Y11 Mock Preparation Evening Mrs Temple Mr Runeckles
Importance of attendance
Looking after yourself in the next month and during your mock exams
What emotions are you feeling now?
Exams and times of higher than normal workload create pressure. Exams create a situations that make us feel uncomfortable, that change the way we feel, think and act. • Pressure is a normal human emotion • Everyone suffers from pressure at some time in their lives, will have experienced feeling under pressure, and will experience it again at some point • You can learn to manage pressure. Sometimes on your own but at times it is better to manage this with support from other people
What can/does pressure look and feel like? • Depression/negative feelings about yourself • Low levels of self confidence • Feeling alone and like it is just you suffering • Anxiety/tension/nervousness • Mood swings • Tiredness & headaches • Excessive or repeated worries or fear • Forgetfulness • Poor concentration • Anger • Lack of interest in studies despite efforts made • Changes in sleep or eating patterns • Avoidance of work – finding yourself repeatedly finding other things to do rather than the most important thing…. revision
If you are struggling then not doing anything is the worst thing you can do
You have a great team who can support and help you! How you can access the help & support on offer in school… • Lunchtime drop ins • Via email/face to face - form tutors/pastoral managers/company leaders • Through any other member of staff – Mrs Temple and Mr Woodcock • Using your parents (email in or contact staff for you) • Attend the master classes
It doesn’t matter how you ask, just ask if you need support! Remember the first step is the hardest, don’t wait and hope things will get better on their own ask for help and things can/will get better much quicker!
Mock exams- start in 3 weeks time! 17 DAYS
10 Steps to success
1. Get Organised
Your personal revision plan
Personal revision plan Use the tick lists and Knowledge organisers to chunk up your plan and make it manageable. Do not just write Biology etc..
Tick lists to help chunk it up • Be specific about which areas you wish to revise • Chose the areas of weakness first • When making your personal revision plan- space out your subjects and go back over them
Biology 1: Cell Biology Prokaryot 1 1 Section 1: Cell Structure Eukaryotic ic 1 2 Animal Plant Bacterial Cell Structure Function Cells Cells Cells Contains genetic information that 1 Nucleus Y Y controls the functions of the cell. 2 Cell Controls what enters and leaves the cell. Y Y Y membrane Where many cell activities and chemical 3 Cytoplasm Y Y Y reactions within the cell occur. 4 Mitochondria Provides energy from aerobic respiration . Y Y 5 Ribosome Synthesises (makes) proteins . Y Y Y 6 Chloroplast Where photosynthesis occurs. Y 7 Permanent Used to store water and other chemicals as Y vacuole cell sap . Strengthens and supports the cell. (Made 8 Cell wall Y Y of cellulose in plants.) A loop of DNA , not enclosed within a Section 2: Specialised Cells 9 DNA loop Y Section 3: Microscopy nucleus. Specialised Cell How structure relates to function The degree by which an object is enlarged . A small circle of DNA , may contain genes Acrosome contains enzyme to break into egg; tail to swim; many 22 10 Plasmid Y 13 Sperm cell Magnification = size of image__ associated with antibiotic resistance. mitochondria to provide energy to swim. Magnification size of real object 14 Nerve cell Long to transmit electrical impulses over a distance. 23 Resolution The ability of a microscope to distinguish detail . Contain protein fibres that can contract when energy is 15 Muscle cell 24 Light Basic microscope with a maximum magnification of available, making the cells shorter. microscope 1500x. Low resolution. Long extension to increase surface area for water and mineral 16 Root hair cell Microscope with a much higher magnification uptake; thin cell wall . 25 Electron (up to 500 000x) and resolving power than a light Waterproofed cell wall; cells are hollow to allow water to move 17 Xylem cell microscope microscope. This means that it can be used to through. study cells in much finer detail. Some cells have lots of mitochondria for active transport ; some Section 4: Orders of Magnitude 18 Phloem cell cells have very little cytoplasm for sugars to move through easily. Unit Prefix Size in metres Standard Form 26 Centimetre 10 -2 m 0.01m (cm) 27 Millimetre 10 -3 m 0.001m (mm) 10 -6 m 28 Micrometre 0.000001m ( μ m) 21 – Root 19 – 20 – Nerve 10 -9 m 29 Nanometre hair cell 0.000000001m Sperm cell cell (nm)
