First Year Revision Guide by King Edward VI School

First Year 2022 Revision Guide

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First Year Revision Guide 2022

The Golden Rules •

Start Revision Early

We don’t mean before sunrise, we mean that you need to start about 3-4 weeks ahead of the examinations. This avoids MASSED LEARNING (known to most of us as cramming).

Revise a topic for a maximum of 45 minutes (more than this and the ability of the brain to process information is significantly reduced).

Have lots of breaks.

Test yourself or get someone to test you and note your score/recall capability and what tripped you up.

Consider revising the same topic for 20-30 minutes the day after to check you remember it.

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Ensure a Social Media/Gadget Shut Down

This will be tough for some of you but could be the make or break of your success in these examinations. 1.

Switch off your mobile phone. Incoming calls, messages and social media notifications are just too tempting. Turn off your computer and iPad too, unless you are visiting revision websites that have been recommended by your teachers or using resources you have made in class on your iPad. Try to keep all devices off for the whole time you are working, then when you have a break you can turn them on again.

First Year Revision Guide 2022

The Golden Rules •

Get help from friends and family

It’s often very useful and reassuring to get your parents, brothers and sisters or friends (study buddies) to be a part of your revision. Ideas for involving others: 1.

Get someone to test you on the topic you’ve just covered. They could ask you the questions you’ve been preparing for or listen while you try and remember the key terms. Be the lecturer. Give a short lecture style presentation to someone. Do a revision session with a study buddy. It can be really motivating to go through your revision journey with another student who is determined to make the most of their revision time like you. You can take notes together, complete past papers, test each other on key terms and play the revision games later in this booklet.

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Get organised

The best way to start revision is to spend your first session for each subject getting organised. The next page has some tips to help with everything you need to be an effective and organised learner.

First Year Revision Guide 2022

How to be an effective learner 1. Make sure you have a revision list for each subject; your teacher may give you this or you may create one yourself. 2. Make sure that you have all the revision notes, guides, text books and website links you’ll need for each subject. 3. Highlight the topics in each subject that you are less confident in. 4. Sort out your folders, pens, highlighters and plastic wallets and other revision stationery. 5. Organise your revision space. You can’t work effectively in clutter and mess. Spend 5 or 10 minutes each day making sure things are filed and neat in the right places, this will help you find things again when you next come to revise. 6. Stick your revision timetable in a prominent place on or near your revision space. On the next few pages you’ll find some tools that will really help you to organise and prepare your revision.

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Conduct for Internal Examinations These are our School rules for taking Examinations, don’t worry you will soon get used to them.

All School Rules, including Dress Regulations, are to be strictly obeyed during the examination period. Acquaint yourself with the dates, times and places of your examinations as shown on the timetable. Arrive at your examination room ten minutes before your examination is due to begin. Do not be late! You must use a black pen/ink for all of your written answers.

Revision notes, private reading, books and any other paperwork are not allowed in the examination room unless authorised. All books and papers must be moved well away from the examination desks before the examination begins. Mobile phones are NOT allowed in the examination room. Please leave your phone in your locker. Seating for all examinations will be in alphabetical order. Check beforehand if you are allowed to use calculators in your examinations. You must stay in the examination room until the end of the time allowed for your paper. You will not be allowed to leave the examination room early. Observe the SILENCE signs throughout the School at all times. 1st Year Lunches will be taken at the 1.10 pm sitting. Queue in the Crush Hall at 1.10pm. All incidents of malpractice will be reported to the HOY.

First Year Revision Guide 2022 Preparing for examinations - In School Subject

Maths

Junior Science

Language

Geography

History

Latin

English

Topics to be covered in the examination.

What will the structure of the examination paper be like?

Revision that will be covered in lesson time

First Year Revision Guide 2022 Preparing for examinations - At Home about times when you will not be able to revise and think about what subjects you might need to allow more time for than others. Ask: •

Do you have any commitments in the week before the examinations?

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Do you have any regular commitments in the evenings or at weekends (e.g. music lessons, sports etc.)?

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Do you find any subject difficult, that you will have to spend more time on than others?

