1. Lacon Childe School Year11 GCSE Examinations 2017
How YOU can succeed!
“Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you’re probably right”
Henry Ford

2. Key Stage 4 Controlled Assessments Exams Results;
MFL (speaking and writing), Science CAU, Geography, History
Exams
Results;
Summer results into school on Wednesday 23rd August, out to pupils on Thursday 24th August

3. A helping hand – When the drugs won’t work The Verve
Gingko Biloba
short term memory/attentiveness
Omega 3 (cod liver oil)
long term recall
Echinacea
improves the immune system
Water
take water into your exams / hydration all cells 70%

4. Common myths
Don’t think that by sleeping with your books under your pillow you will miraculously learn the contents.
Don’t rely on teddy bears and other ‘lucky mascots’…..they know nothing!

5. Loci/Roman Room method for memory
Activity 1
Loci/Roman Room method for memory

6. Remember

7. 70% forgotten in 24 hours unless deliberate attempt to consolidate
Forgetting *
70% forgotten in
24 hours unless
deliberate attempt
to consolidate

8. Awareness

9. Excuses, excuses, excuses
“The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.”  ~Author Unknown

10. PREPARATION :- “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail”
Create a revision area.
Use wall space in revision area to put up notes.
Have all necessary equipment available, including books, revision guides.
Create a revision area where they will not be disturbed, used only for revising
Must be able to leave work there without it being disturbed
Need good lighting
Not too hot – leads to tiredness

11. PLAN :- “I have a cunning plan.” Baldrick
PLAN your revision.
Copy of GCSE revision plan 2017.xlsx
Use a monthly, weekly planner.
Put in the dates of the exam.
Work backwards from these dates, count the days in between and divide by the number of subjects.
Plan to do between 1 and 2 hours per night.
Split the time into 2/3/4 chunks.

12. CHUNKING REVISION:- Revise one subject area for 25-30 mins.
Have a short break, do something different.
Revise another area of the same subject
Revisit notes from a previous revision session of a completely different subject for 15 mins

13. Hedwig Von Restorff Grass Cut Jump Run Witch Fly Read Build Sky Lay
DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS
Read
Build
Sky
Lay
Blow
Grow

14. Von Restorff Effect Why chunk revision? Primacy – Recency Memorable
Repetition
Motivation

15. REVISION :- “It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it
REVISION :- “It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it.”Bananarama & The Fun Boy Three
Record ideas on tape
Say key ideas out loud
Get someone to test you, better still revise against a class mate
Exchange ideas with a friend/family
Give a presentation over breakfast
Play background music
Quizzes
Mind Map
Make a poster
Make a chart
Form revision groups
Make a diagram
Make a cartoon
Key notes/Cue cards
Surf revision site on the Internet
All of these methods are very visual

16. Re-Decorate Use post it notes around the house. Top of the stairs.
Toilet door.
Bedroom walls.

17. Transform not Transfer
Key to revision
Transform not Transfer

18. The movement of blood around the body.
How Blood Flows through the Human Heart
5 of 8 in Series: The Essentials of Biological Processes
Human hearts, as well as the hearts and circulatory systems of some other mammals, are complex. They need to have a higher blood pressure to get the blood circulated throughout their entire bodies.Blood pressure is a force that sends the blood through the circulatory system.
The structures of the human heart
The human heart has four chambers: two ventricles, each of which is a muscular chamber that squeezes blood out of the heart and into the blood vessels, and two atria, each of which is a muscular chamber that drains and then squeezes blood into the ventricles. The two atria reside at the top of the heart; the two ventricles are at the bottom. And, the heart is divided into left and right halves, so there is a left atrium and left ventricle, as well as a right atrium and right ventricle.
The reason that the heart is divided into halves is because of the two-circuit circulatory system. The right side of the heart can pump blood to the lungs, while the left side of the heart pumps blood to the rest of the body. Blood goes in both directions on each and every pump.

19. NO!

20. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.”  ~Bob Moawad

21. “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ”
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” Chinese proverb

22. Remember