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Understand the content. Make sure you understand certain concepts, equations and how to do certain calculations, when you have to use each method, etc. There's really no way to escape this. I find the easiest way to be with a revision guide or a book that explains the steps clearly (I can give some recommendations, depending on your spec). For key concepts and equations you need to know, I think flashcards are also great and you can test ourself regularly. I also make a sort of booklet for all these things I need to understand: key rules and concepts. I also recommend going on youtube, some videos are quite good at explaining.
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Apply your knowledge. This is pretty much what maths is about, after all. Practice, practice, practice, I can't stress this enough. The more you practice, the more acquainted you'll get with certain types of questions, and the process you need to do to get to the answer will start coming to you almost automatically. I wouldn't recommend doing past papers because most teachers like to use these in lesson, so if you've done them before you won't benefit much from it. There are many books full of exercises for your specific spec though, so I would suggest you invest on one or find a good website online. I find websites such as maths genie and Hegarty maths useful.
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DON'T pick songs with lyrics, single most important rule. You'll get distracted very easily and get lost in the middle of your thought process or what you're writing.
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Picks songs that will help you concentrate. So don't pick songs that are too violent or active, but rather songs that would be more of a "background noise" for your revision and allow you to be in a calm state so you can work best.
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If you lack pace, choose songs with a set rhythm. This will subconsciously help your brain to respond to the work you're doing in a set pace as well, so it may help you to get stuff done.
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I wouldn't suggest making your playlist too short, make it long enough to last a revision session; or else the songs will start repeating and you'll soon find yourself bored of them while revising and out of motivation.
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Know your literary devices - metaphors, pathetic fallacy, caesura, you name it. Make flashcards for theses or something I've done and think works particularly well is to write them all in little pieces of paper (I did 65 in total, I didn't even know there were that many I was pretty shocked) and put them all in a cup. take pieces out at random and you have to say what it is and give an example, it'a a good way to test yourself.
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For the reading section of English language, practice is key, really. There are loads of practice papers and resources online that you can use for this.
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Get your head around the structure for each question and what you need to answer. This is really important, because you don't want to forget to mention context or language in a question, for example, and lose those precious marks. Make sure you know how long you should spend in each as well.
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For the writing section, mind the GAP - genre, audience and purpose. Make sure everything you write adds value to your piece and try to include as many devices as possible. Think about sentence structures, AFOREST, the type of vocabulary you use, the tense, the tone, sentence type, what effect you want it to have on the reader. Always plan before you start.
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For English literature I think mind maps are great - make one for every theme and character. Include key moments in the book and quotations, try to make links between events and concepts.
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For the plot, I think tables are really good. give a little box to each chapter and write a brief summary of what happens. leave some space around the page to add annotations about them, such as themes or characters or analysis.
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First project (60%) – whole of year 10 + first term of year 11
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Students (or in my case, the school) get to pick their own theme.
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My theme was “natural vs man-made”.
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Second project (40%) – from January to May in year 11
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Students are given a test paper from the exam board with 15 themes, we have to choose one to work on.
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Themes presented in the booklet are either words, pictures or small pieces of text representing a theme. These are quite broad and we have the freedom to interpret them as we like.
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Know your literary devices - metaphors, pathetic fallacy, caesura, you name it. Make flashcards for theses or something I've done and think works particularly well is to write them all in little pieces of paper (I did 65 in total, I didn't even know there were that many I was pretty shocked) and put them all in a cup. take pieces out at random and you have to say what it is and give an example, it'a a good way to test yourself.
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For the reading section of English language, practice is key, really. There are loads of practice papers and resources online that you can use for this.
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Get your head around the structure for each question and what you need to answer. This is really important, because you don't want to forget to mention context or language in a question, for example, and lose those precious marks. Make sure you know how long you should spend in each as well.
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For the writing section, mind the GAP - genre, audience and purpose. Make sure everything you write adds value to your piece and try to include as many devices as possible. Think about sentence structures, AFOREST, the type of vocabulary you use, the tense, the tone, sentence type, what effect you want it to have on the reader. Always plan before you start.
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For English literature I think mind maps are great - make one for every theme and character. Include key moments in the book and quotations, try to make links between events and concepts.
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For the plot, I think tables are really good. give a little box to each chapter and write a brief summary of what happens. leave some space around the page to add annotations about them, such as themes or characters or analysis.
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Write literary devices in little pieces of paper (so say, one piece saying "metaphor" another saying "enjambment", etc.) and put them all in a cup. take pieces out at random and you have to say what it is and give an example, it'a a good way to test yourself.
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Do practice questions and texts for the reading section of English language. There are loads of practice papers and resources online that you can use for this.
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For the writing section, practice writing texts of every genre - letter, article, speech, etc. Even if you don't write the whole text, practice making plans for the responses so you know how to organise your ideas.
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Revise sentence structures, AFOREST, the type of vocabulary you use, the tense, the tone, sentence type, what effect you want it to have on the reader for the writing. I would suggest using flashcards.
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For English literature I think mind maps are great - make one for every theme and character. Include key moments in the book and quotations, try to make links between events and concepts.
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For the plot, I think tables are really good. Make one column saying the chapter and leave the other blank so you can fill it in with the plot and key events for that chapter. Leave some space around the page to add annotations about them, such as themes or characters or analysis.
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