The document provides strategies and information for students to help them prepare for exams over the next 9 weeks. It recommends using time during weekends and holidays efficiently by dedicating 1-8 hours per day to revision. Specific techniques are suggested, such as creating practice tests, using revision guides like organized notebooks, and doing past papers to identify strengths and weaknesses. Less effective methods like highlighting and re-reading are discouraged in favor of active recall techniques involving testing oneself regularly.

1. Strategies for success…Strategies for success…
Passing Exams…Passing Exams…

2. From today there are 9 weeks9 weeks until
the bulk of the summer examinations
begin!
Including: 31 days31 days of weekends,
bank holidays, holidays and staff
training days.
We all need to know that…We all need to know that…

3. If I use my time wisely?If I use my time wisely?
1 hour per non school day = 31 hours
2 hours per non school day = 62 hours
4 hours per non school day = 124 hours
6 hours per non school day = 186 hours
8 hours per non school day = 248 hours

4. How could I divide up this time?How could I divide up this time?
Courses:Courses: Number of hours per subject:Number of hours per subject:
8 X GCSEs8 X GCSEs 2424
What about work on an evening?What about work on an evening?

5. KS5 A2 Exam Results: Headlines
Outstanding individual performances (excluding General Studies):
Student Grades
Jacob A*AAA
Ethan AAAA
James A*AAB
Mark A*AAC
Anya, Chris and Becky A*A*A
Jack, Oliver, Robert and Thomas A*AA
David A*AB
Elizabeth AAA
Oliver, Nathan, Kate and Sam AAB

6. KS5 A2 Exam Results: Headlines
Outstanding individual performances (excluding General Studies):
Student Grades
Amy A*A*A* [B]
Sam A*A*B [B]
Rhian ABB [C]
George AAB [B/C]
Erica BBB [C]
Edward BBB [B/C]
Samantha BBB [B/C]
Rachael CCC [C/D]

9. A*-U…TAKE YOUR PICK!A*-U…TAKE YOUR PICK!
Attitude!Attitude!

10. Not very
effective

11. Rewind 21 years
“ I did three hours of history revision
yesterday”
I read the textbook
I read my exercise book
I highlighted everything
I copied everything into a mind map
I watched the clock.

12. HighlightingHighlighting

13. Re-readingRe-reading

14. Why?
• Low challenge.
• Little thinking required.
• Makes you think that you are ‘doing
something’

16. 1. Practice Testing
Create multi-choice tests/gapfill
exercises/flashcards
www.quizlet.com
www.memrise.com
www.flashcards-chegg

17. www.quizlet.com

18. www.memrise.com

21. Flashcards+ cheggFlashcards+ chegg

22. 2. Revision Guides
The best revision guide is a well-
organised exercise book or folder

23. Maximising your exercise book
and coping with content
1. Content pages- checklists-
confidence index
2. Revisit notes/written work
3. Mind mapping

24. Contents pages
Benefits:
Organises topics for revision
Reviewing topics/ideas as you make the contents page
Confidence index- record on 1-5 scale how confident you are with
each topic

25. Revisit notesRevisit notes
Draw a column at one side of your page or use
the margin to enter key terms or questions.
Test yourself at a later date by covering the bulk
of their work and leaving yourself with key
terms to explain and define and questions to
answer.

26. Mind Mapping
Complete mind-maps on previous topics, without using
your books. This may identify what you know and
identify gaps in your knowledge.
Use your notes to fill the gaps in a different colour.
This conscious awareness of what you know and don’t
know will help learning stick, and will force you to
revise what you don’t know.

27. 3. Past Papers
Set aside 5 minutes at the start of the exam/past paper in which
the students aren’t allowed to answer the questions. Instead they
go through the paper from start to finish thinking about what
they need to do at what point.