Revision guide 3rd year 2018

Revision Guide

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Third Year

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The Golden Rules  Start Revision Early We don’t mean before sunrise, we mean that you need to start about 3-4 weeks ahead of the examinations. This avoids MASSED LEARNING (known to most of us as cramming).

1. Revise a topic for a maximum of 45 minutes (more than this and the ability of the brain to process information is significantly reduced).

2. Have lots of breaks.

3. Test yourself or get someone to test you and note your score/recall capability and what tripped you up.

4. Consider revising the same topic for 20-30 minutes the day after to check you remember it.

 Ensure a Social Media/Gadget Shut Down This will be tough for some of you but could be the make or break of your success in these examinations.

1. Switch off your mobile phone. Incoming calls, messages and social media notifications are just too tempting.

2. Turn off your computer and iPad too, unless you are visiting revision websites that have been recommended by your teachers or using resources you have made in class on your iPad. 3. Try to keep all devices off for the whole time you are working, then when you have a break you can turn them on again.

The Golden Rules 

Get help from friends and family

It’s often very useful and reassuring to get your parents, brothers and sisters or friends (study buddies) to be a part of your revision.

Ideas for involving others: 1. Get someone to test you on the topic you’ve just covered. They could ask you the questions you’ve been preparing for or listen while you try and remember the key terms.

2. Be the lecturer. Give a short lecture style presentation to someone.

3. Do a revision session with a study buddy? It can be really motivating to go through your revision journey with another student who is determined to make the most of their revision time like you. You can take notes together, complete past papers, test each other on key terms and play the revision games later in this booklet.

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Get organised

The best way to start revision is to spend your first session for each subject getting organised. The next page has some tips to help with everything you need to be an effective and organised learner.

How to be an effective learner 1. Make sure you have a revision list for each subject, your teacher may give you this or you may create one yourself.

2. Make sure that you have all the revision notes, guides, text books and website links you’ll need for each subject.

3. Highlight the topics in each subject that you are less confident in.

4. Sort out your folders, pens, highlighters and plastic wallets and other revision stationery.

5. Organise your revision space. You can’t work effectively in clutter and mess. Spend 5 or 10 minutes each day making sure things are filed and neat in the right places, this will help you find things again when you next come to revise.

6. Stick your revision timetable in a prominent place on or near your revision space.

On the next few pages you’ll find some tools that will really help you to organise and prepare your revision.

Conduct for Internal Examinations These are our School rules for taking Examinations, don’t worry you will soon get used to them.

All School Rules, including Dress Regulations, are to be strictly obeyed during the examination period.

Acquaint yourself with the dates, times and places of your examinations as shown on the timetable.

Arrive at your examination room ten minutes before your examination is due to begin. Do not be late!

You must use a black pen/ink for all of your written answers.

Revision notes, private reading, books and any other paperwork are not allowed in the examination room unless authorised. All books and papers must be moved well away from the examination desks before the examination begins.

Mobile phones are NOT allowed in the examination room. Please leave your phone in your locker.

Seating for all examinations will be in alphabetical order.

Check beforehand if you are allowed to use calculators in your examinations.

You must stay in the examination room until the end of the time allowed for your paper. You will not be allowed to leave the examination room early.

Observe the SILENCE signs throughout the School at all times.

All incidents of malpractice will be reported to the HOY.

Preparing for examinations -In School Subject

English

Maths

Physics

Chemistry

Biology

Geography

History

RS

Latin

Topics to be covered in the examination

What will the structure of the examination paper be like?

Revision that will be covered in lesson time

French

Spanish

German

Italian

Classical Civilisation

Art

D&T

Music

Computing

Drama

Preparing for examinations –At Home To help you to plan your revision sensibly it is important that you find out about times when you will not be able to revise and think about what subjects you might need to allow more time for than others.

Ask: •

Do you have any commitments in the week before the examinations?

• Do you have any regular commitments in the evenings or at weekends (e.g. music lessons, sports etc.)?

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Do you find any subject difficult, that you will have to spend more time on than others?

Revision Strategies

Strategy One – Reading and note making 1. Use highlighters to emphasise key points.

2. Use different coloured pens to make learning more memorable.

3. Use different coloured sheets for each subject. This helps for organisation.

4. Use plastic wallets to keep your sheets together and organised.

Strategy Two – Condense your notes onto REVISION FLASH CARDS When you transfer more detailed revision notes to flash cards you are aiming to try and recall all of the knowledge you need for answering examination questions from abbreviated notes such as key terms, dates questions or equations.

Flash cards are good for testing yourself on key terms or processes too.

You can put the answers or diagrams on the back so that you can check you are on track.

Strategy Three – Add some ART to make things vivid Adding your own pictures to some of your notes can be really helpful for knowledge recall. We are not talking awesome art, stick men will do!

An image is often easier to remember than text.

