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Lacon Childe School
Year11 GCSE Examination Revision 2016
How YOU can succeed!
“Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you’re
probably right”
Henry Ford
Key Stage 4
• Controlled Assessments
MFL (speaking and writing), English, Science CAU, Geography,
History
• Exams
• Results;
• Summer results into school on Wednesday 24th August, out to pupils on
Thursday 25th August
A helping hand – When the drugs
won’t work The Verve
• Gingko Biloba
short term memory/attentiveness
• Omega 3 (cod liver oil)
long term recall
• Echinacea
improves the immune system
• Water
take water into your exams / hydration all cells 70%
Common myths
• Don’t think that by sleeping with your
books under your pillow you will
miraculously learn the contents.
• Don’t rely on teddy bears and other ‘lucky
mascots’…..they know nothing!
Activity 1
Loci/Roman Room
method for memory
Remember
Forgetting
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5 min
20 min
1 hr
7 hrs
24 hrs 7 days
31
days
Awareness
Excuses, excuses, excuses
“The person who really wants to do
something finds a way; the other
person finds an excuse.” ~Author Unknown
PREPARATION :“Fail to prepare, prepare to fail”
• Create a revision area.
• Use wall space in
revision area to put up
notes.
• Have all necessary
equipment available,
including books,
revision guides.
PLAN :“I have a cunning plan.”
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Baldrick
PLAN your revision.
Copy of GCSE revision plan 2016.xlsx
Use a monthly, weekly planner.
Put in the dates of the exam.
Work backwards from these dates, count the days in
between and divide by the number of subjects.
• Plan to do between 1 and 2 hours per night.
• Split the time into 2/3/4 chunks.
Hedwig Von Restorff
• Jump
• Cut
• Run
• Fly
• Jump
• DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS
• Read
• Build
• Jump
• Lay
• Blow
• Grow
CHUNKING REVISION:• Revise one subject area for 25-30 mins.
• Have a short break, do something different.
• Revise another area of the same subject
• Revisit notes from a previous revision
session of a completely different subject for
15 mins
Why chunk revision?
• Von Restorff Effect
• Primacy – Recency
• Memorable
• Repetition
• Motivation
REVISION :“It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you
do it.”Bananarama & The Fun Boy Three
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Mind Map
Make a poster
Make a chart
Form revision groups
Make a diagram
Make a cartoon
Key notes/Cue cards
Surf revision site on the
Internet
• Record ideas on tape
• Say key ideas out loud
• Get someone to test you, better
still revise against a class mate
• Exchange ideas with a
friend/family
• Give a presentation over
breakfast
• Play background music
• Quizzes
Re-Decorate
• Use post it notes
around the house.
• Top of the stairs.
• Toilet door.
• Bedroom walls.
Key to revision
Transform not Transfer
The movement of blood around the body.
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How Blood Flows through the Human Heart
5 of 8 in Series: The Essentials of Biological Processes
Human hearts, as well as the hearts and circulatory
systems of some other mammals, are complex. They need
to have a higher blood pressure to get the blood circulated
throughout their entire bodies.Blood pressure is a force
that sends the blood through the circulatory system.
The structures of the human heart
The human heart has four chambers: two ventricles, each
of which is a muscular chamber that squeezes blood out of
the heart and into the blood vessels, and two atria, each of
which is a muscular chamber that drains and then squeezes
blood into the ventricles. The two atria reside at the top of
the heart; the two ventricles are at the bottom. And, the
heart is divided into left and right halves, so there is a left
atrium and left ventricle, as well as a right atrium and right
ventricle.
The reason that the heart is divided into halves is because
of the two-circuit circulatory system. The right side of the
heart can pump blood to the lungs, while the left side of
the heart pumps blood to the rest of the body. Blood goes
in both directions on each and every pump.
NO!
• “The best day of your life is the one on
which you decide your life is your own. No
apologies or excuses. No one to lean on,
rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an
amazing journey - and you alone are
responsible for the quality of it. This is the
day your life really begins.” ~Bob Moawad
“Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.”
Chinese proverb