LINTON VILLAGE COLLEGE YEAR 11 EXAMINATION REVISION PROGRAMME 2018
INTRODUCTION TO PARENTS It is important that you son/daughter undertakes at least 25 hours of revision during the Easter holidays. This can be personalised to assist their individual learning style. A good balance of revision and leisure time is recommended. HOW YOU CAN HELP All children are different, so there is no single approach to how a parent can help, but here are some suggestions: DO Discuss with your child what will be involved in the revision period and what your role could be. Provide the environment necessary for success. Ideally, they need a quiet, well-lit place to study with interruptions kept to a minimum when they are working. Respond positively when they ask for help. Ask exactly how you can help and if you can t help immediately say when it is convenient. Give plenty of praise and encouragement, stay calm and don t expect too much. Keep them well supplied with food and drinks. Keep a low profile. Be prepared to listen when they want to talk about problems as everything becomes more emotional and heightened during the exam period. Encourage them to take regular breaks during long periods of revision. Encourage morning revision when the brain is more receptive and discourages studying right up to bedtime. DON T Make comparisons with brothers, sisters, their friends and so on. Unintentionally add to their worries by constantly mentioning the exams. Relate too much to when you were sitting exams at school or how you did your revision. Worry if their revision techniques seem strange or unusual. Make a battleground out of whether or not they listen to music when doing their revision. Distract them unnecessarily. Expect them to study all the time as taking some time out to relax will have a positive effect on their work. Please sign the revision sheet on the next page to indicate that your child has done at least the minimum 3 hours work per GCSE subject during the Easter holidays.
SUBJECT/TOPIC SIGNED SUBJECT/TOPIC SIGNED ENGLISH PHYSICS ENGLISH LITERATURE OPTION A MATHS OPTION B BIOLOGY OPTION C CHEMISTRY OPTION D
How do I Revise?
YOUR REVISION TIMETABLE This booklet has included a revision timetable grid from the first day of the Easter holidays until the day of the last exam. Work out a revision programme to visit your needs and learning style. Getrevising.co.uk is a very useful website for organising your personalised revision programme. Why have a revision timetable? To avoid a last minute rush the night before an exam. To set up a routine and discipline yourself. To share revision time between subjects. To keep up with your revision. To spread out your revision. To get the right balance between revision and leisure time. To avoid wasting time trying to decide what to do for each revision session. What goes wrong with timetables? There are 3 main reasons why timetables don t work out: 1. They are drawn up to cover many weeks ahead. 2. They are drawn up in too much detail. 3. They are over-ambitious and unrealistic. Timetables can work for everyone and a good timetable is one that strikes the right balance between flexibility and routine. Revision timetables are not meant to tie you down in a rigid way but can be an excellent tool to help guide you through your revision period. If you are like most students, you will never stick exactly to your timetables and when you don t it doesn t mean that your timetables aren t working. Allow yourself some flexibility and don t worry if you don t do everything you planned to do. Revision Leisure
DOING YOUR REVISION Active or passive revision? Active revision means involving your eyes, ears and hands in variety of ways. Revising actively is the best way to make sense of the material you are revising and also helps you to remember it. Active methods of revision include: writing revision notes GCSEPod using mind maps with key words for topics using small record cards to reduce topics to keywords/phrases reading notes aloud recording key points onto an ipad, MP3 or phone discussing topics with a friend testing yourself getting others to test you rewriting notes doing examples trying past papers using revision websites attending support clubs offered by your teachers Use the exam board website for resources and past papers: OCR: www.ocr.org.uk AQA: www.aqa.org.uk Edexcel: www.edexcel.com WJEC: www.wjec.co.uk Passively reading through your notes and books is a very poor method of revision. It doesn t help you to understand or remember what you are revising. Don t just sit there reading page after page until you get bored.
TOP TEN REVISION TIPS 1 Short bursts of revision (30-40 minutes) are most effective. Your concentration lapses after about an hour and you need to take a short break (5-10 minutes). 2 Find a quiet place to revise your bedroom, school or library refuse to be interrupted or distracted. 3 Make sure you don t just revise the subjects and topics you like. Work in your weaker ones as well. 4 Make your own revision notes because you will remember what you have written down more easily. Stick key notes to cupboards or doors so you can see them everyday. 5 Rewrite the key points of your revision notes; read them out loud to yourself. We remember more than twice as much of what we say aloud than of what we merely read. 6 Use different techniques. Make your own learning maps, use post-it notes to write key words on, create flash cards. Ask friends and family to test you. Use highlighter pens to mark important points. Chant or make up a rap song. 7 Practice on past exam papers or revision tests available on the web. Initially do one section at a time and progress to doing an entire paper against the clock. 8 You will need help at some stage, ask parents, older brothers and sisters, teachers or friends. If there is a teacher with whom you get on well at school ask for their e-mail address so you can clarify points you are unsure of whilst on study leave. Use websites specifically designed for revision. 9 Don t get stressed out! Eat properly and get lots of sleep! 10 Believe in yourself and be positive. If you think you can succeed you will; if you convince yourself that you will fail, that s what will probably happen
REVISION TIMETABLE DATE Monday 02 April 2017 TIME Tuesday 03 April 2017 Wednesday 04 April 2017 Thursday 05 April 2017 Friday 06 April 2017 Saturday 07 April 2017 Sunday 08 April 2017 Monday 09 April 2017 Tuesday 10 April 2017 Wednesday 11 April 2017 Thursday 12 April 2017 Friday 13 April 2017 Saturday 14 April 2017 Sunday 15 April 2017 Monday 16 April 2017 Tuesday 17 April 2017 Wednesday 18 April 2017 Thursday 19 April 2017 Friday 20 April 2017 Saturday 21 April 2017
DATE Sunday 22 April 2017 TIME Monday 23 April 2017 Tuesday 24 April 2017 Wednesday 25 April 2017 Thursday 26 April 2017 Friday 27 April 2017 Saturday 28 April 2017 Sunday 29 April 2017 Monday 30 April 2017 Tuesday 01 May 2017 Wednesday 02 May 2017 Thursday 03 May 2017 Friday 04 May 2017 Saturday 05 May 2017 Sunday 06 May 2017 Monday 07 May 2017 Tuesday 08 May 2017 Wednesday 09 May 2017 Thursday 10 May 2017 Friday 11 May 2017 Saturday 12 May 2017 Sunday 13 May 2017
DATE Monday 14 May 2017 TIME Tuesday 15 May 2017 Wednesday 16 May 2017 Thursday 17 May 2017 Friday 18 May 2017 Saturday 19 May 2017 Sunday 20 May 2017 Monday 21 May 2017 Tuesday 22 May 2017 Wednesday 23 May 2017 Thursday 24 May 2017 Friday 25 May 2017 Saturday 26 May 2017 Sunday 27 May 2017 Monday 28 May 2017 Tuesday 29 May 2017 Wednesday 30 May 2017 Thursday 31 May 2017 Friday 01 June 2017 Saturday 02 June 2017 Sunday 03 June 2017 Monday 04 June 2017
DATE Tuesday 05 June 2017 TIME Wednesday 06 June 2017 Thursday 07 June 2017 Friday 08 June 2017 Saturday 09 June 2017 Sunday 10 June 2017 Monday 11 June 2017 Tuesday 12 June 2017 Wednesday 13 June 2017 Thursday 14 June 2017 Friday 15 June 2017 Saturday 16 June 2017 Sunday 17 June 2017 Monday 18 June 2017 Tuesday 19 June 2017 Wednesday 20 June 2017 Thursday 21 June 2017