revision guide

1. REVISION
GUIDE 2023
YEAR 9

2. End-of-year Exam Revision Advice
Preparing for effective revision
Anyone can have goals but successful people have a plan.
• Reflect
Read the subject revision guides, highlighting each topic depending on your confidence levels as:
o Pink – Learning
o Yellow – Revising
o Green – Extending
• Plan
Create a revision timetable.
• Shop!
Make sure that you have everything you need to revise: textbooks, notes, flashcards, paper, pens,
highlighters, post-it notes.
Doing effective revision
• Be focused
Set up a quiet area for your studying. Put electronic devices in a different room. Set a countdown
timer for the length of your revision session and keep going until the timer goes off. Plan your breaks.
• Be active
Don’t just read through notes. See the next page for ideas on how to make revision active.
• Be thorough
If you find something that you don’t understand then do something about it – look it up, ask a friend,
ask your teacher.
Maximising exam performance
• Be calm
It will help to be on time with all equipment ready, including a water bottle.
• Be focused
Good sleep, food and exercise will help with this.
• Be aware
Read all the instructions before you start. Keep an eye on the time and make sure that you answer all
questions, particularly for essay subjects.

3. Ideas for making revision active
Notetaking
Just copying out notes will not help you! Try these approaches to notetaking.
1) Create a table of notes
Sub-topic Most important point 3 key things to remember
2) Make flashcards
o Questions on one side and answers on the other
o Key words on one side and definitions on the other
o Sub-topic on one side and three most important points on the other
3) Use Post-it notes
Write important points on post-it notes and stick them up on your wall.
Self-testing
Notes in the form of the three examples above can be used for self-testing:
1) Cover up one column and see if you can remember the contents.
2) Test yourself with the flashcards. Put the ones you get correct in one pile and the ones you get wrong
in another. Keep going through the ‘wrong’ pile in the same way until it is empty.
3) Organise the notes in different ways, such as ranking them from most to least important,
chronologically or by grouping them into different categories.
You will also self-test by redoing previous topic tests or completing practice questions given to you by your
teacher. This will only be effective if you complete these three stages:
COMPLETE IN
TEST
CONDITIONS
IMPROVE USING
YOUR NOTES
MARK AND
CORRECT
GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR EXAMS!

4. Easter and May half term revision
recommendations
We recommend starting your revision in the Easter holiday by completing 2 hours of revision per subject.
In term time after Easter set aside a little time each week to revise. Have specific times each week when you
do this and focus this time on the subjects which need some extra revision.
Then complete your revision by doing 2 hours per subject over the May half term break.
This still leaves plenty of time to have a rest and to relax in both holidays and it is important to do this too!
Recommendations:
• Follow your teachers’ advice and guidance about what and how to revise.
• Avoid leaving all your work until near the end of the holiday.
• Aim to get some revision done in the morning so that you can have guilt free time to relax in the
afternoon.
• Try to spread out your work so that you get to do two separate sessions on each subject at different
points in each holiday. This is called spaced practice and it helps you to remember more material.
.

5. A Guide to Summer Internal Examinations
The following information provides you with all the details that you will need for your summer internal
examinations at Colfe’s School. Please read it carefully.
EXAMINATION VENUES
During internal examinations week, you will be allocated an examination room. The table below shows the
rooms that will be in use:
EXAMINATION DAY/ TIMES
Each examination day is split into three sessions, session 1: 08:55-10:40, session 2: 11:05-12:50 and session
3: 13:50-15:35, with break time and lunchtime being at their normal times. Registration will also take place
as normal at 08:25 and 15:30. You must be in your allocated examination room at the start of each session.
TIMETABLES
Your examination timetable can be found in your year group team.
Make sure you read and understand your examination timetable. It is your responsibility to
know what examinations you have on each day.
REVISION
Revision lists are provided by each department and are contained within this leaflet. During the examination
week, you must plan ahead each evening to ensure that you have sufficient revision material at school for
the time prior to your examination starting.
EXAMINATION ROOM BEHAVIOUR/CONDUCT
Once you enter the examination room, you are expected to remain silent. You may have time before your
examination to revise but this must be conducted in silence.
While the examination is taking place, you must not communicate with any other students or ask out loud
for anything. If you need any assistance then simply put up your hand and the teacher will come to you.
You should remain silent whilst the examination papers are collected in and until you are dismissed by the
teacher.
TUTOR GROUP EXAMINATION ROOM
9A N1
9B N2
9C N3
9D N4
9E N5
9F N6
Extra Time Candidates 209 or 211
Computer Users T4

