GCSE Revision Part 1

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GCSE RevisionPart 1

• March 2007

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Mum and Dad!
Job
Lifestyle
Peers
What motivates you?
Happiness
Good prospects
Money
Fear of failure
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The story so far.

• 63 weeks of GCSE.
• 2457 Periods of GCSE work so far.
• 147,420 minutes listening to your teachers!!
• You have 9,400 minutes of class time left
  before exam leave.

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Thats just 6.4 of the entire course!
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You can expect to get a lot of advice.
Brother/sister/cousins Parents Media etc etc

• Teachers
• Class teachers
• Year Head
• Deputy Rector
• Rector
• Mr Fenton
• Peer group

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What, How, Where, When?

• People up and down the country are asking the
  same questions.

You are not alone..
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Motivation Revision
By the time you reach this stage of the fifths
you should be able to self monitor.
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The Great Enemy..
Procrastination.
To put off until a later occasion. To be slow
to act.
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The Allies of Proctrastination.

• CD player.
• TV in room.
• Computer/WWW.
• Mobile phone.
• Practically anything other than your work!!!

All the things in the house that could distract
you and keep you from doing the revision that you
are there for.
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A typical room in the Hall of Residence.
W I n d o w
G r a s s
G i r l s
Sink
Bed
D e s k
Cupboard
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Dealing With Procrastination Timetable your
fixed hours and your recreation time. Make the
recreation compulsory, NOT the revision work.
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Dealing With Procrastination Focus on starting to
work, not on how many hours each day. Only
concentrate on a piece of work for 30 minutes to
start with. Then record this achievement on your
schedule and give yourself a reward.
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Dealing With Procrastination Start as many 30
minutes periods as you can. The aim is get into
the habit of frequently starting to
revise. Only after some success with this
approach should you gradually extend the study
periods.
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Dealing With Procrastination Negativity
Create a timetable.
Work out how much time you have before your exams.
Establish how much of that time you can
realistically work in.
Work towards the timetable.
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Exam preparation.

• Prior to Easter Holidays
• Easter holidays
• Upon return to school
• Weekends
• School days
• School day evenings
• Examination leave

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Between now and Easter.
You have 3 weekends and 14 school nights.
How would you feel if you did no work other than
your usual mediocre attempts at your prep?
How would you feel if you had done one extra 3
hour block each weekend and 2 hours each night
after school?
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That would be 37 hours of exam preparation done
before Easter!
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What can I be doing now?

• Plan your study space.
• Make sure that you have all the notes that you
  should have.
• Tidy up your notes so that they are in the
  correct order.
• Check that you have revision guides.
• Do you have a copy of the syllabus?

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Easter Holidays.

• You need a break - if you are staying at home
  then take the first week off!
• Work the other two weeks!
• Work in blocks of time each day.
• Divide the day up into three three hour blocks
• Work any two of these blocks.

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Easter Holidays.

• At this stage you should be revising all of your
  subjects
• After each half hour block take a short break.
• As specific exams loom after the holidays you can
  begin to focus on that subject.

Have you removed those distractions from your
bedroom yet?
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MBs schedule for the Easter break and study
leave. .
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PSD after the Easter Holidays

• Enter final planning for exams phase.
• Decide on class teachers for 6ths and 7ths.

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GCSE RevisionPart 2

• March 2007

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Edinburgh Academy Exam Rules.
Take particular care to read Mr Fentons advice
on Exam Rules.
By disobeying rules set by the exam board you
risk disqualification from ALL your subjects!
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Exam Leave.

• Starts on
• During the bulk of the exams.
• You will have exams beforehand.
• You may have an exam after exam leave.
• You will be expected in school on Friday

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Exam Leave.

• Your teachers will be available to you during
  exam leave.
• You can expect them to be in their classroom
  during normal GCSE time-tabled lessons.
• If no one shows up during the first 10 minutes of
  the lessons they may leave.
• Communication is crucial!

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Study Exam Strategies Sort out topics for
revision Based on the syllabus examination
requirements predictions derived from past
papers guidelines suggested by teachers.
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The World Wide Web.
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Exam Stress!!!!!

• Your anxiety might only be coming from a couple
  of subject areas. Identify the problem and try
  to solve it.
• Talk about worries you have with a friend, parent
  or teacher. They might be able to see a solution
  that you cannot.

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Exam Stress!!!!!

• Consider breathing and relaxation exercises
  before and after revision sessions and after
  exams.
• Relax by forgetting about work play sport, read
  or visit friends. Physical exercise is an
  excellent way of refreshing your mind and body.

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Exam Stress!!!!!

• Keep to your normal pattern of sleep.
• Keep to a balanced, healthy diet.
• Avoid drinking coffee which can lead to stress
  and stomach cramps.
• As far as possible, take control know when the
  exams are and where, ensure in advance that you
  have all necessary stationary and turn up on time.

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Exam Strategies Practical preparations Check
the time and venue Have the necessary equipment
ready Emotional preparations Consider what
might additionally help Memory considerations
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Exam skills Read the exam paper
carefully. Note how many questions you are
required to answer. Analyse carefully the
precise wording of questions. Tick the questions
you intend to answer. Make a rough
timetable. Answer questions in the order
easiest, favourite, most difficult.
So much of this comes down to knowing what to
expect.
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Completing Past Paper questions is crucial!
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Time Management in Exams.
We are going to look at the marks of 2 students
in the same exam. The exam paper required 4
questions to be answered in 2 hours and 30
minutes and each question was allocated 25 marks
- a total of 100 marks.
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Time Management in Exams.
2 hours and 30 minutes 150 minutes. 10 minutes
to read the question paper leaves 140 minutes.
140/4 questions 35 minutes for each question.
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Time Management in Exams.
The Scores on the Doors.
Student A Q1 18 Q2 16 Q3 10 Q4 0 Total 44
Student B Q1 13 Q2 13 Q3 14 Q4 12 Total 52
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Questions.

• Which student knows more about the subject?
• Why did student A have such wide variation in his
  scores?
• What do student Bs marks suggest about him?
• What lessons can be learned?

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After the exam Don't indulge in
postmortems. Review what went well in your
overall approach, before and during the
exam, including the way you handled
anxiety. Aim to improve upon that in the next
exam.
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Fail to prepare, prepare to fail