Our Year 11 students have made an excellent start to their practice exams, demonstrating strong organisation and conducting themselves exceptionally well throughout.

With the half-term break falling between the two weeks of exams, we have been encouraging students to take some time away from studying to rest and recharge, while still maintaining a balanced approach to revision so they feel prepared for the second week of exams.

The From the Sidelines study hack provides a short overview of how to use a study planner to help organise revision and manage workload effectively.

For a more detailed discussion about exam stress and wellbeing, please listen to this podcast.

Science Sharepoint Site​

Students can access the Science Sharepoint site (linked here) and make use of the following key pages:

• Science practice exams analysis - here students can see an overview of their performance from their previous paper 1 science exams with Sparx codes for each topic. They can search for the Sparx codes through Sparx science to review their knowledge. This will also update once their next paper 1 has been completed and marked. 

• Subject pages contain a lot of key information:

• Practice paper questions - Lots of practice questions by topic with mark schemes so that students can practice knowledge retrieval and mark their work to see what they need to improve on.

• Quizzes - these are short quizzes related to topic areas. 

• Bump up your grade - these documents contain key information with questions which students can revise first and then complete the questions and mark. 

• Required practicals - access to information for each science required practical including videos.

• Revision by topic - contains exampro past paper questions and mark schemes. Summary sheets for topic areas and required practicals and PIXL knowledge sheets for information. 

• Whole past papers - access to full papers and mark schemes for students to complete in timed conditions to enhance exam practice.