Revision Guide
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Third Year
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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). 1. Revise a topic for a maximum of 45 minutes (more than this and the ability of the brain to process information is significantly reduced). 2. Have lots of breaks. 3. Test yourself or get someone to test you and note your score/recall capability and what tripped you up. 4. Consider revising the same topic for 20-30 minutes the day after to check you remember it.
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. 2. 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. 3. 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.
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. 2. Be the lecturer. Give a short lecture style presentation to someone. 3. 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.
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.
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.
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.
All incidents of malpractice will be reported to the HOY.
Preparing for examinations -In School Subject
English
Maths
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Geography
History
RS
Latin
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
French
Spanish
German
Italian
Classical Civilisation
Art
D&T
Music
Computing
Drama
Preparing for examinations –At Home To help you to plan your revision sensibly it is important that you find out 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?
• Do you have any regular commitments in the evenings or at weekends (e.g. music lessons, sports etc.)?
Do you find any subject difficult, that you will have to spend more time on than others?
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.
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.
Revision Timetables 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.
Mon 14 May
Tues 15 May
Weds 16 May
Thurs 17 May
Fri 18 May
Assembly
Group Base No Assembly
Group Base
Group Base No Assembly 1st and 2nd year examinations begin
Group Base
Evening
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Sun 20 May
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Mon 21 May
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Fri 25 May
Group Base No Assembly
Group Base No Assembly 1st and 2nd year examinations end
Group Base
Group Base Assembly
Group Base
Evening
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Evening
Sat 26 May
Sun 27 May
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Mon 28 May (Half-Term)
Tues 29 May (Half-Term)
Wed 30 May (Half-Term)
Thurs 31 May (Half-Term)
Fri 1 June (Half-Term)
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Sat 2 June
Sun 3 June
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Mon 4 June
Tues 5 June
Wed 6 June
Thurs 7 June
Fri 8 June
Group base No Assembly
Group base No Assembly
Group base Examinations begin
Group base No Assembly
Group base
Evening
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Sat 9 June
Sun 10 June
Morning
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Evening
Mon 11 June
Tues 12 June
Wed 13 June
Morning No Assembly
Morning No Assembly
Morning Group Base
Afternoon
Afternoon
Afternoon
Examinations are over – enjoy an evening off!
(A)
Wed 6 Jun
9.15 – 10.45
MATHEMATICS 1
11.15 – 12.45 MFL1 GERMAN & FRENCH Supervised Study 11.15 – 12.45 NON MFL1 FR & GE
(A)
Thu 7 Jun
Fri 8 Jun
94 73
2.15 – 3.45
THEATRE STUDIES
66
2.15 – 3.45
Supervised Study
101
9.15 – 10.45
HISTORY
NON THEATRE STUDIES
11.15 – 12.45 MFL1 SPANISH 11.15 – 12.45 2.00 – 3.30
(A)
167
Supervised Study NON MFL1 SPANISH
