Year 10 Summer Exams 2023

As we head towards the summer, it is the time of year when we move into the examination season. As our Year 11 enter their final stage of their GCSE assessment journey, our Year 10 pupils must also start to think of their own internal assessments which commence on Monday 5th June. Individual teachers will provide students with a lot of information about what will be required in their exams, but I wanted to provide you with an overview of some of the key revision information that has been provided. In this way you will be better positioned to help your child through this important period of the school year.

In some subjects detailed revision lists have already been provided to students, and this information will not be repeated again here, but at least you will know of these lists, and you can help your child work through them.

I hope you find the following summary useful.

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Summer Exam Timetable

YEAR 10 SUMMER EXAMS 2023 - MPBX

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Subject Revision Requirements

Length of Exam

Key Topics for Revision

Students will work on a large observational drawing. This drawing should relate as closely as it can to the theme students have chosen to explore for their organic sculptures. They will need to produce preparatory drawings and studies prior to the exam on a design sheet. These will also be marked and graded as part of the final exam piece.

Full Day

Biology

Length of Exam

Key Topics for Revision

• cell structure and transport

• cell division

• organisation and the digestive system

• organising animals and plants

• communicable diseases

• preventing and treating disease

• non-communicable disease

• photosynthesis

• respiration

1 Hour

15 Minutes (combined science)

1 Hour 45 Minutes (separate science)

In this end of year test your son/daughter will be sitting a GCSE Biology Paper 1 mock. The topics included are highlighted above and include topics taught in both Form 3 and Form 4.

In order to prepare for the end of year test your son / daughter can make use of the textbooks that were issued to them at the beginning of the year as well as the following online resources:

• Kerboodle; this online resource requires a username and password that has already been issued to your son/daughter. If they have forgotten either of these they can see their teacher to reset it. On Kerboodle you can access topic checklists, animations and other revision materials.

• My GCSE Science; this is a bank of online video tutorials with practice GCSE questions. If your son/daughter has forgotten their username or password they can ask their teacher to reset it.

Key Topics for Revision

Your examination will consist of a selection of questions from two actual AQA GCSE business examinations. Paper 1 will cover human resources management, and paper 2 will cover finance and marketing. Other topics we have covered in Year 9 and 10, including influences, may be asked on either paper.

Length of Exam 1 Hour

45 Minutes

Specific concepts for consideration:

• financial methods of motivation

• training

• factors of production

• deeds of partnerships

• organisational structure

• consumer law

• recruitment documents

• business objectives

• internal recruitment

• financial calculations

• expanding a business

• business ownership

• opportunity cost

• diseconomies of scale

• the balance sheet

• market research

• cash flow

• sources of finance

• extension strategies

• break even analysis

• factors influencing prices

• the ARR

Computer Science

Key Topics for Revision

Written Paper

The summer exam will be covering the theory content that the pupils have studied this year and last, including:

• Hex

• Logic gates

• ASCII

• Binary

• Storage medium

• Networks

• Threats to networks

Length of Exam 2x 1 Hour

Computer Based Programming Paper

• Locating and fixing syntax/ logic errors in code written in python

• Writing code in python using basic sequencing

• Writing code in python using iteration (while, for) and selection

• Casting - working with different data types (integer, string, float)

• Using basic mathematical operators

• Basic validation techniques

• Writing code using 1-dimentional arrays (lists)

• Append, sort

• Using functions (procedures)

• String manipulation

Chemistry

Length of Exam

Key Topics for Revision

• Atomic Structure

• The Periodic Table

• Structure and Bonding

• Chemical Calculations

• Chemical Changes

• Electrolysis

• Energy Changes

In this end of year test your son/ daughter will be sitting a GCSE Chemistry Paper 1 mock. The topics included are highlighted above and includes topics taught in both Form 3 and Form 4.

