The Last push!!!

Grab those Grades

• Approx 700,000 Students in the UK taking their GCSEs

• 67% is the year on year pass rate
• 469000 Grade 4 and above only
• Will you get one?
 Grade Boundaries
• Grade boundaries change each year so that the same
number of students gain the grades each year.
• Its not about achieving a certain number of
marks to get a grade 4 or above, its about
making sure your marks are high enough to
be one of the 469000 students who will
qualify to achieve the grade 4.
 59% in mock
59% in mock = I know that all my
Got the grade I friends are trying to
need. grab those grades. I
just need to get 2023 – 59% need to make sure
59% again - Easy that I am in the race
too…

Dropped
a grade

2023 – 67%

Great
Student A onto my Student B
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Summarise
Download/collect your Revision
Timetable – in this guide
Organise your stationery and work
area
Revision Clocks
Create Flash Cards
Creating a Mind Map
Create revision Notes using the C
ornell Method
Dual coding: combine written text
with diagrams, sketches or visual
aids in your mind maps, clocks,
notes and flash cards
Save your resources in folders
by subjects
REVISION AT PILTON
Revise
Re create your mind map or
revision clock from memory: If
stuck re-look at the mind-map or
clock and redo in a different
colour. Start with a small section
then move to the whole thing
Retrieval Relay Race: Write as
1 2 much as you can about a topic in
box 1, read your notes for 5 mins,
4 3 add further info on the topic in
box 2. Repeat for box 3 and 4.
Have a friend or family member
test you with your flash cards
Create a Question and answers
sheet. Cover the answers and
write out your answer again.
Cover the question and rewrite
the question from the answer
BLURT out all that you know on a
topic in a set time – 10mins max.
Then refer to your revision guide
and add to them with a. different
colour pen. Any areas in a
different colour need revision
guides and a mind map
3
Test Yourself
Completing practice questions is the best
way to consolidate knowledge and identify
your gaps
Visit the exam board website
and download past papers.
Watch the video to see how to
do this
Complete the questions under
timed conditions. General rule
is 1 mark = 1 minute. Do this
for 15 minutes – 20 minutes
Mark your answers
Those questions you have not
answered well need to be
revised in the remaining session
time
After revising go back to the
questions and redo in a
different colour
Repeat
SUMMARISE
Reducing revision guides, notes, textbooks etc down to manageable
chunks. This should not be your whole revision focus. Creating
resources will not commit the knowledge to memory. It is only the
start…

FLASH CARDS REVISION CLOCKS

MINDMAPS

CORNELL NOTES
REVISE – ACTIVE RECALL
This is the process to
embed the knowledge
into your long term
memory. This is a critical
part of the revision
Re create your revision clock from memory: Take 2 colours of pen. Spend 5 process.
minutes completing each segment of your clock from memory. Check your notes
and take your second pen. Add in additional notes you missed first time around.
Combine with Dual coding ideas.

Retrieval Relay Race: Write as much as

you can about a topic in box 1, read Re create your mind map from memory: You have 3
your notes for 5 mins, add further info lives to recreate your mind map from memory. Each
on the topic in box 2. Repeat for box 3 time your are stuck you can refer back to your mind
and 4. map but you loose a life. After 3 lives you need to start
the mind-map from the beginning. There is a video on
the website modelling this technique.
Question and Answers
Create a series of
Questions and answers.
Cover the answers and BLURT out all that you know on a topic in a set time
write out your answer – 10mins max. Then refer to your revision guide
again. Cover the question and add to them with a different colour pen. Any
and rewrite the question areas in a different colour need further revision
from the answer resources created.

Have a friend or family member test you with your flash cards
TEST YOURSELF – EXAM QUESTIONS
Completing practice questions is the best way to apply the knowledge you have
learned. This embeds your understanding further. You also become familiar with
repeat questions and specific vocab that you will need to use.

Visit the exam Mark your answers using

board website Complete the the mark schemes. Pay
and download questions under attention to the answers
past papers. timed conditions. which you cannot
Watch the video General rule is 1 mark include. This allows you
on the website = 1 minute. Do this to refine your answers in
to see how to for 15 minutes – 20 the future.
do this. minutes.

Those questions you have

In your next revision
Repeat session return to these
questions and see if you
can now answer them
correctly.
not answered will need to be
revised in the remaining
session time from your
revision resources. You may
need to create some more or
add to your mind-maps.
 FIND PAST PAPERS
• DEMO
 Add after school revision sessions here

Stick to the subject suggested unless you have your own

plan

Write in the topic you will focus on during this sessions

4 sessions per weeknight. It is up to you when you

complete these each evening
Dates to Remember
• Starting next week – PE lessons suspended
and Maths / English master classes are starting
• Exams start 15 May
• Before every exam – Pre-exam focus session in
the Drama Hall
• Allowed to leave after the PM exam
• If not in an exam - in normal lessons
• Ensure you have revision materials
• Friday 16th June – Last day of full school days
• Wednesday 5th July Leavers breakfast assembly
 2 WEEKS UNTIL THE FIRST
EXAM
6 WEEKS OF SCHOOL
• Your exams and lessons will continue side by side.
• We will be changing the entire school day for all students to allow greater flexibility
and lessons/lunches easier for you to manage.
• YOUR LEARNING AND SUCCESS IS OUR PRIORITY.
• If you need help/support organising your revision then please let us know.
 STUDY LEAVE
Getting plenty of
• Let talk about “Study Leave”…
time between
• The exams are split evenly either side
of the May half term. the exams
• This means you will have more means less
opportunities to prepare for
assessments in your lessons. stress
• There are 24 exams running after the
May term (over half of your exams in
total) Finding out
• We know that in comparison students “Study Leave”
are far less likely to put the same time
and effort into work at home than in
isn’t a thing…
school. (no seriously)
CHANGES TO THE SCHOOL DAY
 FINAL DATE AND ASSEMBLY
• Your teachers will cover your lessons even if you finish the course.
• We will register your attendance in school until Friday 16th June.
• You will be allowed to sign shirts/hoodies if you wish.
• We will make our final decisions on who is invited to the prom and
tickets will go on sale.
• PROM TICKETS will be £32 a ticket (half price for FSM/PP
students)
PILTON YEAR 11 PROM 2023 – THURSDAY 6TH JULY
 How do I get a ticket?
We expect year 11 to act with maturity and maintain the following
expectations:
• No Truancy: Student must be in lessons when expected or
attending agreed meetings/interventions
• Good Behaviour: Student should not obtain more than 10
negative behaviour points – 1 RECORD = 1 Point
• Correct Uniform: Wear your leavers hoodies or correct uniform
on the correct days.
• No Inclusions/Exclusions: This INCLUDES any refusal to attend
after school detentions