity for questions

But first some dates: Year 10 Exams - Dates 19th May BTEC Music 25th May Core Science P1 10th June Core Science P2 6th to 24th June Internal exams

Activity

General advice for students

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Understanding Condensing Memorising Recalling and practising When we talk about REVISION we actually mean one or more of the following…. Understanding Condensing Memorising Recalling and practising

Understand it Do students know what they don’t know?

Condense it

Condense it

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Memorise it- what doesn’t work Highlighting texts Re-reading Summarising text The reason these are so ineffective, is that they require very little cognitive work…and it’s cognitive work i.e. thinking about things, that makes us remember things.  It’s easy to see why are they are popular with students though.  They are very low demand, make the students feel as if they are ‘doing revision’ and for highlighting and summarising, there is a product for their efforts. . Students think they are revising but these means are not effective. Highlighting – ends up with a ‘painted page’ Re reading – unless it is transferred into a different format, not effective. Summarising – needs to be reduced and then expanded, with the detail reinserted.

Memorise it – what does work A. Practice Testing Flashcards, re-drawing mindmaps from memory, quizzes, past papers. B. Space it out C. Keep asking why One of the best things that students can do (either to themselves or with a friend) to support their revision is to ask why an idea or concept is true – and then answer that why question. D. Self Explanation Rather than looking at different topics from a subject in isolation, students should try to think about how this new information is related to what they know already.

You have REAL Science GCSE exams on Wed 25th May and Fri 10th June (B1, C1, P1)+(B2, C2, P2)+Coursework =1 GCSE Students will get their Core Science GCSE result when they return to school in September This is NOT a practice run This is a REAL GCSE!! 35% 40% 25%

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Questions?