1. Understanding your mocks
28/10/19 – 11/11/19

2. What is the point of mocks?
Designed to help you prepare
Gets you use to practicing sitting exams
Get use to the environment
Helps you to identify gaps in advance of your real GCSEs
Gets you into the habit of revising
Let you know what works and what doesn’t
Nothing to worry about!
This is a positive experience!

3. Understanding your Mocks: Process
Designed to give you a realistic experience of your GCSE exams
In the hall and gym
Take place over two weeks 28/10/19 – 11/11/19
2 slots each day
Registration, P1 and P2
P3 and P4
Maximum time on an exam 1:45 minutes
Most subjects have one exam other than Maths, English and Science
You will have your own timetable and seat number

4. On the day of your mocks – slot 1
Slot 1 exams – Reg, P1 and P2
Go to registration as normal
Your tutor will help you to be “exam ready”
Hand in mobile phone, check equipment, discuss any issues
For whole cohort exams your tutor will escort you down from your form room in silence via the science stairs
For none whole cohort exams you will be expected to go down on your own modeling excellent behavior
You will line up in silence on the PE balcony
Enter the exam hall through the bottom entrance in silence
Bags and coats off and left at the back of hall

5. On the day of your mocks- slot 2
Slot 2 exams – after break P3 and P4
Go to P3 as normal
Your teacher will help you to be “exam ready” and take register
For whole cohort exams your teacher will escort you down from your form room in silence via the closest stairs
For none whole cohort exams you will be expected to go down on your own modeling excellent behavior
You will line up in silence on the PE balcony
Enter the exam hall through the bottom entrance in silence
Bags and coats off and left at the back of hall

6. Mobile phone procedure
You will be expected to hand mobile phones in to tutors at the start of each day
You will place them in a plastic wallet and be provided with a raffle ticket
These will be placed in a plastic box which will be collected and stored in the main office throughout the school day
At the end of the school day mobile phones will be available for collections from the heart space where they will be distributed by a member of the admin team

7. During your mocks – Curriculum
You will not be completing new learning in lessons during mocks
You will be given the opportunity to revise and prepare for your mocks by your teachers in lessons
Come prepared to lessons with revision materials
You will not be allowed to walk around requesting revision from staff
If you have interventions on the day of your mock and you are not sitting an exam during this time you need to attend the intervention session

10. Information to support form tutors discussion
The following slides provide some support and guidance related to revision

11. Preparing for your challenge: Make a start

12. Top tips
Quality not quantity - stop kidding yourself, don't waste time on highlighting notes, re-reading, drawing pretty but meaningless pictures 
Dual coding - Use of combination of visuals (meaningful not distracting) and words - effective mindmaps, labelled diagrams/symbols and flow diagrams
Practice makes perfect- Focus on retrieval - self testing, flash cards, quizzing with friends and parents - proven to have the biggest impact

13. Top tips
Deliberate practice- identify and focus on the bit that needs to improve instead of the whole subject or getting a high grade by scoring 70% in as many tests as possible- your teachers are your best support in this - ask them
Mix it up - You should interleave topics as it forces your brain to process and make sense of revision
Spread it out - Consider when your brain works the best and fit in your revision in small manageable chunks

15. How do I revise?