1. Use of Past Exam Papers for Revision

2. Why use Past Exam Papers as basis for revision
Reading through notes or revision guides is NOT effective revision.
It is not until you try to DO the questions that you realise what you have and haven’t understood.

3. Value of using Past Exam Papers as basis for revision
Practise
Recognising the ‘topic’ being tested
Looking at the number of marks allocated and using this to know what depth of answer is needed / how many steps in the calculation
What sort of answer is expected
Understanding KEY words e.g. discuss, compare and contrast, solve, simplify, evaluate, calculate, describe…
Generating similar questions of your own

4. Use Past Exam Papers as basis for revision at home
Do what you can with out looking things up
Mark / hand in if appropriate
Stick with the same paper and have a go at what you couldn’t do, or got wrong.
Look things up using
Exercise book
Text book
Internet
Ask a friend
Ask the teacher
Mark it again
Later come back to the same paper – can you now do those questions you had to get help with?

5. Starting point Past exam paper Mark it
notes
Revision guides
Past exam paper
internet
Mymaths
Mark it

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