Year 10 Revision
When it comes to revision it can be hard to get started. We want to help you develop and provide guidance in a range of areas, so you get the most out of your experience and get a head start ready for your summer examinations!
REVISION TIPS
- Start revising early. Months, not days before the exam. Make a timetable.
- Don’t spend ages making your notes look pretty. This is just wasting your time. For diagrams include all the details you need to learn, but don’t try to produce a work of art. Limit yourself to 2 or 3 colours!!
- Take short breaks. Every hour, not every 10 minutes.
- Be organised. Make sure you have revision materials.
- Stick revision notes all around your house. So when you are in the exam you think; “Aha, the quadratic equations, they were on the fridge!…..”
- Get yourself drinks and snacks. This will help you NOT to make excuses to stop every 10 minutes.
- Don’t turn yourself into a revision Zombie. It is really important that you keep time to do things you enjoy.
- Do lots of practice papers. This is especially important as you get close to the exams.
- Find the right environment to revise. NOT in front of the television, NOT listening to radio. and do not forget to put your phone away.
Revision Kit List
You MUST have the correct equipment for all your examinations. You can purchase items/exam ‘ready pencil cases’ from Health, Welfare and Reception at very reasonable costs.
| Pens at least two (black ink) | Pencils at least two | Set Squares |
| Eraser | Ruler | Protractor |
| Compass | Highlighters | Scientific Calculator |
| Pencil Sharpener | Clear Pencil Case |
GCSEPod can be used by students (they must make sure that they use the GCSE Combined Science OCR Gateway pages), as well as specimen and past questions which can be found on the OCR website and www.physicsandmathstutor.com. We look forward to seeing lots of students at help sessions with past questions that they need help with!
Please continue to support your child with learning Physics formulae and key definitions. Revision guides are still available from the Science Prep Room and help sessions 3.20pm-4.20pm every Friday.
Thank you for your support.- Revision guides These are available via Parentmail at a cost of £9 for combined Science (Higher or Foundation) or £12 for Separate Science which comes as a set of three.
- Help them to learn the Physics formulae They can attend the Science Help Session on Friday 3.20pm – 4.20pm to collect a formula sheet and set of flash cards. (We will even help them to make the flash cards). Please test them at home, just the same as you worked with them on spellings and times tables when they were at primary school.
Challenges to help with revision can be extremely helpful and assist with progress in readiness for the upcoming maths examinations. Please click the links below for daily questions/tests.
| Week 1 Challenge | Week 2 Challenge | Week 3 Challenge |
| Week 4 Challenge | Week 5 Challenge |
- Test them on key quotations from either the poems or the novels they have studied.
- Time them when they are answering exam style questions.
- Watch their Shakespeare play with them, ask them to explain key details.
- Encourage them to read good quality non-fiction texts e.g. newspapers and biographies.
- Use the topic checklists to make sure all areas of the specification have been reviewed.
- Check that your child is making revision materials for each unit – spider diagram, mind map, flash cards, poster, post it notes, lists.
- Encourage your child to read through notes regularly. Using colour pens to highlight and categorise can be useful.
- Ensure your child is doing 30-45 minutes revision at a time, properly concentrating – no phones, laptops, ipads, TV etc.
- Test your child using flash cards. Explaining things to other people helps them to remember.
- Ask them to tell you about the differences between High Income Countries, Low Income Countries, and Newly Industrialising Countries.
- Get your child to think about causes and consequences, and to make sure they are able to make choices and justify decisions.
- Use the exam board website – Eduqas. In the Geography GCSE section you will find sample exam papers and mark schemes. http://www.eduqas.co.uk/
qualifications/geography/gcse- b/
- Review the revision guides together click here
- Ask to see evidence of their wonderful flashcards they have made using the revision material on Moodle.
- Test their knowledge using the flash cards on each subtopic e.g. Individual Differences, Research Methods, Perception etc.
- Test their knowledge using the flash cards on symptoms and treatments for mental health disorder e.g. ADHD, phobias, schizophrenia, depression.
- Ask them to tell you about the most interesting type of treatment back in history for mental illness e.g. lobotomy or electric shock treatment.
- Time them when they are answering 6 mark exam style questions. Students should aim to write a side of A4 in 6 minutes for 6 mark evaluation questions. One mark per minute.
- Ask them to tell you about the most interesting Psychological study e.g. Diamond and Sigmundson, Zimbardo, Asch, Loftus and Palmer.
- Review the revision guide click here
- Ask to see evidence of their wonderful flashcards they have made using the revision material on Moodle.
- Test their knowledge using the flash cards on each subtopic e.g. family, education and crime.
- Time them when they are answering 24 mark exam style questions. Students should aim to write at least a side of A4 in 24 minutes for 24 mark evaluation questions. One mark per minute.
- Ask them to tell you about the most interesting sociological concept e.g. subcultures, self fulfilling prophecy, gender socialisation, triple shift, feral children, dark figure of crime.