1. Year 8 Revision and Exam preparation

2. Exam Week 2017 Morning Afternoon Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Morning
Afternoon
Tuesday
25/06/13
Geography
English
Wednesday
26/06/13
Science
Art and Design
Thursday
27/06/13
Languages
Mathematics
Friday
28/06/13 RE
History
Lessons will be suspended for the week.
You will be expected to have prepared revision to study when you do not have an exam.
When you have entered an exam room, exam conditions apply. Absolute best behaviour and no talking at all times.
This will help prepare you for your actual GCSE’s in the future.

3. Task – Complete your personal timetable.
Planning to revise
Task – Complete your personal timetable.
Week commencing
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
3rd June
10th June
17th June
Plan to do revision in class when you are not in exams.
24th June
Exam Week
Geography
English
Science
Art & Design
Languages
Maths
R.E.
History
 Build in breaks and other commitments.

4. Preparing to revise Has your brain been fuelled?
Even before we sit down to revise there are a number of factors that we need to get right.
Has your brain been fuelled?
Lots of water. The brain needs 6-8 glasses a day or 1 litre.

5. Preparing to revise
You need to be in the right frame of mind to revise.
If you have had a bad day try and de-stress.
Exercise
Spending some time doing things you like.
We learn effectively at different times of the day.

6. Preparing to revise
We learn effectively in different places. Make the place you work in separate from the one you relax in. We learn effectively after we have had plenty of sleep. We learn effectively using different time scales. Short bursts or longer followed by breaks.

7. We learn in different ways

8. We learn in different ways
Say it out loud or sing it!
Have music on
Draw it in pictures
List it in order
Learning lists – make up funny phrases or acronyms.
Explain it to someone else

9. We learn in different ways
Try using mind maps and spider diagrams
Cue cards may be helpful too
Technology can save time
 Info in revision guide.

10. Task 2
In your groups complete a spider diagram/mind map
HISTORY TOPIC

11. The day of the exam Managing Nerves Come Prepared...
Think positively about what you know ...not what you don’t
Come Prepared...
...pack the night before.
Eat Breakfast
Managing Nerves
Share with someone about how you are feeling
Deep breathing
Listen carefully to instructions
Make sure you are on time
Read the questions carefully
Go to bed early the night before

12. Exam techniques Read questions carefully Bring correct/spare equipment
Organise your time
Look for keywords in the questions
Move on if you are unsure of a question and go back later
Go over answers at the end
Leave nothing unanswered

13. Reflect on what you have heard this morning and think of things YOU can that may help you revise and stay calm!
Now complete Task 3

14. A Prayer Before Study
Holy Spirit, giver of all good gifts, enter into my mind and heart. Give me the gift of knowledge and the grace to use it wisely. Help me in all my endeavours. Give me perseverance and fortitude. Help my memory, that I may remember what I learn and recall it when necessary. Guide me in the classroom. You, who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, let me not be deceived by false teaching. Our Lady of Good Studies, pray for me. Amen.