6. STATIONERY/CALCULATORS
You are responsible for bringing the right stationery/equipment to all of your examinations. Black ink
should be used to write in with pencils only being used for diagrams and rough notes. Do not use tippex or
erasable pens, simply cross through anything you do not want to be marked. Highlighter pens should not be
used to write answers, and all of your stationery should be contained within a clear pencil case.
You should have the following stationery:
• Clear pencil case
• Black pens
• Pencils
• Ruler
• Rubber
• Sharpener
• Highlighters
• Protractor
• Pair of compasses
• Colouring pencils
• Calculator
Calculators should be in good working order; please be prepared and bring your calculator to all
examinations which you might potentially need it for.
FOOD AND DRINK
You may bring a small bottle of water but no other type of drink is permitted. Food is not allowed into
the examination room, unless you have a medical condition that requires it.
CHEATING (MALPRACTICE)
Cheating in an examination is a serious offence and will usually lead to you being given a zero for your
examination. You will then be required to sit another examination during a Saturday detention.
The following are all types of cheating in an examination:
• Showing another student your examination paper
• Asking another student for an answer
• Having unauthorised material on you or your desk i.e. notes, mobile phones, calculator lids
• Having subject material written on your body
• Being in possession of a mobile phone, smartwatch, iPod, MP3/4 player, USB etc. (You should give
these to the teacher at the start of the session.)
Do not jeopardise all of your hard work during the year by cheating in an examination.
ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS
Students who are entitled to access arrangements such as extra time or a computer will sit their
examinations in the extra time room of which Ms Coode will be in charge.
If you have any queries with regards to access arrangements during internal examination week then please
speak to Ms Coode, Head of Learning Support, or contact her via email acoode@colfes.com.
LATE ARRIVAL

7. As usual, if you are going to be late for any reason, please contact the school on 020 8852 2283. Make
your way to school as quickly as you can and try not to panic. When you arrive at school, sign in at
reception and then go straight to your registration room or examination room, depending on the time.
Whilst you will be allowed to sit the examination, there is no guarantee that you will be allowed the full
amount of time, this will depend on how late you arrive, so make sure you are on time for all of your
examinations.
SICKNESS/ABSENCE
If you are unwell during internal examination week and are unable to attend school, your parents must
contact school in the usual way. Mr Snell will be in contact with you to arrange a time for you to catch up
on the examination(s) that you have missed so please check your emails. Most catch-up examinations will
take place the week after internal examination week.
TOILET BREAKS
Toilet breaks are an interruption to both you and others in the examination room, so you should plan to
go to the toilet before you enter the examination room. If you require a toilet break during your
examination, you must raise your hand and ask the invigilator. Please be aware that you forfeit the time it
takes to go to the toilet from your examination; it will not be added on to the end. Only one student at a
time will be permitted to go to the toilet during an examination.
EMERGENCY EVACUATION
In the event of the fire alarm sounding during an examination, it is essential that you listen to the
instructions given by the invigilator. You will be informed to stop writing and the examination will be
halted. Whilst evacuation takes place, you will still be under examination conditions, and you must not talk
to any other students during this time. Once it is safe to return to the building, the examination will
resume.
RESULTS
Results will be given to you during lessons the week following internal examination week, and they will be
included in your end-of-year report to your parents.

8. REVISION TOPICS AND HINTS
There are end-of-year exams in the subjects listed below.
NB: There is no formal examination for Art; assessment will be made in Art lessons.
BIOLOGY 1 hour 30 minutes
You will have ONE Biology exam this
summer.
The topics to be revised are:
• B1 Cell structure and transport
(pp. 2-25 in textbook).
• B2 Cell division
(pp.26-35 in textbook).
• B3 Organisation and the digestive
system
(pp.36-51 in textbook).
• B4 Organising animals
(pp.52-71 in textbook).
Other areas that can come up in the test:
• How Science Works and the required
practical work you have completed.
• Using a light microscope to observe,
draw and label cells (including scale or
magnification).
• Investigating the effect of a range of
concentrations of salt or sugar solutions
on the mass of plant tissue.
• Using standard food tests to identify
food groups.
• Investigating the effect of pH on the
rate of an enzyme controlled reaction.
Revision materials have been uploaded onto the
Year 9 Biology SharePoint page: Y9 GCSE Biology
resources
The Year 9 Biology SharePoint page (Y9 GCSE Biology
resources) includes the following materials to aid your
revision of chapters B1 to B4:
• Self-assessment sheets for each of the chapters.
• Revision maps for each of the chapters
• Answers to all textbook questions. This includes
the end of spread questions for each section of
each chapter, the summary questions at the end
of each chapter, and the practice questions at the
end of each chapter.
Revision strategies:
• Make short bullet-point notes (5-8 words)
• Draw and label diagrams with structure and function
• Highlight key words and points in both of the above
methods
• Construct Q-cards so someone can test you (one
question on the front, with the answer on the
back, of each card).
• You may also wish to practise past exam questions,
which can be found on the Physics and Maths
tutor website
(https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/biology-
revision/gcse-aqa/ ). Make sure you complete the
questions for Topic 1 and Topic 2 only.

