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This is not about.
Equipment
Diet / Water
Brain Gym
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Preparation
This is about .
Strategy within the actual exam
Strategy in the lead up months
Strategy across the year
and hopefully strategy across otheryear groups
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We mustanalyse the exam paper!!!
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What are the particular aspects of your
exam process that the pupils must
address to be successful?
Knowledge
Skills
Concepts
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Task: In pairs (preferably from unrelatedsubjects) use the exam paper or marking
criteria to map out exactly what this
means that they have to do
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Now go back to yourteam and compare
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How much of this knowledge are they
able to use immediately?
How are our pupils performing in each of
these concepts or skills?
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What we must do is find out or
Diagnoseearly .. AndIntervene!!!
How can we do this?
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What we must do is find out or
Diagnoseearly .. AndIntervene!!!
How can we do this?
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Intervention Cycle:
Assessment
Diagnosis of Strengths & Weaknesses
Intervention Session
(Small Group / 20 Minutes / Didactic)
Re-diagnosis Intervention
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How can we diagnose this?
How can we prepare for this in all
lessons?
How can we build this into Schemes of
Work?
How can we implement this in prior
years?
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Question Analysis:
Type of Question: Short / Extended / Essay
EG. Social Sciences:
Command Word Domain
Direction of the Domain
Marks available
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EG: Geography
There is enough foodin the world but it is not all of
the rightkindor in the rightplaces. Explain whytheseproblems are difficultto solve
EG: Science
In an ecosystem an autotroph andheterotrophs are
found.
Explain howan autotroph is differentfrom a
heterotroph (2)
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Top 10 Tips.
1. Decipher exactly what it is the pupils have to know and do
2. Put this into a framework in which the pupils can understand
3. Build these into Schemes of Work and use in lower years
4. Skills or Concept tests / practice / revision in lessons, per half
term, per term
5. Comprehensive revision package indicating which aspects
pupils will be studying in each session6. Diagnose Intervene Re-diagnose . Cycle
7. Intervention which is in small groups, targeted and didactic
in nature
8. Walking talking Mocks
9. Question analysis sessions within revision but also buildthese into everyday lessons and homework
10. Show them how to revise and ensure that there are elements
they must be able to recall