1. Revision Guidance & Examination Support for Year 11 Students and their Parents
2015
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2. College and Sixth Form Applications 2015
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3. Strategies for Effective Revision (also see booklet)
Write out exams in order of when they occur putting the paper numbers, topics and topic units if appropriate
Make a timetable for revising
Condense the content of each topic into very brief summarising notes
“Learn” notes
Practice jotting down outlines for answers to real examination questions
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4. Essential Exam Information
Candidate Numbers must be written on the front of every Exam Answer Booklet.
Final entry information has now been sent.
Morning exams start a 9.00am and afternoon exams at 1.00pm. Students must be outside their examination room 20 minutes before their exam is due to start.
Students must attend in full school uniform.
All exams must be completed in black ink. The pencil case must be transparent! Water bottles must have labels removed.
Under no circumstances must mobile phones be taken into the examination room.
KS4 Examinations results will be available on 20th August Details of how these are distributed will be communicated nearer the time.
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5. Leavers Information Official Leavers date – June 30th 2015.
Normal lessons continue for all students until May Half Term unless they are in an exam or Booster Session.
If students have an afternoon exam they can return to their lesson/booster, wait quietly in the Dining Area or they can go home.
After May Half Term students can stop attending lessons once they have sat their final exam in a subject area. BTECs continue until June 30th but students will be signed off before this if they have completed all coursework to target grade.
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6. What we are doing… Revision Sessions/Individual & Small Group Tuition
Holiday Revision
Coursework Support Sessions
Exam Boosters
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7. Exam Boosters
Students will have ‘Booster’ sessions close to each of their exams. This proved popular and successful last year.
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8. Exam Boosters – Student Booklet
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11. English Tips – iGCSE English
Student have until the end of THIS week to complete all of their coursework. This is imperative as it is worth 60% of their final grade.
Students will sit one exam for their iGCSE English.
COMPONENT A C E
Exam (Core – out of 50) 31 19
Exam (Extended – out of 50) 28 23 16
Coursework (out of ) 44 32 20
S&L (out of 30) 25 15
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12. Question 1 asks you to use information and reshape it into a different type of text [15 marks + 5 marks QWC]
Question 2 is about selecting information and analyzing it – good old ‘PEE’ [10 marks]
Question 3 asks you to look at a new text and retrieve 15 points and write them in note form [15 marks]
Question 4 asks you to use these points to write a summary of the article you read [5 marks]

13. Question 1

14. Question 2

17. Question 3a 3a
Summarise the points made about the sea, and its amazing features, according to Passage B.
Up to 15 marks are available for the content of your answer.

18. Give one mark for each (or similar points):
Covers most of the earth’s surface (allow statistic)
Its extreme depth (allow statistic)
No-one has ever reached the bottom of the ocean
Discoveries of animal species/ecosystems
Contains the largest animal
Large amount of (natural) gold (not treasure)
Has own mythology/monsters
Vessels can disappear without warning
Monster waves
Sudden changes
Could explain origins of human existence
Coral reefs
Roman/ancient cities
Has secrets yet to be discovered
Part of our heritage

19. MATHEMATICS
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