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Revision Strategies Strategy One – Reading and note making 1. Use highlighters to emphasise key points. 2. Use different coloured pens to make learning more memorable. 3. Use different coloured sheets for each subject. This helps for organisation. 4. Use plastic wallets to keep your sheets together and organised Strategy Two – Condense your notes onto REVISION FLASH CARDS When you transfer more detailed revision notes to flash cards you are aiming to try and recall all of the knowledge you need for answering examination questions from abbreviated notes such as key terms, dates questions or equations. Flash cards are good for testing yourself on key terms or processes too. You can put the answers or diagrams on the back so that you can check you are on track. Strategy Three – Add some ART to make things vivid Adding your own pictures to some of your notes can be really helpful for knowledge recall. We are not talking awesome art, stick men will do! An image is often easier to remember than text.

First Year Revision Guide 2022

Revision Strategies Strategy Four: Voice Recordings Can Help For some making a voice recording of your revision notes can really help to embed the knowledge in your long-term memory. This method saves you having to read the information again and again and instead you hear it. You can use your iPad or your phone. You can then plug in your earphones and listen to your revision at any suitable time. Strategy Five – The Revision Dice Game This one is for the final stages of your revision journey. When you’ve made revision sheets and flash cards, try something different and play a game. Rules First choose which subject and topic you are playing with… Then if you throw a; 1. Write down 5 key terms associated with the topic. 2. Draw a picture of a key process, theory or event to do with topic and label it accordingly. 3. Write a description or definition of the topic or a key term within it. 4. Invent an appropriate question about the topic which may be asked in the examination, write it down and answer it. 5. Do 2 minutes of flash card revision on the area that you find most difficult to remember. 6. Give a 2 minute mini-lecture on a key aspect of the topic.

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Revision Strategies Making a revision timetable can be useful to plan your time. Use the template later in this booklet or use your own if you prefer.

Remember: 1. It is important that you have regular breaks in your revision. 2. REWARD YOURSELF. Make sure you have lots of things to look forward to during your revision programme. 3. Be Realistic – it is unlikely that you will be able to revise for long periods of time. Set yourself realistic targets.

4. You will concentrate better and learn more effectively if you are in a quiet comfortable environment. Think about where you are going to revise. 5. Rotate your sessions between your ‘best’ subjects and your least favourite subjects. 6. In each subject, make a list of those topics you don’t know quite so well and revise those first.

The Art of Mind Mapping

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Before bedtime I like to read whilst my Mum and sister watch television. I have read my first novel, the first Harry Potter book. My friends have made the different wizards like Snape, Dumbledore and Hagrid but I just like Harry. Four of us went to the cinema to watch it and we loved it but the book is a bit better. I would have preferred to have started at Hogwarts this September as a trainee wizard rather than go back to East Lincs Junior as a Year 3.

I spent the rest of my time in the holidays playing on my PlayStation every morning. The rest of my family, namely my Mum, dog and sister, like to sleep in but I always wake up when the sun comes out and the birds start singing (people call it singing, but I really don’t think they would get past the first round of X-Factor unless Simon turns them into a group). In the afternoons I would also go swimming. Mum signed me up to a summer school for when she was at work and this was the option I chose. I can now swim three lengths and I have a certificate to prove it.

My best week of the holidays was visiting London to see my Grandpa Henry and Grandma Betty. This was the first week of the holidays and I am not sure that was a good thing for a tired pupil as I had to spend all day playing football with my five cousins. We also played F1 racing with remote control cars and because I loved this so much, my Grandma bought me two to bring home. I have not raced them yet but the dog does like to chase them.

We had a grand total of forty two days off for our summer holidays. Unfortunately only one of these could be my birthday. Mum says I can only have one per year. Luckily for me my Mum and Dad have split up and my Dad has moved back to London and this means my Dad, according to my Mum, ”overcompensates.” He took me to Blackpool for the day as a treat for my birthday. We visited Blackpool Sealife Centre to see the great white sharks but we ended up at Northside Fun Park after I advised Dad, “Once you’ve seen one fish, you’ve seen them all.” In between the rides I asked Dad if we could try the food at each stall. We had pizza and ice cream. Some of it came back up on the Grand Waltzer which luckily made room in my stomach for donuts and sweets.

