Manor AcademyYr11 Parents Exam Preparation Event
Supporting your child during their examination year
Supporting your child during their examination year
Group Session 1 (6.05pm)
Session 2 (6.35pm)
Session 3 (7.05 pm)
Red Maths/Science English/Hums Examination Time
Blue English/Hums Examination Time Maths/Science
Green Examination Time Maths/Science English/Hums
Maths/Science - Mr Lyndon and Mrs Brennan in HOY
English Humanities – Miss Desforges and Mrs Varley in Ennis
Examination Time – Mr Cooper in Manor Hall
How are GCSEs assessed?
Command WordsExam Questions
Exam Techniques
After School Intervention Timetable (September – December)
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Science Engineering Geography English German
French Art History
German Health and Social Care
Sociology
Spanish Sport Business
New timetable will be issued in January
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Science Maths Sport English
Sociology Geography
Business History
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100% Attendance 95% - 99.9% 90% - 95% Below 90%
YEAR 11 AVERAGE PROGRESS 8 SCOREPREDICTED EXAM RESULTS
PROGRESS 8 MANOR TOTAL
Tips for parents – Setting them up for revision
• Ask your child how you can help them
• Help them get organised (files, dividers, wallcharts)
• Find out what support school is offering
• Choose one good revision aid per subject
• Help them plan a revision timetable
Tips for parents – Supporting your child doing revision
• Use praise and rewards to support them sticking to start and finish times
• Quietly topping up their ‘workbox’ Don’t get wound up about lost items and avoid arguments about pens and pencils aren’t worth it
• Provide favourite snacks and water
• Be flexible – if they want to go to social event on a revision night agree a time when they will make the time up
• Be sensitive to the pressure your child is feeling. Missing the odd session isn’t the end of the world when they are feeling stressed
• Check in when they are revising and don’t nag in between revision times
Revision techniques
The key for strong revision is to start early, to regularly revisit information… and to develop understanding of a topic, rather than just adding knowledge.
1. Elaborative interrogation - being able to explain a point or fact
2. Self-explanation - how a problem was solved
4. Condensing -writing summaries of texts
5. Highlighting/underlining
7. Keyword mnemonics -choosing a word to associate with information
6. Imagery - forming mental pictures while reading or listening
8. Re-reading
3. Practice testing - Self-testing to check knowledge - especially using flash cards
9. Distributed practice - spreading out study over time
10. Interleaved practice - switching between different kinds of problems
Types of revision techniques
Mind Maps
Imagine a Mind map is like a giant Spider’s Web with all the ideas around it.
The spider (or main idea) is in the middle and everything is around it.
The most important ideas are in the middle and the sub-topics go out further and further.
Imagine that Spider’s Web falling down and turning it into some kind of weird chain with the words concept map on it.
The spider can go backwards and forwards and around so he knows how ideas connect, but there are no sub-topics.
Concept Maps
Exam Practice
Exam Questions
Exam Papers
Parent Test
Improve the answer
Two ways to practice with cards:
1. Put the answers on the back, but you will need to remember more at once before you check
OR
2. Use a piece of paper and move down to reveal answers as you guess the contents.
Card Cover
Name three non renewable sources of fuel
OilCoalGas
Q & A
Devise questions and answers about a topic for other people and quiz each other.
You do a “Who wants to be a millionaire” game where the questions are graded according to the difficulty you choose.
100 Words
Students condense each topic into 100 words
5 W’s QuestionsAsk questions before you reviseanything.
Think about the topic to bestudied and take some time out tothink about the questions youwould like to have some-oneanswer for you.
Write them down and as you readthrough your notes jot down anyanswers you find.
The brain likes looking foranswers.
Post Its
Write information on post-it notes and place them on the wall, door, large sheets of paper etc. You can then rearrange them according to a variety of ideas:
• Group various things together• Organise them into what youknow and don’t know – rearrangeas you learn more• Follow trends or themes
Splat
Create a power point slide with all the key terms for a topic
Freeze the board
Two students stand at the front with a ruler
Another student defines the key term , first person to hit the correct words wins a point for their team
PicturesKey Terms Named Examples
Chunking
Chunking is breaking up a big piece of
information into smaller chunks
rather like steps in a ladder.
It can be used for numbers and
words.
Use bullet points to break up
information.
Key Themes
Revision Boxes
Use revision boxes to helpthem to summaries theinformation. Choose 4 areas ofa topic.
Put a title on each box.
Summarise the key pointsinside of the boxes, not in fullsentences.
Reasons for rapid globalisationTransport Consolidation
Conglomeration State-led investment
Footloose
Teleworking
Knowledge Economy
Human Development
Index
Purchasing Power Parity
(PPP)
Malthus prediction
Non-renewable
Demographic Transition
Model
Anti-natalistPolicy
Unit 2: People and the Planet
Consuming resources
Population Dynamics
The Challenges of an urban world
Development Dilemmas
Population Overpopulated
Natural increase
Birth rateDeath rate
Population balance
Fertility Rate Replacement
levelPopulation
policiesPro-natalist
Policy
Open-door approach
Migration
Renewable Sustainable
Food insecurity
Food security
Boserupprediction
Trade Black gold
Finite resource
Peak oil
Energy Security
Ecological Footprint
Hydrogen economy
Globalisation
Import
Export Gross Domestic Product (GDP)Outsource
Subsistence farmers
Industrialisation
Primary Sector
Secondary Sector
Tertiary Sector
Quaternary Sector
Globalisation
Transnational Companies
Interdependence Foreign direct
investment (FDI)
World Trade Organisation
(WTO)
The International Monetary Fund
(IMF)
Newly Industrialising
Country (NIC)
The New Economy
Sweatshops
DevelopmentDevelopment
indicators
Life expectancy
Poverty Line
Dependency RatioInfant
mortalityMaternal Mortality Literacy
rate
Development Gap
Rostow’stheory
Franks dependancy
theory Multiplier effect
Top-down development
Bottom-up developmentCore
Periphery
Biotechnology
Canary Wharf
Household income
The Domino Effect
Diversification
Deindustrialisation
Brownfield Site
Greenfield Site
The Changing Economy of the UK
Digital Economy Green employment
Flexible working
Urbanisation
MegacityRural to urban
Migration
Conurbation
Hyper-urbanisation
Formal Economy
Informal economyQuality of
life
Shanty Town
Key word sheets to write definitions and key
terms
Tips for parents – The exam period
• Encourage your child to keep positive, they will soon be on the other side of the ‘exam mountain’
• Try not to add to stress levels, pick your battles, now isn’t the time to discuss the untidy bedroom, leaving the washing up again.
• Help them to be prepared. What exams tomorrow? Where are they? What time? Equipment needed?
• Keep to routines – breakfast
• Remind then that you value and love them whatever happens and wish them good luck
• Adopt an attitude of tomorrow is another day if things haven’t gone to plan