In order to prepare for the end of year test, your son / daughter can make use of the textbooks that were issued to them at the beginning of the year as well as the following online resources:

1 Hour

15 Minutes (combined science)

1 Hour

45 Minutes (separate science)

• Kerboodle; this online resource requires a username and password that has already been issued to your son/daughter. If they have forgotten either of these they can see their teacher to reset it. On Kerboodle you can access topic checklists, animations and other revision materials.

• My GCSE Science; this is a bank of online video tutorials with practise GCSE questions. If your son/daughter has forgotten their username or password they can ask their teacher to reset it.

Design and Technology

Key Topics for Revision

Questions will be set assessing knowledge of CORE TECHNICAL PRINCIPLES and SPECIALIST TECHNICAL PRINCIPLES.

Topics include:

• Sustainability including renewable and non-renewable energy sources, The Six Rs, Sustainable sources of materials

• Composite materials

• Mechanisms including gears, bell-crank linkages; First Order, Second Order and Third Order levers

• Types of motion including linear, reciprocating, rotary and oscillating

• The origin of materials (woods come from ….., Paper and boards come from ….)

• Business models including cooperatives, crowd funding, fair trade, virtual marketing, and planned obsolescence

• Material properties including strength, toughness and hardness

• PICs (Programmable Integrated Circuits) or ‘programmable micro controllers’, their uses and advantages, circuit components and symbols

• Aesthetics

• Ergonomics

• Anthropometrics

Length of Exam 1 Hour 15 Minutes

• Surface finishes – types of, reasons for, advantages of these e.g. varnishes, lamination, wax, adonising

• Changing the material properties to make them more suitable and fit for purpose (one of: seasoning timber, waterproofing paper and card or other techniques of your choice through revision)

• Commercial manufacturing of timbers, papers and boards

Resources such as Seneca, revision guides and course text books along with class notes are good resources to help pupils prepare for these exams

Please note that D&T is a five year course and many of these have been covered (in class or as homework) in previous years

Key Topics for Revision

The examination will consist of answering a selection of questions from an actual Edexcel Drama Component 2 examination. This will include: all questions from Section A, that relate to acting or directing an actor; playing a role within our set text ‘An Inspector Calls’; and all questions from Section B which are focussed on Live Theatre Evaluation. You will be analysing and evaluating ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’.

To achieve well you will need to know the basics of the text of ‘An Inspector Calls’ and be able to apply your knowledge of acting and directing skills to one key extract/the whole play, using the technical language of acting within your answers. An extract will be provided from the play for you, in the exam. You will also

Length of Exam 1 Hour

need to be able to analyse and evaluate key moments from ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’, including acting and a design element. You may take 500 words of notes on this production, into the exam with you.

Key Topics for Revision:

• Acting and Design: technical vocabulary.

• ‘An Inspector Calls’: Key characters, plot, themes and message.

• Live Theatre Production: Key moments of acting and design.

• Command words (and how to apply them): describe, analyse, and evaluate.

Revision resources will be published on our Google Classroom.

English Language

Key Topics for Revision

You need to remember how you answered questions from the practice exam papers you completed in class. You should consolidate your skills with practice at home.

For section A: Exploring writers’ viewpoints and perspectives you will need to:

• Summarise information and find links between two nonfiction texts

• -explore the writers’ use of language to affect the reader

• -identify the writers’ viewpoints and perspectives in a text(s).

For section B: Writing to express a viewpoint

You will need to write an extended piece of writing for a specific purpose, presenting a well organised and coherent point of view about a given topic.

You will be asked to write for a specific purpose e.g. ‘Write a speech persuading your local MP to improve services to support young people in your local area’ or ‘Write an article for the school magazine in which you explain why social media can negatively affect your mental health.’

You should practise each stage of the writing process: planning, drafting and crafting. You will need to check each sentence for: accuracy, clarity, concision, and precision of expression.

English Literature

Key Topics for Revision

For English Literature you will have to write two essays on the texts that you have studied this year: ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’.

For section A: William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ (30 marks + 4 marks for SPaG)

You will be given an extract from the play and will need to respond to a single question with close reference to the extract and to the rest of the play. For example: ‘Starting with the extract, explore how Shakespeare presents … in ‘Macbeth’.