Revision Strategies Strategy Four: Voice Recordings Can Help For some making a voice recording of your revision notes can really help to embed the knowledge in your long-term memory. This method saves you having to read the information again and again and instead you hear it.

You can use your iPad or your phone.

You can then plug in your earphones and listen to your revision at any suitable time.

Strategy Five – The Revision Dice Game This one is for the final stages of your revision journey. When you’ve made revision sheets and flash cards, try something different and play a game.

Rules First choose which subject and topic you are playing with…

Then if you throw a:

1. Write down 5 key terms associated with the topic.

2. Draw a picture of a key process, theory or event to do with topic and label it accordingly.

3. Write a description or definition of the topic or a key term within it.

4. Invent an appropriate question about the topic which may be asked in the examination, write it down and answer it.

5. Do 2 minutes of flash card revision on the area that you find most difficult to remember.

6. Give a 2 minute mini-lecture on a key aspect of the topic.

Revision Timetables Making a revision timetable can be useful to plan your time. Use the template later in this booklet or use your own if you prefer.

Remember: 1. It is important that you have regular breaks in your revision.

2. REWARD YOURSELF. Make sure you have lots of things to look forward to during your revision programme.

3. Be Realistic – it is unlikely that you will be able to revise for long periods of time. Set yourself realistic targets.

4. You will concentrate better and learn more effectively if you are in a quiet comfortable environment. Think about where you are going to revise.

5. Rotate your sessions between your ‘best’ subjects and your least favourite subjects.

6. In each subject, make a list of those topics you don’t know quite so well and revise those first.

Mon 14 May

Tues 15 May

Weds 16 May

Thurs 17 May

Fri 18 May

Assembly

Group Base No Assembly

Group Base

Group Base No Assembly 1st and 2nd year examinations begin

Group Base

Evening

Evening

Evening

Evening

Evening

Sat 19 May

Sun 20 May

Morning

Morning

Afternoon

Afternoon

Evening

Evening

Mon 21 May

Tues 22 May

Wed 23 May

Thurs 24 May

Fri 25 May

Group Base No Assembly

Group Base No Assembly 1st and 2nd year examinations end

Group Base

Group Base Assembly

Group Base

Evening

Evening

Evening

Evening

Evening

Sat 26 May

Sun 27 May

Morning

Morning

Afternoon

Afternoon

Evening

Evening

Mon 28 May (Half-Term)

Tues 29 May (Half-Term)

Wed 30 May (Half-Term)

Thurs 31 May (Half-Term)

Fri 1 June (Half-Term)

Morning

Morning

Morning

Morning

Morning

Afternoon

Afternoon

Afternoon

Afternoon

Afternoon

Sat 2 June

Sun 3 June

Morning

Morning

Afternoon

Afternoon

Evening

Evening

Mon 4 June

Tues 5 June

Wed 6 June

Thurs 7 June

Fri 8 June

Group base No Assembly

Group base No Assembly

Group base Examinations begin

Group base No Assembly

Group base

Evening

Evening

Evening

Evening

Evening

Sat 9 June

Sun 10 June

Morning

Morning

Afternoon

Afternoon

Evening

Evening

Mon 11 June

Tues 12 June

Wed 13 June

Morning No Assembly

Morning No Assembly

Morning Group Base

Afternoon

Afternoon

Afternoon

Examinations are over – enjoy an evening off!

(A)

Wed 6 Jun

9.15 – 10.45

MATHEMATICS 1

11.15 – 12.45 MFL1 GERMAN & FRENCH Supervised Study 11.15 – 12.45 NON MFL1 FR & GE

(A)

Thu 7 Jun

Fri 8 Jun

94 73

2.15 – 3.45

THEATRE STUDIES

66

2.15 – 3.45

Supervised Study

101

9.15 – 10.45

HISTORY

NON THEATRE STUDIES

11.15 – 12.45 MFL1 SPANISH 11.15 – 12.45 2.00 – 3.30

(A)

167

Supervised Study NON MFL1 SPANISH

PHYSICS

9.15 – 10.45 COMPUTING 9.15 – 10.45

Supervised Study NON COMPUTING

11.15 – 12.45 LATIN

11.15 – 12.45

Supervised Study

2.00 – 3.30

ENGLISH

NON LATIN

9.15 – 10.45 GEOGRAPHY

167 73

11.15 – 12.45

MFL2 FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN

89 78

Supervised Study NON MFL2 / ITALIAN

H2

PJR

3-GE* 22

H2

SLL

MPW

H3

3A-2 22 GSW

H5

3B-2 22

H6

PJR

L2

Forms III-2 & III-5 3A/TS 18

H6

HKA

L1 L2

3/TS 18

H7

HKA

H2

H7

RPN

H10

RPN

3A-4 16 IR

M9

3B-4 18

M10

IR

JMB

H3

L4

Form III-7

Forms III-4, III-6 & III/8

3B/TS1 15 3B/TS2 15 HGH

H8

HGH

NJD

Revision (30mins) Written Paper (60 mins)