9. CHEMISTRY 1 hour 30 minutes
Topics to be studied for the summer exam:
C1 – Atomic structure
• Atoms
• Chemical equations
• Separating mixtures
• Fractional distillation
• Paper chromatography
• History of the atom
• Structure of the atom
• Ions, atoms & isotopes
• Electronic structures
C2 – The periodic table
• Development of the Periodic Table
• Electronic structures & the Periodic Table
• Group 1 – Alkali metals
• Group 7 – Halogens
• Trends of reactivity
• Group 0 – Noble gases
• The Transition Metals
C3 – Structure and bonding
• States of matter
• Atoms to ions
• Ionic bonding
• Giant Ionic structures
• Covalent bonding
• Metallic bonding
• Structures of simple molecules
• Properties of giant covalent structures
• Fullerenes and graphene
• Properties of metallic bonding
C13 – The Earth’s atmosphere
• History of our atmosphere
• Our evolving atmosphere
• Greenhouse gases
• Global climate change
• Atmospheric pollutants
Other areas that can come up in the test:
Working Scientifically, the Practical Activities
you have completed and Demonstrations you
have observed.
Ideas for revision
Your revision should be active, completing both
retrieval practice (e.g. Educake) and application
(e.g. practice exam questions).
There are lots of resources on SharePoint, that
will help you: GCSE Chemistry resources
Go through the student checklist for each topic
(on SharePoint). The checklists are linked to the
specification.
Use revision cards to test yourself on key terms,
scientific words, ideas and equations. You can also
use these to learn your common ions.
You should be able to write word equations and
balanced chemical equations for all the reactions
you have seen and studied.
Make a mind-map, from memory, when you start
revising a specific topic (do not simply copy out
notes into a mind-map!).
Complete quizzes on websites such as Educake,
Seneca learning and BBC Bitesize.
Go through the summary and practice questions
at the end of each chapter of the textbook
(answers on SharePoint).
Revise the questions from your topic tests, paying
particular attention to the questions that you
answered incorrectly the first time around.
Use
https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/chemistry-
revision/gcse-aqa/
to find practice exam questions (instructions are
in the revision folder on SharePoint).

10. COMPUTER
SCIENCE
45 Minutes
The exam will take place
during the first lesson after
exam week.
Topics to be studied for
the summer exam:
• Data representation –
numbers (binary,
denary, hexadecimal),
text, images, sound.
• Binary addition
• Algorithms – Flow
diagrams, sequence,
selection, iteration,
finding errors.
• Python - strings,
variables, data types,
algorithms, inputs,
outputs, sequence,
selection, iteration.
• Physical Computing –
micro:bit components,
input and output
devices, Python
micro:bit programs –
predict and write.
• Media Animation – key
terms, tools used and
effects.
Ideas for revision:
Ideas for revision:
1) Use your Class Notebook to read through all the lesson and
homework resources.
2) Go through the key terms in each topic and re-watch any videos
from the lessons.
3) Look at the questions, answers and feedback from previous
assessments.
For each topic, you should make some:
Notes
Flash Cards - physical or on www.quizlet.com
Mind maps
Top tips:
• Play the binary game to practise binary to denary conversions
https://learningcontent.cisco.com/games/binary/index.html
• Play the ‘Flippy Bit’ game to practise converting hexadecimals
https://flippybitandtheattackofthehexadecimalsfrombase16.com/
The exam
You may use your calculator in the exam.
Your pencil case should have a pen, pencil, eraser, ruler and sharpener.

11. DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY 1 hour
Topics to be studied for the June exam:
• Materials and their working properties
• Papers and boards
• Woods
• Metals
• Plastics
• Textiles
• Ecological and social footprint
Ideas for revision
Use the resources and class slides on teams.
• Go through the specification for each topic
and class notes.
• Spider diagrams / mind map for
an overview of the topic
• Make short bullet-point notes (5-8
words)
• Use BBC bitesize – AQA website

12. DRAMA
Practical performance exam will be in
timetabled lessons in the fortnight leading up
to half term.
Written Evaluation before half term.
Topics to be tested
Performance
• Devising skills
Written
• Understanding of Stanislavski and Given
Circumstances
• Evaluation
You will be assessed on:
• Voice
• Movement
• Characterisation
• Communication
• Written communication
Ideas for revision
Performance
• Practise your lines and ensure that you have
learnt them thoroughly.
• Ensure you have a full understanding of your
piece, storyline and character. (You could
create a visual storyline, with added notes
on key themes and key moments of
characterisation of characters.)
• Bring in props and suggested costume to aid
your performance.
Written
• Stanislavski and Given Circumstances
• Strong analysis and evaluation
• Subject specific terminology (Create
flashcards for these)
• Review feedback and make sure you
understand it: What went well/ even better
if in your group and individually.

13. ENGLISH 1 hour 15 minutes
The exam will require you to write an extended
essay response to either a poem or a passage of
prose. (You will be given both options on the
paper.) The question will have 3 bullet points to
support your answering the question.
You will need to plan your response carefully and
include:
• An introduction
• 3 – 4 PEAEAR paragraphs (with 2 or more
pieces of evidence)
• A conclusion
Note: 30% of the end-of-year marks will come
from a piece of creative or transactional writing
produced in the first half of the summer term.
Your class teacher will set this as part of your
normal classwork / homework.
What to revise
1. PEAR (all elements)
2. How to write an introduction
3. How to write a conclusion
4. How to approach an unseen poem
5. How to approach an unseen passage of
prose
6. Literary terms, including:
• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• imagery
• onomatopoeia
• pathetic fallacy
• repetition
• theme
• enjambment
• caesura
• alliteration
• sibilance
• rhyme
• symbol
• narrator (types of narrators)
7. Spelling / grammar / punctuation
Ideas for revision
To revise PEAR, go through your previous
notes and the feedback form your teacher
on how to improve.
Practice planning unseen answers using
mindmaps – there are some past questions
in the Year 9 Resources area on Teams.
Make flashcards to test yourself on literary
terms

14. FRENCH
Exam: 1 hour 15 minutes for writing and
grammar reading
Listening and speaking will take place in
lessons.
Topics covered
Tricolore 1 modules 9 and 10 (listening and speaking)
Tricolore 2 modules 2, 7 and 8 (reading and writing)
Listening
You will be expected to listen to and understand a
number of spoken texts pertaining to the relevant topic
areas. You will give nonverbal answers.
Speaking
You will be issued with a speaking task by your teacher
in advance. This will consist of 10 pre-seen questions
on variety of tenses. You will be assessed on just five of
these. You will be awarded marks for accuracy,
pronunciation and accent.
Reading
You will need to cover the same vocabulary as you did
for the listening and will have to tackle a range of texts
in French.
Writing and Grammar
You will be required to produce a short passage of
written text on a combination of themes covered from
the above modules in Tricolour 2. You will be awarded
marks for content, range of language and accuracy.
There will also be some grammar exercises on the key
areas covered this year.
Ideas for revision
• Use revision booklet given out in class,
which covers all content.
• Continue to write, check and test
yourself on all vocabulary as well as
structures from this year.
• Practise speaking your answers aloud as
well as just in your head, so you get used
to the sound of your own voice speaking
in a foreign language. This will help your
intonation and your general confidence.
• Have a study buddy who tests you both
orally and in a written way.
• Revise the key language points covered in
this course and try to include them in
your writing exam.
For vocabulary learning, you can use:
• www.linguascope.com (check with your
teacher for the user name and password)
and,
• www.quizlet.com in order to revise
vocabulary and carry out fun revision
activities.