To revise, you should:

• use your revision notes

• read through model examples from your exercise books

• learn key quotations relating to character / theme

• practise planning exam responses for a variety of different questions

Section B: ‘William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ (30 marks)

You will be given a question on either a character or a theme e.g. ‘Explore how Golding presents the breakdown of civilisation in the novel’.

To revise, you should:

• re-read or listen to an audio recording of the novel

• use your revision notes

• read through model examples from your exercise book and/ or online workbook

• learn key quotations relating to character/theme

• practise planning for a variety of different exam questions.

Key Topics for Revision

The following topics will be covered in the listening, speaking, reading and writing exams. The listening and the speaking will take in lesson time before the exam period.

Length of Exam Various

Holidays (P. 118)

• Describing a past holiday

• Describing how you normally spend your holidays

• The importance of holidays

Local Area (P. 94)

• Where you live

• What can do there

• Pros and cons of living there

• What you have done recently in your area

• How you would like to change it

School (P. 138)

• Subjects you study and your opinion

• Describe uniform

• Talk about rules – give your opinion about them

• What you did yesterday in school

• Is homework important?

• Past tense

• Present Tense

• Key phrases for stating opinions and pros and cons

• Present tense + depuis + time

• On peut/ on ne peut pas

• Un avantage est que / Un inconvénient est que

• Past Tense

• Conditional Tense

• Agreement of adjectives

• Colours and articles

• On doit/il faut/ il est interdit de + infinitive

• Past Tense

• Key phrases for stating opinions and pros and cons

Topic Grammar

Topic Grammar

Jobs (P. 158)

• Duties of certain jobs

• Pros and cons of certain jobs

• What you would like to do in the future

Food and Drink (P.72)

• Favourite food and drink

• Health benefits of certain foods

• Food you have consumed recently

Celebrations (P.72)

• Subjects you study and your opinion

• Describe uniform

• Talk about rules – give you opinion about them

• What you did yesterday in school

• Is homework important?

• Il faut + infinitive

• Key phrases for stating opinions and pros and cons

• Future Tense

• J’aime / je n’aime pas … car

• Ça contient … c’est riche en … c’est bon pour …

• Past Tense

• Past tense + opinions in the past

• Present tenes

• Conditional tense

History

Britain: Power and the people

c1170 to the present

Key Topics for Revision

Challenging authority and feudalism in Medieval England, (King John and the Magna Carta, King Henry III and Simon de Montfort, Peasants Revolt)

Challenging royal authority in Tudor and Stuart England, (Henry VIII and the Pilgrimage of Grace, King Charles I and the English Civil War, King George III and the American Revolution) Reform and reformers in the nineteenth century, (Chartism and the Great Reform Act, The Anti – slavery movement, Anti Corn Law League and Social Reformers, Tolpuddle Martyrs and Trade Unions)

Equality and rights in the nineteenth and twentieth century, (Campaign for women’s Suffrage, Workers Rights and Trade Union reforms, Minority rights: the development of multi-racial society since the Second World War; discrimination, protest and reform; the Brixton Riots, their impact, including the Scarman Report).

The exam will include a combination of ‘describe’ and ‘explain’ questions. Students will be expected to interpret and analyse sources.

All pupils have access to the textbooks used in class and their class notes.

Length of Exam 1 Hour

History

Conflict in Asia 1950 - 1975

Key Topics for Revision

Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950 -1975: Conflict in Korea and the escalation of conflict in Vietnam; The causes, development and consequences of the Korean War; the end of French colonial rule in Vietnam; The US involvement, Johnson’s War (the escalation of the conflict), Nixon’s war (the ending of the conflict in Vietnam).

The exam will include a combination of ‘describe’ and ‘explain’ questions. Students will be expected to interpret and analyse sources.

All pupils have access to the textbooks used in class and their class notes.

