Mock Exams

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Mock Exams
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Whats the purpose of mock exams?
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How do you organise your teachers to mark the
Mocks?

• Who marks what?
• The importance of marking accurately
• What feedback to students do they give?
• How will you moderate the C borderline?
• Do you organise parallel marking?

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How much control do you have over the
organisation of your mocks?
How do you prepare your students for the
arrangements?
Notes for Revision Name.
English Language Paper 1 (1
hour 45 minutes) Monday 8th December Section A
Reading unseen non fiction texts - Answer all
the questions in this section. Section B
Writing to Argue, Persuade or Advise Answer only
one question from this section. Remember to make
a plan.
Revision Focus I need to revise and practise gt
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How do you suggest that they revise?
F
orm
L
anguage
Mnemonics
I
magery
R
hyme / reason
T
one
S
tructure
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Making plans

• In the first 5 minutes of the exam make a plan
• Brainstorm of ideas
• Choose the best 5
• Number them with 1 the most important idea
• They are the paragraphs for your answer.
• e.g. Your school wants to ban Saturday jobs for
  students. Write a letter to your Head teacher in
  which you argue either for or against the idea of
  Saturday jobs.

Responsibility
Earn money
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2
Get out of house
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For Saturday Jobs
Good experience
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Meet people
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Making Mind Maps
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How do you prepare students for using their time
in exams?
How do your teachers explicitly teach the
command words?
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After the mocks, how do you use the feedback with
the students?
After the mocks, how do you evaluate their
usefulness to the students?
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What has helped you to learn well in this
class? - The activities that has helped me is
topic sentences at the beginning I didnt
understand it and now I do - The activities that
have helped me are the ones that Miss has showed
us how to do the exam and then we try an old one.
- Talking and working together and mini
activities - I liked the way the teacher
interacted with the whole class, it was helpful
when there was a whole group activity and we were
able to share ideas - Highlighting lines from
text. Writing my own essays. Working in a close
to quiet classroom. I also know that Boy, Girl
idea was a good idea. Also having different
coloured sections for each area of study - During
the English lessons I feel I have learned really
well and the atmosphere in each lesson has been
calm and collected which helped me to work more
easily - I feel that the different sections and
the sheets that go with them have helped me
most - Work changes quickly which helps me learn
better and it has been reasonably fun - Group
work, student interacting with the class work,
and step by step learning
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Student self assessment what works best in your
department?
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Linking the AOs-How do you make coursework
achievement relate to exam success for the
students?