H10

L3

L4

Forms III-2 & III-3 Form III-4 3-1/HI 22 3-2/HI 19 3-3/HI 21 3*1/SP 23

3B-3 20

L3

Form II/3

Forms III-1 & III-7

JMB

3A-3 21

3*1/FR 19 3*2/FR 18 3*3/FR 17 3*4/FR 18 Revision (30mins) R&W Paper (60 mins) JVJ H3 SJBA H5 EFB H6 RLH H7

L1

H5

3*2/SP 22 3*3/SP 17

L7 Forms III/8 & III-6 surnames M-Z

Forms III-5 & III-6 surnames A-L 3-4/HI 21 DWF

H6

3-5/HI 20 RKP

H7

3-6/HI 21 NJD

H8

3*4/SP 11

3-7/HI 21 SB

H10

3-8/HI 22

H12

SB

Revision (30mins) R&W Paper (60 mins)

AJMS

3/CO1 22 3/CO2 22

3A/CO 23

3B/CO 22 GTB

H8

H5 H10

Forms III-1 & III-5

Forms III-2 & III-3

H2

PJM

3A/LA 15 41 JMM

GTB

H3

3B/LA 15 JMM

GTB

3-8/LA 11 CEG

H6

156

3-1/GY 22

3-2/GY 19

ESW H2

DMB

3-2/FR 19

3-3/FR 21

3-7/FR 21

3-8/FR 11

EFB H3

RLH H5

KRJ

JVJ

H2

H3

3-4/GE 9

H5

3-4/GY 21 ESW

H7

H8

foyer quietly by 1.50 3-5/GY 20 3-6/GY 21

3-7/GY 21

DMB H7

GPH

ESW

3-1/SP 22

3-4/SP 12

3C/SP 23

AJMS H7

GSPL H8

AJMS

H8

H10 H10

3-8/GY 22 LJG H12 3C/IL 18 SRP

H12

MFL2 Exam Format for FR, SP and IL: 30 mins Revision/ 60 mins R&W Paper MFL2 German Exam Format: 45mins Revision / 45 mins, R&W Paper

SLL H6

11

GPH

Forms III/8 & III-4

SPORTS HALL Please assemble in the Sports Hall

Unseen Poetry & Descriptive Writing

167

H14

Forms III-6 & III-7

H6 Forms III-6 & III-5 surnames F-L H7 Forms III-7 & III-5 surnames T-Z H8 Forms III/8 & III-3 surnames A-L

167 Note early start.

3-3/GY 21

H12 H18 & H19

H2 Forms III-1 & III-5 surnames A-E H3 Forms III-2 & III-3 surnames M-Z 126 H5 Forms III-4 & III-5 surnames A-E

11.15 – 12.45 MFL2 GERMAN 11.15 – 12.45

3B-1 24

H2 VBP H3 GSPL H5 EML H6 L1 Form III-1 L3 Form III-5 L4 Form III-6 L7 94 Forms III-2, III-3, III-7, III/8 L2 Form III-4 167 SPORTS HALL – Note early start. Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 1.50

(B)

Mon 11 Jun

3A-1 24

M6 Form III/8

1.45 – 3.15

BIOLOGY

167 SPORTS HALL Note VERY early start. Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 1.35 pm

9.15 – 10.45

MATHEMATICS 2

167 SPORTS HALL Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 9.05am

(B)

Tue 12 Jun

11.15 – 12.45 GAMES 2.15 – 3.45

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

167

(B)

9.15 – 10.45

41

Wed 13 Jun

CLASSICAL CIVILISATION

9.15 – 10.45

Supervised Study NON CLASS CIV

DESIGN & 11.15 – 12.45 TECHNOLOGY 11.15 – 12.45 Supervised Study NON D&T

2.00 – 3.30

CHEMISTRY

167 All Forms 3-1/RS 22 HEMS

H2

3/CC 21 CEG

H18

3-2/RS 19 RSK

H3

3-3/RS 21 3-4/RS 21 3-5/RS 20 CAL

H5

HEMS

H6

HEMS

3-6/RS 21

H7

RSK

H8

3-7/RS 21 3-8/RS 22 CAL H10

JGP

H12

3B/CC 20 JMM

H19

H2 Forms III-2 & III-1 surnames H-P

H6 Forms III-5 & III-7 surnames A-P H7 Forms III-6 & III-1 surnames R-Z H8 Forms III/8 & III-1 surnames A-B

126 H3 Forms III-3 & III-1 surnames C-G

H5 Forms III-4 & III-7 surnames R-Z

111 SPORTS HALL Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 11.05am 56

H2

Forms III-1 & III-3

H3

Forms III-2, III-7 & III/8

H5 Forms III-4, III-5

& III-6

167 SPORTS HALL Note early start. Please assemble in the Sports Hall foyer quietly by 1.50 pm

Good Luck

For more information, ideas and guidance please visit the study skills page of the school website.