15. GEOGRAPHY 1 hour 15 minutes
Topics to be studied for the June exam
1. Living Worlds
• Local (pond/oak/hedge) and global (all biomes)
ecosystems
• Components of ecosystems
• Change in ecosystems
• Tropical Rainforest Ecosystems:
Location
Climate
Soils
Structure
Plant and animal adaptations
Causes and impacts of deforestation in
Malaysia
Managing Tropical Rainforests and
sustainability, including Ecotourism in Sarawak
• Cold Environments
Location
Polar and Tundra: climate, soils, plant and
animal adaptations
Svalbard case study: opportunities and
challenges
Threats to cold environments
Managing cold environments, including trans-
Alaskan pipeline and the Antarctic Treaty
2. China
• Understand the general geography and
climates within China including the maps
• Explain why China has become the factory of
the world
• Contrast the lifestyles of the rich and poor of
China
• China’s One Child policy
• Analyse how the growth of China is affecting
the environment and 3 Gorges Dam
3. The Challenge of Resource Management
• The global distribution of resources
• Provision of food in the UK
• Provision of energy in the UK
• Provision of water in the UK
Ideas for revision
Make sure your folder is up to date. If you have
work missing, you can’t revise properly. See your
teacher for help.
Use your topic summary sheets to identify
which areas you already understand and those
which you need to revise for.
Make sure that you can define and explain
key words – accurate use of terminology is very
important.
Make sure you can locate the areas we have
studied on a map.
Make sure your knowledge of case studies is
detailed - you need to demonstrate specific
locational detail in case study based answers.
Try making cue cards for case studies with key
facts and locations. Mind maps or spider diagrams
will also help summarise concepts and case studies.
Use all resources available on Sharepoint
https://colfes.sharepoint.com/sites/cs-
geography/SitePages/Year-9.aspx

16. GERMAN 1 hour 15 minutes
Your listening and speaking exams will take
place in the last week before May half term.
The reading, writing and grammar exams will
take place during exam week.
Topics
Chapters 1 – 5 from Echo Express:
1. Holidays
2. Shopping and Food
3. After School – Media
4. Health
5. Party and Celebrations
Key Grammar
Present Tense
Perfect Tense
Future Tense
Modal Verbs (müssen, wollen, dürfen)
Prepositions with Accusative and Dative
Weil-clauses
Um…zu clauses
Wenn clauses
Word order
Ideas for revision
Part of your revision will be done in class; the
rest will be done as homework.
• Make sure you have all vocabulary sheets.
• Vary your techniques for vocabulary revision
– use colours, pictures, rhyme, games,
writing, spelling, testing, etc.
• Make sure you know vocabulary both ways –
German to English and English to German.
• Make good use of the grammar section at
the back of your textbook.
• Use similar techniques for the grammar
(irregular verbs, endings) as you do for
vocabulary.
• Practise your oral questions in advance with
a friend or family member. (Focus on
content / quality of language and accuracy.)
• Use your Speaking Card Booklet and
Quizlet.com to practise questions and
suggested answers.
• Use:
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.linguascope.com
www.quizlet.com (Name of resource:
Colfe’s Year 9 German Speaking)

17. HISTORY 1 hour
Exam topics:
• British soldiers during WW1: morale
• Black servicemen in WW1
• Jewish people in Nazi Germany
• How Hitler became Chancellor in 1933
There will be two interpretations on one of the
above topics, and the following questions on them:
1. How does Interpretation A differ from
Interpretation B about….?
(4 marks) This requires you to look at the
content of the source only.
2. Why might the authors of Interpretation A and
B have a different interpretation about…?
(4 marks) This requires you to look at the
provenance of the source only.
3. Which interpretation do you find more
convincing about…?
(8 marks) This requires you to look at the
content of the source only.
There will be two other questions on the above
topics:
• Describe two features/problems
(4 marks)
• Which of the following was the most
important reason why Z happened?
- X reason
- Y reason
(12 marks + 4 marks for SPaG)
Ideas for revision
• Build factual knowledge by creating mind maps
with simple one-word, phrase, date, name,
quantity answers.
• Plan what evidence you would use on possible
mini essay questions and create bullet point
lists.
• Go over the advice from class about the
written techniques needed for source
questions.
• Use the History revision pack that will be
given to you separately by the History
Department to help you revise key content, as
well as familiarising yourself with the structure
of exam answers and question types.

