A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

This is not about. Equipment Diet / Water Brain Gym

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

This is about . Strategy within the actual exam Strategy in the lead up months Strategy across the year

and hopefully strategy across other year groups

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

We must analyse the exam paper!!!

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

What are the particular aspects of your exam process that the pupils must address to be successful?
Knowledge Skills Concepts

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

Task: In pairs (preferably from unrelated subjects) use the exam paper or marking criteria to map out exactly what this means that they have to do

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

Now go back to your team and compare

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

How much of this knowledge are they able to use immediately? How are our pupils performing in each of these concepts or skills?

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

What we must do is find out or Diagnose early .. And Intervene!!! How can we do this?

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

What we must do is find out or Diagnose early .. And Intervene!!! How can we do this?

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

Intervention Cycle:
Assessment Diagnosis of Strengths & Weaknesses Intervention Session (Small Group / 20 Minutes / Didactic) Re-diagnosis Intervention

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

How can we diagnose this? How can we prepare for this in all lessons? How can we build this into Schemes of Work? How can we implement this in prior years?

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

Question Analysis: Type of Question: Short / Extended / Essay

EG. Social Sciences:

Command Word Domain Direction of the Domain Marks available

A Strategic Approach to Exam Preparation

EG: Geography There is enough food in the world but it is not all of the right kind or in the right places. Explain why these problems are difficult to solve EG: Science In an ecosystem an autotroph and heterotrophs are found. Explain how an autotroph is different from a heterotroph (2)

Top 10 Tips.
1. 2. 3. 4. Decipher exactly what it is the pupils have to know and do Put this into a framework in which the pupils can understand Build these into Schemes of Work and use in lower years Skills or Concept tests / practice / revision in lessons, per half term, per term 5. Comprehensive revision package indicating which aspects pupils will be studying in each session 6. Diagnose Intervene Re-diagnose . Cycle 7. Intervention which is in small groups, targeted and didactic in nature 8. Walking talking Mocks 9. Question analysis sessions within revision but also build these into everyday lessons and homework 10. Show them how to revise and ensure that there are elements they must be able to recall