2. ‘How do I revise?’

3. How to revise for your science GCSE
1st science exam – 15th May
14 weeks
(11 weeks in school)
BBC revision techniques

4. Visit the science area on your the year 11 blog
We have made many revision accessible to you through your blog.
At the top of Mr Elkerton’s blog is a science tab.

5. Instructions how to log in to Collins Connect online textbook
You have access to Collin’s Connect which is the online version of the textbook you use in your science lessons.
If you haven’t yet accessed this, the instructions of how to are here.
You should already be using Collins Connect to help you with your home learning and also the home learning revision tasks you are set each week from your booklet.
As well as using Collin’s Connect to help you with current work, you can also use it to give you structured revision activities.

6. Use the questions to test yourself
Every page has questions, these don’t just have to be used in the lesson, complete these questions when revising a page.
If you click on the question number you’ll see the answer.
Use the questions to test yourself
(click on number to check the answer)

7. Checklists At the end of each chapter there are checklists.
You could use these as a revision checklist, or you could even use these as points for a mindmap.

8. Worked example exam questions
At the end of each chapter there are worked examples for exam questions.
You could complete these questions first, then follow the worked examples to go through your answers

9. Practise questions
At the end of each topic there are practise questions.

10. All units
Every unit for Biology, Chemistry and Physics is covered.

11. Visit the science area on your the year 11 blog
Other revision resources

12. Quick quiz questions
Quick quiz questions.

13. Short questions and answers for each unit.
Test yourself, test a friend, get your parents to test you.

16. Quick quiz questions
These are not good enough just to use alone as revision as they don’t cover depth, but they’re a good starting point to see what areas you need to focus your revision on, or as a quick test at the end of a revision session.

17. Visit the science area on your the year 11 blog
The most important part of revision, is applying what you know to exam questions.
You have already been given past exam questions every week to complete, as well as additional exam papers your teachers have been setting you.

18. Link to specimen exam papers
If you scroll down the science are of your blog you’ll see a link to your exam board’s website.
Most of your are doing Combine Science Trilogy, triple will need the links to Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

19. AQA website with specimen exam papers
On the AQA website there is a specimen paper for each of the 6 exams you will be sitting for science.
You are sitting exams for a new course this year.
These are the exam papers that the examiners wrote when the course was first designed and the only specimen papers available to the public.
The examiners will have expected you to have done these.
Therefore you need to do these papers.

20. What you need to know about the Exams
They are written by experienced teachers.
The questions are designed to be accessible, the average reading age is 13.
The only thing they test is the Science. Everything else is there if you look for it.
They don’t repeat anything so look at the whole question.
The examiners like you to write in bullet points.
There is ramping throughout the paper, as well as within questions.

21. The exams have a ramping structure so generally they get harder as you go through the exam.
The middle section has easy and difficult questions.
Go through the paper and do all the easy questions, then go back and do the more difficult questions.

22. ‘What does this mean to me?’
Go through the whole paper and do all the easy ones first!!!

23. Know the meaning of command words
The main reason for practising exam questions is to get used to the terminology used and knowing what the examiner is asking for.
Every question will contain a command word.

24. Meanings are on the blog
Some are quite obvious

25. Meanings are on the blog
Some require practise.
There is a list of all the command words and meanings used by AQA on the science area of your blog.

26. What about…

27. And 56% of them got an A or an A*
95% of students that used Tassomai regularly achieved a C or above in their GCSE science exam.
And 56% of them got an A or an A*
(2016 results)

28. How does Tassomai work?
Tassomai filters the syllabus into ‘micro-quizzes’

29. How does Tassomai work?
Tassomai filters the syllabus into ‘micro-quizzes’
Tassomai will decide what you need to do each day to learn the syllabus in time for your exams

30. How does Tassomai work?
Tassomai filters the syllabus into ‘micro-quizzes’
Tassomai will decide what you need to do each day to learn the syllabus in time for your exams
The algorithm adapts to each student, identifying gaps in your knowledge and helping you learn