18. LATIN 1 hour 15 minutes
Exam Structure
- There will be a mixture of
comprehension, translation and
grammar questions.
Grammar Covered
(You will receive a revision summary sheet from
your teacher.)
• Roles of the nominative / accusative / genitive
/ dative / ablative cases
• Prepositions which take the accusative and
ablative cases
• Singular and plural nouns in the 1st, 2nd and
3rd declensions
• Present / perfect / imperfect / pluperfect
tenses
• Perfect passive & deponent verbs
• Participles: present, perfect passive (PPP),
perfect active (PAP)
• Irregular verbs: sum, possum, volo, nolo
• Forms of the imperfect and pluperfect
subjunctive
• Pronouns: ego / tu / nos / vos
• hic, haec, hoc / ille, illa, illud / is, ea, id
• Adjectives: 2-1-2 adjectives like stultus, and
3rd declension adjectives like tristis;
comparatives and superlatives
• Relative clauses (qui, quae, quod)
• cum + subjunctive
• Purpose clauses
Vocabulary:
Use your Y9 vocab list. If you have misplaced this,
your teacher will supply another copy on request.
Ideas for revision
• Ensure you are able to distinguish and
accurately translate the endings of both nouns
and verbs.
• There are subtle differences between tenses –
make sure you remember this when you
translate and look for the clues (e.g. -ba- for
the imperfect and -era- for the pluperfect).
• You need to know the vocabulary really well:
make sure you revise little and often, and get
people to test you.
• Vary your revision techniques – use flash cards,
record your voice, make revision posters, mind
map ideas, play interactive games. Work out
the best way for you to revise effectively!
• Use Quizlet to improve your knowledge of
key vocabulary.
• Go over passages in the workbook to practise
your translation skills.
• Use the grammar reference tables at the back
of your booklet(s) to revise the constructions.
• Go over your SYU assessments from this year
and see if you can get everything right!
If you need additional help, ask your teacher for
advice.

19. MATHEMATICS 1 hour 30 minutes - Calculator
Topics examined will be those covered during the
whole of Year 9 (a knowledge of Year 7 & Year 8
topics may also be required) and will include:
• Geometric Reasoning
• Changing the Subject
• Percentage Change
• Representing Data
• Simultaneous Equations
• Area & Volume
• Drawing Graphs
• Compound Measures
• Similar Shapes
• Transformations
• Loci
• Expanding Brackets
• Indices
• Standard Form
• Linear Equations
• Inequalities
• Trigonometry
• Factorising
• Proof
The most effective way to learn Maths is to do
practice questions. In addition to the following
revision resources, pupils will be issued with a
revision booklet:
• Books 9H
SharePoint>Mathematics>KS3>Answer
Books
• Worksheets & Videos
SharePoint>Mathematics>KS3>Worksheets
& Videos
• Year 9 Test Revision
SharePoint>Mathematics>KS3>Year 9
• Elmwood Practice Tests
SharePoint>Mathematics>KS3>Practice
Tests
• Myimaths
http://www.myimaths.com
login = colfes
password = square
• Dr Frost
https://www.drfrostmaths.com/
login = "your email”
password = password123 unless changed

20. MUSIC 40 minutes (exam will take place in
lessons)
The exam will be in two sections:
SECTION A: LISTENING
This section includes three listening questions based
on the different musical styles studied this year. You
should revise key concepts and terminology for the
following:
• Popular Music
• Film Music
• Fusions
• Theme and Variations
This section also contains an extended writing
question in which you will be required to describe
music accurately according to musical elements and be
able to evaluate the effect of these musical elements
to create a certain mood/effect.
• Instrumentation/Sonority
• Rhythm/Metre/Tempo
• Dynamics
• Texture
• Melody
• Tonality
SECTION B: MUSICAL NOTATION
This section assesses your competence reading
musical notation. You should revise the following:
• Notes in treble clef
• Notes in bass clef
• Note values/durations
• Notating Triads
• Recognising articulation (staccato, slurs,
accents)
Ideas for revision:
All of the information you need to know for
each topic in the exam is in your workbook and
revision guide (distributed during revision
lessons).
Memorise the key words you need to know for
each topic. (We recommend creating flash
cards for this.) Your teacher will go over the
key vocabulary in class.
Visit https://www.musictheory.net/ for
resources that will help you practise reading the
treble and bass clef.
Visit www.nyphilkids.org or
www.philharmonia.co.uk/explore/instruments
for resources to help you practise identifying
instruments of the orchestra.
In the exam, you will hear unfamiliar short
extracts of music. You will need to be able to
describe how the composer has used each
musical element (instruments, tempo, dynamics,
texture, melody, rhythm and tonality). You
should practise by listening to short pieces of
music from each of the topics (easily found on
YouTube) and describing what you hear using
musical vocabulary.

