Keywords LO: To understand exam technique and good revision skills Wednesday, 12 February 2020

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Exam Technique
What do you think makes a good student?

How many of those traits do you have? How could you improve?
 The ‘perfect’ Maths student,

When asked, this is

what your teachers
said makes a
‘perfect’ student!

These highlighted
topics we will look
at today
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ARE you ready…

First Tip: GET A CASIO fx87GT

Or the new ones FX99 Scan the QR code for
an interactive how to
use your calculator
guide.
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Document your errors

NMSPN
(Não misturar-se positiva e
negative – Do not mistake the
positives and negatives)

We kept a log of his errors each time he made one, but while
abroad for a few months (where he learnt Portuguese), he
came up with various acronyms for Portuguese phrases, that he
would write on relevant questions BEFORE he even started it!

Look at examiners reports from previous exams to see where the most
common mistakes are made.
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Document your errors

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s too early! us ed w
Rounding your answer it h neg
a t iv es

Common errors made

(even by your teachers)
kings
Not showing your wor
tion properly
Not reading the ques

Forgetting your units

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Utilise all the support avaliable

Corbett maths Maths Genie Dr frost maths

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Utilise all the support avaliable

Miss B resources Mr Barton maths

And don’t forget Hegarty!!

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Utilise all the support avaliable

Revision guides are available from the maths department
For £3.50

GCSE revision cards are also available.

For £7.50

Both foundation and higher

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Utilise all the support available

Revision Sessions – I highly

recommend taking advantage
of any opportunities you have
in school… who knows, the
questions covered in a revision
session may be the questions
that come up in the actual
GCSE
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Digital learning - Revision

Some ways you could use digital learning to aid your revision:
Create specialized revision cards on Use the resource websites.
Quizlet

Create a google site with all the key

information in for that topic plus
links to extra resources.

Look at previous work uploaded to

google classroom
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Papers, paper, papers

Past papers, past papers, past papers!
Although every year there will be a tricky question or two, the
vast majority of a GCSE maths paper is fairly predictable.
So by completing loads (if not all) the past papers, you will be
fully prepared for the majority of the questions… it will also
help you identify what topics are your “weaknesses” and will
let you know which videos and practice questions you will
need to work on next.
Also with the “problem solving” questions, even though the
ones you practise may not come up exactly the same, the skills
Timings – also when you are working
you apply to solve it when working on the past papers will on past papers, consider timing
really help you be prepared for the trickier question(s) in the yourself to make sure you are
working at a good pace. If the exam
actual GCSE. has 80 marks and is 1 hour
30 minutes long, “a minute a mark”
is a good rough guideline
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Know your mark schemes

You will more reliably answer an exam
question correctly if you know exactly where
the marks typically come from for that type of
question.
Read the marking guidance and marking codes
and the example mark scheme.
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Don’t rely on mark schemes

(While working on past paper) Cool beans. I know
I’m a bit stuck with this how to proceed with
part of the problem. this question now.

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(Finishes
practice
paper)
Wicked cool. I
got 85%. I feel
confident on
DOES
FAILS EXAM this material.
REAL
Joins the EXAM
circus.
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Create a - Cheat sheets

When do my first practice test in September of year 11, I allow myself to
bring in one sheet of A4 and use it whilst doing my exam at home. I am
allowed to write anything they want on it, but it is often covered with key
formulae and facts that they need to learn off by heart.
A month later, when I sit another test at home but this time with 1/2 a
sheet of A4.
A month later, a 1/4 a sheet of A4 and so on.
By creating a cheat sheet, you have to consider all the key facts that you
may need… then as the sheet of paper gets smaller, you have the challenge
of learning the material and also removing it from your cheat sheet. It’s a
great way to gradually learn lots of information.
Also you will have a handy sheet to bring with you on the walk to school
on the day of the actual GCSE
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Internalising key understanding

Quick bit of maths! Try finding the gradient of the following two
points in your head:
( − 2 , − 3 ) ,(− 8 , 9)
Answer:

If you plugged directly into the formula:
you would have had to contend with
various double negatives. It’s a faff and
prone to errors.
If however you went to the heart of what
gradient actually is (i.e. the change in per unit
change in ):
Then we can clearly see without the need for
subtraction that the value increases by 12 and
the value decreases by 6.
We get with much less effort.
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Your need to knows

Key formulae to remember Exam command words Conversions Geometrical Reasoning

And much more……

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Don’t waste time!

On average it is about a minute a mark! Do not spend ages answering a 1 mark question.
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Clear work

vs

Show ALL your work!

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Planning revision

Planning revision
You should be revising a little
bit every week.
Look at revising a range of
topics (some recent, some
from previous years, some
Red/amber topics).
And a variety of different
types of revision – practice
papers, revision guides,
workbooks, revision cards,
Hegarty, Memri etc…
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Variety – Mix up your revision, adding in different
activities… use the Corbettmaths Revision Cards or
the flash revision cards on Quizlet or even make your
own!
How about making a poster on the cube numbers to add
to your bedroom ceiling? How about using window pens
to write the Speed, Distance, Time triangle on your
window so you can learn while looking out the window?
How about baking some cupcakes and icing Pythagoras’
Theorem on them? It’s important that you don’t get
bored of revision, however don’t spend too long making
posters.
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Planning revision
You should be revising a little bit every week.

Look at revising a range of topics (some recent, some

from previous years, some Red/amber topics).

Memri is a great tool for recall to aid revision.

You should be doing about 20 questions on Hegarty a

week (depending on the quiz length that’s 2/3 quizzes a
week).

Use the QR code to look at an exemplar revision

timetable that you can fill in (make a copy of it first).
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How
to
revise
…..