Preparing for the Semester 2 Exam - Year 8

1. Get Organised

2. Manage Your Time

3. Take Good Notes

4. Practice, Practice, Practice…..

Week What to do Tick

If completed

 Focus on Term 3 Chapter 10 Equations, prepare summary on

any important notes and formula.
4  Complete 2 or 3 questions from each exercise, and answer the
chapter review questions, There are also worksheets form the
textbook.

 Focus on Term 3 Chapter 13 Data Analysis, prepare summary on

any important notes and formula.
5  Complete 2 or 3 questions from each exercise, and answer the
chapter review questions. There are also worksheets form the
textbook.

 Focus on Term 4 Chapter 9 Measurement, prepare summary on

any important notes and formula.
6  Complete 2 or 3 questions from each exercise, and answer the
chapter review questions. There are also worksheets form the
textbook.

 Focus on Term 4 Chapter 14 & 12 Pythagoras Theorem and

Probability, prepare summary on any important notes and
formula.
7
Complete 2 or 3 questions from each exercise, and answer the
chapter review questions. There are also worksheets form the
textbook.

8  Complete past exams 2018 & 2019 Task 4

9  Monday 7th December 2020, Maths Task 4

Topics in the YE:

(Use this as a guideline & tick as you have completed the revision questions on
each Exercise)

Tick
UNITS TOPICS when
revised
TERM 3

10.2 Keeping equations balanced  

Data Analysis Equations

10.3 Using algebra to solve problems  

10.4 Equations with the unknown on both sides  
10.5 Quadratic equations  
13.2  Samples and populations  
13.3  Primary and secondary data  
13.4  Organising and displaying data  
13.5  Measures of centre and spread  
13.6  Analysing data  
9.2 Perimeter  
9.3 Circumference  
Area of rectangles, triangles,
Measurement

9.4  
parallelograms….
9.5 Area of a circle  
9.6 Area of trapeziums  
9.7 Volume of prisms and other solids  
TERM 4

9.8 Time  
9.9 24-hour clock and time zones  
14.2 Right-angled triangles  
Pythagoras'

14.3 Finding the hypotenuse  

theorem

14.4 Finding a shorter side  

14.5 Working with different units  
14.6 Composite shapes  
14.7 Pythagorean triads  
Probability scale  
Probability

12.2
12.3 Sample spaces and theoretical probability  
12.4 Complementary events  
12.5 Mutually exclusive and compound events  
12.6 Venn diagrams and two-way tables