Length of Exam 1 Hour

Latin - Language

Key Topics for Revision

Vocabulary: Chapters 1-16 Vocabulary as seen on Quizlet -

Length of Exam 1 Hour

30 Minutes

https://quizlet.com/Miss_Bicknell/folders/suburani-vocab-book-1/sets

Chapters 17-18 Vocabulary as seen on Quizlet -

https://quizlet.com/Miss_Bicknell/folders/suburani-vocab-book-1/sets

Grammar: Suburani Language Notes on Chapters 1-16 of the online textbook and notes from your exercise books.

• Nouns – 1st, 2nd m, 2nd n and 3rd Declensions and Adjectives 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

• Noun Cases –Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative and Ablative in both the Singular and Plural (NAGDA)

• Verbs – Present, Imperfect, Perfect Tense, Future Tense and the Pluperfect Tense; also Infinitives.

• Irregular Verbs –‘to be’ (esse) in the present tense (sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt) and the Imperfect tense (eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant)

• Irregular Verbs – ‘to be able’ (possum), ‘to want’ (volo), ‘to not want’ (nolo), ‘eo, ire, ii’ (to go, also with prefixes e.g. per-, trāns-, ab-) in the Present Tense.

• Superlatives and Comparatives.

• Prepositions; Time Expressions; The Imperative and The Vocative.

• Relative Clauses and Relative Pronouns (qui, quae, quod).

• Direct and Indirect Statements (accusative + infinitive structure)

• ‘hic, haec, hoc’; ‘ille, illa, illud’; ‘is, ea, id’ look at the tables for these pronouns in the Grammar Reference section.

Latin - Literature

Key Topics for Revision

• revise ‘Epitaph to Claudia’, ‘Seneca’s Changing Morals’ and ‘Catullus’ Poem 85’

• ensure you know the content of these texts well and glance over the types of comprehension questions in your booklets

• remind yourself of the 6/8 marker question format (point, latin, translate, grammatical feature, explain)

• remind yourself of the 16 marker question format – have a look at the example questions I give you in class

• study the images from your booklet which link to love & marriage in Ancient Rome

Length of Exam 1 Hour

Latin Civilisation

Key Topics for Revision

• men in Ancient Rome

• the role of women

• slavery and freedmen

• growing up in Ancient Rome

• education

• Marriage and Divorce

• family religion

• death and burial

Revise the format for a 12 mark essay question. Think about your AO2 and AO3 points.

Length of Exam Latin Civilisation 1 Hour

Mathematics

Key Topics for Revision

A detailed revision sheet for each paper has already been handed to pupils.

Key topics studied this year include: Trigonometry & Pythagoras, Equations (including quadratics), Number work (HCF/LCM, Fractions, Decimals & Percentages), Probability & Set Theory, Similar shapes & Congruency, Graphs, and Algebraic Manipulation.

Pupils should assess each topic using a RAG (red, amber, green) system. They should begin by watching the Maths Watch clips for any topic they assess as ‘red’ and answer the interactive questions.

Length of Exam 3 x 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Key Topics for Revision

Revision topics to include 3 of the 4 areas of studies covered to date: area of study 1 (Instrumental Music

1700-1820), area of study 2 (Vocal Music), and area of study 3 (Music for Stage and Screen).

This written examination is component 3 of the GCSE Music qualification (Appraising - paper code: 1MU0/03) and is 40% of the total qualification. As not all areas of study have been covered yet, this summer’s paper will therefore consist of only the following:

• 6 questions related to the 6 set works covered

• one short melody/rhythm completion exercise

• one question on an unfamiliar piece (skeleton score provided) with questions on its musical elements, musical contexts and musical language.

Length of Exam 1 Hour 15 Minutes

The exam will be on a selection of work covered in the course this year. There will be a selection of multiple choice, short answer and long answer questions needing application and evaluation of knowledge. The pupils are reminded to use practical sporting examples in their answers.