Knowledge Organisers: Examples from DHS
AFTER SCHOOL Master classes
When yr. 11 company groups have DEAR Tutor Group DEAR DAY 1 DEAR Day 2 KHU SGI-G24M Monday Wednesday MDa- U05L Monday Wednesday SST- G20M Monday Wednesday TPI-G18M Monday Wednesday JCa- F3 Monday Thursday RKN- S3 Monday Thursday JBe-G10s Tuesday Thursday MRe- G03s Tuesday Thursday STR-G14 Tuesday Thursday NBE-F1 Tuesday Thursday BCr-F37H Wednesday Thursday RDe-F31H Wednesday Thursday Gea+IFo-F32H Wednesday Thursday
2. Know your goals
3. Get Gritty
4. Stay healthy
5. Work Space
6. Avoid stressful people & situations “you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
7. Stay focused in lessons
8. Treat yourself
9. Use online resources
9. Use online resources- VLE
VLE Science
9. Use online resources
Revision resources
Another way to access subject resources: Via the website: School life Year 11 exam support
10. Look after your best revision guide
Look after ourselves- HAPPY • Be kind • Sleep well • Show gratitude • Believe in yourself • Don’t make excuses • Avoid social comparison • Let go of what can’t be changed • See failure as an opportunity • Think positively • Select friends that lift you up
How did yr. 11’s last year revise? • View the video here
Summary • Sleep, diet and exercise • Setting goals • Regular testing and practice questions • Plan it - space it out. • Keep asking ‘why’ to deepen understanding. • Build on what you know. • Explain the steps in your problem solving and thinking.
How do we develop self-regulation?
What are the lessons for how to self-regulate? 1. Set specific short-term goals (for example, Nathan executing his revision plan) ; 2. Adopt powerful strategies for reaching those goals (Nathan’s self -testing using flashcards) ; 3. Monitor performance for signs of progress (Nathan monitoring his progress by answering past questions) ; 4. Restructure your environment (Nathan changing his bedroom so it was fit for revision and learning) ; 5. Manage your time efficiently (Nathan giving himself an appropriate break) ; 6. Self-evaluate your methods (Nathan checking his revision plan at the end of his session) ; 7. Connect your actions to your results and then adapt what you do next (Nathan checking his revision plan, ticking, or not, appropriately before adapting his revision plan).
Steps to Success: Six Learning Strategies
Not Effective
Highlighting
Re-reading
Summarising Texts
Why? • Low challenge • Little thinking required • Makes you feel like you are ‘doing something’ – a false sense of accomplishment.
Very Effective
Retrieval Practice Recreate something you’ve learned in the past from your memory. • Retrieve the ideas and information a while after learning it in class or • from a book. It needs to be a little difficult to remember. You will be more likely to remember information later. • How? 1. Use practice questions or make your own. 2. Create flashcards and quizzes but not just for definitions – link the concepts. 3. Write down everything you know about a topic. 4. Sketch everything you know about a topic. CHECK FOR ACCURACY AFTER RETRIEVAL PRACTICE
Interleaving Do not study one idea, topic or type of problem for too long. • Instead, switch between different ideas, topics and problems as you learn. • This can help you to make connections between ideas. • How? 1. Create a revision timetable to plan your interleaving. 2. Do not spend too long on one topic, but do not switch topics too often either. 3. When you switch topics, question yourself about how they link together. 4. Go back over the ideas in a different order . Repeat this. IT’S DIFFICULT BUT IT WORKS!
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