31. How does Tassomai work?
Tassomai filters the syllabus into ‘micro-quizzes’
Tassomai will decide what you need to do each day to learn the syllabus in time for your exams
The algorithm adapts to each student, identifying gaps in your knowledge and helping you learn
Each student will have a completely unique journey through the program

32. How does Tassomai work?
Tassomai filters the syllabus into ‘micro-quizzes’
Tassomai will decide what you need to do each day to learn the syllabus in time for your exams
Your course is tailored to the board specifications, so you can have peace of mind that everything you’re learning is relevant for school and for your exams.
The algorithm adapts to each student, identifying gaps in your knowledge and helping you learn
Each student will have a completely unique journey through the program

33. How does Tassomai work? Tailored to the new GCSE specifications!
Tassomai filters the syllabus into ‘micro-quizzes’
Tassomai will decide what you need to do each day to learn the syllabus in time for your exams
Your course is tailored to the board specifications, so you can have peace of mind that everything you’re learning is relevant for school and for your exams.
Tailored to the new
GCSE specifications!
The algorithm adapts to each student, identifying gaps in your knowledge and helping you learn
Each student will have a completely unique journey through the program

34. You can use Tassomai on your smartphones, laptops or tablets.

35. Simply log on and do some quizzes each day!

36. The Quizzes

37. The Student Dashboard The Performance Wheel
Any green portions of the wheel show you which topics are ON TRACK.
Your wheel will change colour depending on how many quizzes you do, and how accurate your answers are.
Blue portions represent topics where you are AHEAD.

38. The aim of the game is to keep this wheel BLUE or GREEN!
The Performance Wheel
The Student Dashboard
Any green portions of the wheel show you which topics are ON TRACK
The aim of the game is to keep this wheel BLUE or GREEN!
Blue portions represent topics where you are AHEAD

39. The Student Dashboard The Performance Wheel
If you don’t log in each day and do your quizzes for that day, your wheel will start to go orange and then red

40. The Student Dashboard The Performance Wheel
Orange represents the topics where you are TRAILING
If you don’t log in each day and do your quizzes for that day, your wheel will start to go orange and then red

41. The Student Dashboard The Performance Wheel
Orange represents the topics where you are TRAILING
If you don’t log in each day and do your quizzes for that day, your wheel will start to go orange and then red
Red shows you how many topics are BEHIND

42. The Student Dashboard The Performance Wheel
But don’t worry if this does happen - just do some quizzes to get your wheel back to blue or green!

43. The Student Dashboard The Performance Wheel
But don’t worry if this does happen - just do some quizzes to get your wheel back to blue or green!

44. Special offer
All of your circles were re-set to green this morning. You just have to keep them there.

45. Remember Tassomai is designed to be used for a SHORT TIME every day.
It gets results…
…if you use it.
Your parents will be getting updates soon.
If you do 80% of it, you get your money back.
There is still time to get it.

46. How to revise for your science GCSE
1st science exam – 15th May
14 weeks
(11 weeks in school)

47. How to revise for your science GCSE
Do make a detailed and specific revision timetable
Do have revision breaks
Do use your revision guide to practise lots of questions
Do physically write out the answers to practise questions
Do mix up your revision style
Do not spend hours copying and making pretty revision notes
Do not spend hours just reading your revision guide

48. Book Hand Reading revision guide and making revision notes
The last two may look like you have done a lot of work, and will take you a long time.
However, it is quite likely that in an exam your brain will feel like a sieve and you will not be able to reproduce what was in your notes, in to an exam question.
Book
Hand
Will not stay in memory for the exam

49. Would this guy pass the exam?

50. Brain Book Hand Practising questions and testing yourself
Instead of writing pretty notes, write answers in to exam questions.
You do not have to do these in examination conditions. Even answering questions or completing mind maps using Collins Connect or your revision guide will still allow your brain to process the information before writing it down.
This method of revising is more likely to allow you to retain information and apply it to questions in the exam.
Book
Hand
Understanding and retaining for the exam

51. How to revise for your science GCSE
1st science exam – 15th May
14 weeks
(11 weeks in school)
BBC cramming