PHYSICS
9.15 – 10.45 COMPUTING 9.15 – 10.45
Supervised Study NON COMPUTING
11.15 – 12.45 LATIN
11.15 – 12.45
Supervised Study
2.00 – 3.30
ENGLISH
NON LATIN
9.15 – 10.45 GEOGRAPHY
167 73
11.15 – 12.45
MFL2 FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN
89 78
Supervised Study NON MFL2 / ITALIAN
H2
PJR
3-GE* 22
H2
SLL
MPW
H3
3A-2 22 GSW
H5
3B-2 22
H6
PJR
L2
Forms III-2 & III-5 3A/TS 18
H6
HKA
L1 L2
3/TS 18
H7
HKA
H2
H7
RPN
H10
RPN
3A-4 16 IR
M9
3B-4 18
M10
IR
JMB
H3
L4
Form III-7
Forms III-4, III-6 & III/8
3B/TS1 15 3B/TS2 15 HGH
H8
HGH
NJD
Revision (30mins) Written Paper (60 mins)
H10
L3
L4
Forms III-2 & III-3 Form III-4 3-1/HI 22 3-2/HI 19 3-3/HI 21 3*1/SP 23
3B-3 20
L3
Form II/3
Forms III-1 & III-7
JMB
3A-3 21
3*1/FR 19 3*2/FR 18 3*3/FR 17 3*4/FR 18 Revision (30mins) R&W Paper (60 mins) JVJ H3 SJBA H5 EFB H6 RLH H7
L1
H5
3*2/SP 22 3*3/SP 17
L7 Forms III/8 & III-6 surnames M-Z
Forms III-5 & III-6 surnames A-L 3-4/HI 21 DWF
H6
3-5/HI 20 RKP
H7
3-6/HI 21 NJD
H8
3*4/SP 11
3-7/HI 21 SB
H10
3-8/HI 22
H12
SB
Revision (30mins) R&W Paper (60 mins)
AJMS
3/CO1 22 3/CO2 22
3A/CO 23
3B/CO 22 GTB
H8
H5 H10
Forms III-1 & III-5
Forms III-2 & III-3
H2
PJM
3A/LA 15 41 JMM
GTB
H3
3B/LA 15 JMM
GTB
3-8/LA 11 CEG
H6
156
3-1/GY 22
3-2/GY 19
ESW H2
DMB
3-2/FR 19
3-3/FR 21
3-7/FR 21
3-8/FR 11
EFB H3
RLH H5
KRJ
JVJ
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H3
3-4/GE 9
H5
3-4/GY 21 ESW
H7
H8
foyer quietly by 1.50 3-5/GY 20 3-6/GY 21
3-7/GY 21
DMB H7
GPH
ESW
3-1/SP 22
3-4/SP 12
3C/SP 23
AJMS H7
GSPL H8
AJMS
H8
H10 H10
3-8/GY 22 LJG H12 3C/IL 18 SRP
H12
MFL2 Exam Format for FR, SP and IL: 30 mins Revision/ 60 mins R&W Paper MFL2 German Exam Format: 45mins Revision / 45 mins, R&W Paper
SLL H6
11
GPH
Forms III/8 & III-4
SPORTS HALL Please assemble in the Sports Hall
Unseen Poetry & Descriptive Writing
167
H14
Forms III-6 & III-7
H6 Forms III-6 & III-5 surnames F-L H7 Forms III-7 & III-5 surnames T-Z H8 Forms III/8 & III-3 surnames A-L
167 Note early start.
3-3/GY 21
H12 H18 & H19
H2 Forms III-1 & III-5 surnames A-E H3 Forms III-2 & III-3 surnames M-Z 126 H5 Forms III-4 & III-5 surnames A-E
11.15 – 12.45 MFL2 GERMAN 11.15 – 12.45
3B-1 24
H2 VBP H3 GSPL H5 EML H6 L1 Form III-1 L3 Form III-5 L4 Form III-6 L7 94 Forms III-2, III-3, III-7, III/8 L2 Form III-4 167 SPORTS HALL – Note early start. Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 1.50
(B)
Mon 11 Jun
3A-1 24
M6 Form III/8
1.45 – 3.15
BIOLOGY
167 SPORTS HALL Note VERY early start. Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 1.35 pm
9.15 – 10.45
MATHEMATICS 2
167 SPORTS HALL Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 9.05am
(B)
Tue 12 Jun
11.15 – 12.45 GAMES 2.15 – 3.45
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
167
(B)
9.15 – 10.45
41
Wed 13 Jun
CLASSICAL CIVILISATION
9.15 – 10.45
Supervised Study NON CLASS CIV
DESIGN & 11.15 – 12.45 TECHNOLOGY 11.15 – 12.45 Supervised Study NON D&T
2.00 – 3.30
CHEMISTRY
167 All Forms 3-1/RS 22 HEMS
H2
3/CC 21 CEG
H18
3-2/RS 19 RSK
H3
3-3/RS 21 3-4/RS 21 3-5/RS 20 CAL
H5
HEMS
H6
HEMS
3-6/RS 21
H7
RSK
H8
3-7/RS 21 3-8/RS 22 CAL H10
JGP
H12
3B/CC 20 JMM
H19
H2 Forms III-2 & III-1 surnames H-P
H6 Forms III-5 & III-7 surnames A-P H7 Forms III-6 & III-1 surnames R-Z H8 Forms III/8 & III-1 surnames A-B
126 H3 Forms III-3 & III-1 surnames C-G
H5 Forms III-4 & III-7 surnames R-Z
111 SPORTS HALL Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 11.05am 56
H2
Forms III-1 & III-3
H3
Forms III-2, III-7 & III/8
H5 Forms III-4, III-5
& III-6
167 SPORTS HALL Note early start. Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 1.50 pm
Good Luck
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