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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

• ther 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

• wn 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

Section 1: Cell Structure Eukaryotic Prokaryot ic Cell Structure Function Animal Cells Plant Cells Bacterial Cells 1 Nucleus Contains genetic information that controls the functions of the cell. Y Y 2 Cell membrane Controls what enters and leaves the cell. Y Y Y 3 Cytoplasm Where many cell activities and chemical reactions within the cell occur. Y Y Y 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 vacuole Used to store water and other chemicals as cell sap. Y 8 Cell wall Strengthens and supports the cell. (Made

• f cellulose in plants.)

Y Y 9 DNA loop A loop of DNA, not enclosed within a nucleus. Y 10 Plasmid A small circle of DNA, may contain genes associated with antibiotic resistance. Y Biology 1: Cell Biology Section 2: Specialised Cells Specialised Cell How structure relates to function 13 Sperm cell Acrosome contains enzyme to break into egg; tail to swim; many mitochondria to provide energy to swim. 14 Nerve cell Long to transmit electrical impulses over a distance. 15 Muscle cell Contain protein fibres that can contract when energy is available, making the cells shorter. 16 Root hair cell Long extension to increase surface area for water and mineral uptake; thin cell wall. 17 Xylem cell Waterproofed cell wall; cells are hollow to allow water to move through. 18 Phloem cell Some cells have lots of mitochondria for active transport; some cells have very little cytoplasm for sugars to move through easily. Section 3: Microscopy 22 Magnification The degree by which an object is enlarged. Magnification = size of image__ size of real object 23 Resolution The ability of a microscope to distinguish detail. 24 Light microscope Basic microscope with a maximum magnification of

• 1500x. Low resolution.

25 Electron microscope Microscope with a much higher magnification (up to 500 000x) and resolving power than a light

• microscope. This means that it can be used to

study cells in much finer detail. 1 1 1 2 19 – Sperm cell 20 – Nerve cell 21 – Root hair cell Section 4: Orders of Magnitude Unit Prefix Size in metres Standard Form 26 Centimetre (cm) 0.01m 10-2m 27 Millimetre (mm) 0.001m 10-3m 28 Micrometre (μm) 0.000001m 10-6m 29 Nanometre (nm) 0.000000001m 10-9m

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?

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).

What are the lessons for how to self-regulate?

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!

Spaced Practice

• The opposite of cramming.
• Spread out your learning over a longer period of time.

How? 1. Plan in advance and spread out learning in the months and weeks before exams. 2. Set aside a bit of time every day. 3. Review information from each subject but not immediately afterwards – leave some time. 4. Do a little at a time. 5. Use the effective learning strategies during your spaced practice: retrieval, elaboration, concrete examples, dual coding and interleaving. IT’S DIFFICULT BUT IT WORKS!

Elaboration

• Explaining and describing ideas with

many details.

• Making connections between ideas that

you are learning.

• Making connections between what you

are learning and your own experiences.

Concrete Examples

• Using specific examples to explain abstract

ideas.

• To really understand an abstract idea you have

to connect it to something concrete.

Dual Coding

• Combine visual representations of ideas with

words that explain and describe the ideas.

• Having the same information in two formats

means that you have two ways of remembering the information later on.

“Memory is the residue of thought” Daniel Willingham