Year 7-9 formal end of year exams. An opportunity to show what you can do. An opportunity to try...

Year 7-9 formal end of year exams.• An opportunity to show what you can do.• An opportunity to try your best! • Preparation for GCSE examinations in the future

The chance to shine!

Together we have the highest aspirations and expectations so that everyone achieves excellence in all they do and is equipped to lead happy and successful lives

RESPECT TRUST COMMITMENT

Preparing for your exams!!

Read your revision booklet.One of the most important things you need to do is learn how to remember things!!!!Try these next few tasks and see how good your memory is andif you can make it EVEN BETTER



Task 1- How do you remember things?

Read the following things and think about what helps you remember them

1) What is your best friend’s mobile number?2) How do you use a pencil sharpener?3) What was your first day at primary school like?4) What did you eat for lunch yesterday?5) How do you get to the nearest sweet shop?



Task 2- Check your memory style!!

Read through the following list for 2 minutesYour teacher will then blank the slide.Now write down how many things you can rememberThink about what helps you to remember them



Task 2

Sea merry PINK saucer circus LOG hobby EGG

cheese WINDY pong sneeze INDIA hand

JAM tutor kneel bread table BLUE hand

Book RED



Tiger

bananabutterfly

Task 3Think about three adverts ( from TV,Magazines, display boards etc)

What makes these three memorable to you?



Task4- chunking information!!

Nobel- prize winner Herbert Simon found that we can generally“hold” five “chunks” of information in our short-term memory.

These “ chunks” can vary enormously in size: it could bea single word or number, or a phrase, or a whole story.Try this on the next slide…..You should be able to rememberRoughly the same number of chunks, regardless of sizeEg: five sets of two words or five longer sentences!!!



Task 4…..Small chunks (2 words)Happy Birthday No SmokingNo entry Buckingham Palace Mouth-watering Photo albumNew Year Footpath

Bigger chunks (7-10 word sentence)There is no business like show businessOnce upon a time there were three little pigsSomewhere over the rainbow, was up highI hope you know what you are doingTo be or not to be, that is the questionPostman Pat and his black and white cat



Important to follow these rules for ALL exams Before the Exam• Some exams will take place in Bridgewater FLZ.• Others will take place in your classroom.• Check the timetable carefully • If the exam is in the hall then leave your belongings (coat &

bag) in your locker or in the store room ( in the purple garden)

• Come fully prepared with black pens, pencils, ruler, rubber etc in a clear plastic bag.

• Go for a comfort break BEFORE HAND.



Exams are either 9.00am or 11.30am• If the exam is at 9am, go immediately to the exam after form

time. • If the exam is at 11.30am then go to period 3 and register.

Then come down immediately. • Line up outside the venue.• Enter the exam hall in silence• Give in your mobile phone to the invigilator.



Important to follow these rules for ALL exams At the start of the exam• Sit in silence, facing the front.• Listen to instructions from Ms LordDuring the exam• If you have a question put your hand up and ASK!Remember that the invigilators or teachers cannot help you with the exam questions!



Important to follow these rules for ALL exams At the end of the exam• Continue to sit in silence as the exam papers are collected.• Wait for your row to be dismissed. Leave in silence.• Collect your mobile phone on your way out.



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