When I left school in July I was just six years old but since then I have reached the grand old age of seven years old. In other words it was my birthday. For my birthday I have invited ten of my best friends from school, all boys might I add, to come with me to the bowling alley at Fuston Green. I tried to hint to my friends that as my Grandad Colin was paying for all of this, he would be pleased at news of me winning something sporty for once. They took no notice and I came eighth. I suppose two of them maybe did take notice? After bowling, we had a burgers and chips at the restaurant next door. We were given helium balloons which we used to turn our voices squeaky!

During the past six weeks I have been off school because it is the summer holidays. I have checked the weather report most days as I detest getting wet in the rain. At times the symbols on the map have been clouds and a sun but in Louth, where I live, we have had clear blue skies all of the time. So either the weatherman is not doing his job properly or our vicar is doing his job properly by sending up prayers for sunshine. Not that I believe God answers such trivial prayers.

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Or 2 minutes looking!

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6 Rules of mind mapping

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The Art of Mind Mapping

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First Year Revision Guide 2022 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

May 9th

May 10th

May 11th

May 12th

May 13th

Group Base Assembly

Group Base

Evening

Saturday May 14th

Sunday May 15th

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

First Year Revision Guide 2022 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

May 16th

May 17th

May 18th

May 19th

May 20th

Group Base Assembly

Group Base

Evening

Saturday May 21st

Sunday May 22nd

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

First Year Revision Guide 2022 Monday May 23rd

Tuesday May 24th

Group Base

Evening

All exams are over

Relax.

FIRST YEAR

INTERNAL EXAMINATIONS TIMETABLE - Summer 2022

1st (A)

Thu

19 May

(A)

Fri

20 May

(B)

Mon

23 May

Subject

Timetabled lesson

Normal timetabled classroom

Timetabled lesson

Normal timetabled classroom

Revision

1/1

MU3

1/2

MU2

1/3

1/4

1/5

L11

1/6

MF Language

1/1

H14

1/2

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/6

Revision Session

1/1

1/2

1/3

1/4

1/5

H15

1/6

Geography

1/1

1/2

1/3

1/4 MU3

1/5

1/6

Revision Session

1/1

1/2

1/3

1/4

1/5

CL3

1/6

L10

History

1/1

1/2

L10

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/6

Revision Session

1/1

L10

1/2

1/3

H15

1/4

1/5

MU2

1/6

Mathematics I

1/1

L10

1/2

1/3

H15

1/4

1/5 MU2

1/6

Revision Session

1/1

CL2

1/2

1/3

CL3

1/4

1/5

1/6

Latin

1/1

1/2

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/6 MU2

Revision Session

1/1

1/2

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/6

English

Comprehension & Directed Writing

1/1

1/2

1/3

CL1

1/4

1/5

1/6

Revision Session

1/1

1/2

1/3

1/4

IT1

1/5

1/6

Junior Science

1/1

1/2 MU3

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/6

L12

24 May

Room

P5 (B)Tue

Form/Set

FR SP GE : Reading & Writing

GAMES

Revision Session

1/1

1/2

1/3

1/4

H13

1/5

Religious Studies

1/1

L11

1/2

1/3

CL3

1/4

1/5

1/6

Revision Session

1/1

CL1

1/2

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/6

MU3

Design & Technology

1/1

1/2

L10

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/6

Revision Session

1/1

1/2

1/3

1/4

CL3

1/5

1/6

Mathematics II

1/1

1/2

CL2

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/6

CL3

Please Note: • • • • • •

Wait quietly outside the examination room until instructed to enter the room and take your place. Mobile Phones are NOT allowed in Examination Rooms. Leave your phone in your locker before each exam. All books, revision notes and papers must be moved well away from your desk before the examination begins. Use black ink for all written answers. All incidents of malpractice or cheating, whether intended or not, will be reported to your the Head of Year. If you qualify for Special Examination Arrangements, you will be notified by separate correspondence.

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First Year 2022 Good Luck For more information, ideas and guidance please visit the study skills page of the school website.