Key Topics for Revision

Skeletal System

• functions and structure

• classification and role of joints

• joint actions

• classification of bones

Muscular System

• classification and roles

• location

• antagonistic pairs

Cardiovascular System

• structure and function

• arteries, capillaries and veins

Length of Exam 1 Hour 15 Minutes

Respiratory System

• location and roles of principle components eg. Trachea

• structure and function of alveoli (gaseous exchange).

Movement Analysis

• lever systems

• planes and axes of movement

Physical Training

• components of fitness

• fitness tests

• methods of training

• Short term effects of exercise

• Physical, emotional and social health

Length of Exam

Physics

Key Topics for Revision

• conservation and dissipation of energy

• energy transfer by heating

• energy resources

• electric circuits

• electricity in the home

• molecules and matter

• radioactivity

In this end of year test, your son/daughter will be sitting a GCSE physics paper1. The topics included are highlighted above and include topics from both Form 3 and Form 4.

In order to prepare for the end of year test, your son / daughter can make use of the textbooks that were issued to them at the beginning of the year as well as the following online resources:

1 Hour 15 Minutes (combined science) 1 Hour 45 Minutes (separate science)

• Kerboodle; this online resource requires a username and password that has already been issued to your son/daughter. If they have forgotten either of these they can see their teacher to reset it. On Kerboodle you can access topic checklists, animations and other revision materials.

• My GCSE Science; this is a bank of online video tutorials with practice GCSE questions. If your son/daughter has forgotten their username or password they can ask their teacher to reset it.

Key Topics for Revision

Length of Exam

Key Topics for Revision

The following topics will be covered in the listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.

Various

Holidays (Red book pg. 26-27, green book pg. 24-25)

• describing a past holiday

• describing how you normally spend your holidays

• the importance of holidays

Self and Relationship (Red book pg.71, green book pg. 65)

• description of family members

• how you get on with people

School (P. 138)

• subjects you study and your opinion

• describe uniform

• talk about rules – give you opinion about them

• what you did yesterday in school

• is homework important?

• past tense

• present tense

• key phrases for stating opinions and pros and cons

• agreement of adjectives

• me llevo bien con me peleo con

• agreement of adjectives

• colours and articles

• se debe/ está prohibido + infinitve

• past tense

• key phrases for stating opinions and pros and cons

Topic Grammar

Topic

Technology and Reading (Red book pg.71, green book pg. 65)

Local Area (Red book pg. 92-93, green book pg. 108)

• where you live

• what can do there

• pros and cons of living there

• what you have done recently in your area

• how you would like to change it

Hobbies and Interests (Red book pg. 92 – 93, green book pg. 86-87)

• how you spend your pocket money

• what you do in your free time

• films/TV/ sport/music

Celebrations (P.72)

• a recent celebration

• how you normally celebrate/ celebrations around the world.

Grammar

• uso … para + infinitive

• likes / dislikes

• present tense + depuis + time

• on peut/ on ne peut pas

• un avantage est que / un inconvénient est que

• past tense

• conditional tense

• present tense

• past tense + opinions in the past

• present tense

Key Topics for Revision

Christianity Beliefs/Practices

• the main Christian festivals –focus on Easter

• the concept of salvation and forgiveness

• creation and Genesis

Islamic Beliefs/Practices

• the division of Sunni and Shi’as

• the Six Articles of Faith in Sunni Islam

• the 5 roots of Usul-ad-Din in Shi’a Islam

• the nature of Allah Tawhid

Themes

• the existence of God; the design theory, the First Cause argument

• the concept of evil and Divine Revelation and Special Revelation; Miracles

• crime and punishment (retribution, deterrence etc)

• punishing criminals

• death penalty

Length of Exam 1 Hour

45 Minutes

• war and how to keep peace and the ideas of Just War theories

• knowing the key words and understanding the PQEE method

• knowing and being able to use quotations and revising quotes specifically from the Bible and the theorists we have studied are also key. Please also watch the news for any ethical, moral and religious debates. These can be used in the longer responses.

You must learn quotes from the religious texts. The quote book is on the Google Classroom as are all the topics above.