1. Year 11 Advice Evening 13 September 2018 Welcome

2. Staff this evening Stewart Vaughan Hannah St Ledger Sian Farrell
Richard Foster
Shereen Lai Lan

3. Parental Engagement Your children are, Older More independent
Perhaps less communicative
Hormonal
Studying content you don’t understand
And yet…

4. Managing Stress and understanding memory
Structuring Revision
Managing Stress and understanding memory

5. Revision Structure
The following information is not guesswork, or theory, or a trick.
This is based on the study of 7000 studies for all manner of exams. The ones who followed these rules got, on average, at least one grade higher than those who ignored them. Irrespective of how ‘intelligent’ they were.

6. How much time should I spend working at any one time?
SIMPLE MINS
In total?
No chance!! At any one time.
You can aim to do 22 x 5 in any one session

7. Recapping: 7 is the magic number
Start your second 22 minute session by recapping the first.
Start your third session by recapping your second and so on…..
Recapping works best when you ask SEVEN questions or remember SEVEN pieces of information about what you have just learnt.

8. What does one revision session look like then?
22 mins
Little break
22 mins (with recap)
Big Break

9. “I work well in front of the TV”
No you don’t!!!!!!
You are kidding yourself
Scientific research shows that it would take you 25 hours to revise something in front of the TV when it would take you one hour to revise without.

10. What about Music? If its new music or the Radio – big problem.
New music/DJs interrupt your thinking. In the exam you’ll remember song lyrics or what the DJ said. You will not remember the work.
There is no evidence to say that it helps.

11. Good structures prevent stress.

12. Encouraging balance Evening workshops Saturday workshops But also…
Cinema tickets
Nandos vouchers
Playzone Trip!

13. Balance in your social life

14. Feeling anxious… First things first…we all do
Anxiety is an instinctive reaction to pressure
Anxiety and pressure are not bad in themselves
Not managing them can be…

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16. Managing Stress Breathing! Counting to calm down 7:11 Exercise Music
Talking things through with a neutral friend
Seeing the other person’s point of view

17. Self quizzing Rating: HUGE Record cards/Flash cards
Look –cover-say or write-check
Process of transferring is active
The movement of the cards is active
Identifying the ones you’ve mastered is prioritising and therefore deeper
Low stakes-high success
Rating: HUGE

18. Distributed practice/Spacing
Don’t cram!
Time to go back. Time to forget.
For an exam in six months there should be enough opportunity to return three times to each topic. Ideally every three weeks.
Rating: High

19. Elaborate Explanation
Channel your inner 4 year old
“Why use that word?”
“Why does that work?”
“What is that for?”
“What’s this got to do with that?”
Rating: High

20. Techniques with lower ratings
Re-reading
Cramming
Highlighting
Key word mnemonics
Summarising

21. Why record cards? Simple Cheap Active Easy to do Flexible
Most importantly…they work

22. Break it down
The beauty of these cards is in how they help you to break large subject content into smaller , more manageable chunks. Top tip- Make a topic list for each subject. Study a topic and make cards. So instead of just having English, for example, you have…

23. Topics in English, eg… Break it down. Start early. Learn loads.
Characters in “Of Mice and Men”
Loneliness in “Of Mice and Men”
Exam Poems
Rules for writing to describe
Techniques for writing to argue
Break it down. Start early. Learn loads.

24. Self quizzing is the biggest winner in all research about revision.
Process of transferring is active
The movement of the cards is active
Identifying the ones you’ve mastered is prioritising and therefore deeper learning
Low stakes-high success
Success rating: HUGE

25. Key quotations for English
Key quote in the middle of the card
Reason for its importance around the edges
LOOK- COVER- QUIZ

27. Key topics Write topic area on one side
Write key content on the other side
LOOK- COVER- QUIZ

30. History Key dates Key events Correct order
Top tip: Try putting individual events on individual cards and quizzing yourself on the correct order of events.

33. Top tip Don’t write too much Don’t write things you already know
Don’t write everything
Key words
Key ideas
Key dates
Your Brain will fill in the gaps

34. Remember Record cards help you retain huge amounts of knowledge.
They don’t help you practice writing full answers, you still need to practice exam question skills constantly.
The more knowledge you have the easier this is.
Get going now!

35. Folders

36. Period 7s

37. Revision Information