21. PHYSICAL EDUCATION 45 minutes
This will be a test to determine your existing
knowledge of the following topics. The paper will
consist of GCSE past paper questions and will include
the following topics:
Anatomy and Physiology
• Muscle names and locations
• Bone names and locations
• The different types of muscles, e.g. voluntary
muscles and muscles pairs.
Short term effects of exercise
Aerobic and Anaerobic exercise
Methods of training
Components of fitness
• The different types of fitness, including the
types of fitness that we test you on during the
year
Ideas for revision
You will be given a revision guide with
all of the information that you need to
know and understand for the test.
During your practical PE and Games lessons,
you will have covered the topics mentioned in
class and through homework.
• Make sure you have all the homework
packs.
• Make sure you can define and explain
key words.
• Know the locations of joint/bones.
Revision tips
• Use Spider diagrams / mind maps for
an overview of the topic.
• Make short bullet-point notes (5-8
words).
• Draw and label diagrams with
structure and function.
• Highlight key words and points in both
of the above methods.
• Use Quizlet www.quizlet.com to assist
your revision on the topics.
Exam tips
Make sure that you back up your answers with
an example from sport, e.g.:
The Illinois agility run is a good test for
measuring agility. This would be useful for
games players to assess how quickly they can
change direction, to dodge around a player in
netball/rugby/hockey or football, for example.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Pupils will be required to create a
personal exercise programme (PEP) in
the exam.

22. PHYSICS 1 hour 30 minutes
Pupils will be tested on the GCSE topics which they
have been studying since November; the test will not
include the space topic from the start of the year.
You will need to revise chapters 3, 8, 9, 10
This includes:
• P8 Forces in balance
• P9 Motion
• P10 Forces and motion
• P3 Energy resources
Ideas for revision:
Condense your notes on each topic into short
bullet points.
Draw a mind map or spider diagram to organise
the facts for each topic.
Go through the end of topic tests to make sure
you can do all the answers correctly.
Work through the revision exercises which
your Physics teacher will give you.
Use the practice questions from the end of
each double page spread in the textbook.
Complete quizzes on websites such as Educake,
Seneca learning, mygcsescience and BBC
Bitesize.
Go through the summary practice questions at
the end of each chapter of the textbook
(answers on SharePoint in GCSE resources)
Revise the questions in your topic tests and pay
particular attention to those you got wrong the
first time.
Use https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/ to
find practice exam questions.

23. RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY 1 hour 30 minutes
Topics
Buddhism:
• 4 Noble Truths
• Noble Eightfold Path
• Five Precepts
• Impermanence
• Interdependence
Islam:
• Key beliefs (e.g. Six Articles of Faith)
• 5 pillars – name, description and explanation
• Hajj (pilgrimage) in detail – places visited,
rituals performed and meaning behind each.
Philosophy of Religion:
• Paley
• Feuerbach
• Pascal
• Trust
• End of unit assessment essay
New Philosophical Movements:
• Hobbes and Rousseau on human nature
• Rawls on the veil of ignorance and a fair
society
• Perry and Žižek on masculinity
• Kendall and hook on intersectional feminism
• Judith Jarvis Thomson and Robert Nozick on
discrimination
Ideas for revision:
• Revise and learn notes in RP exercise
book.
• Practise giving short explanations of key
words and phrases.
• Create spider diagrams of the main
points of each topic.
• Think about what things mean, what
they represent, symbolism and
metaphors.
• Learn key terms. (Flashcards are a
helpful way to learn these.)
• Talk about it with your friends.
There is no revision pack so you will need
your exercise book(s) and/or the internet!

24. SPANISH 1 hour 15 minutes
Grammar:
ser/estar
pp.20, 162
soler
pp.20, 166
present continuous
pp.22, 162
to have to, must
pp.23, 85, 167
radical changing verbs
pp.25, 30, 162
large numbers
p.26
singular and plural articles
pp.36, 168
demonstrative adjectives
pp.40, 158
quedarse (bien)
p.41
comparative and superlative
pp.43, 46, 169
gustar + similar verbs
pp.52, 168
direct object pronouns
pp.54, 167
preterite tense – regular and irregular verbs
pp.56, 163
imperfect tense
pp.8, 38, 39, 46, 58, 164
prepositions ‘a’ and ‘de’
pp.68, 160, 76
relative pronoun ‘que’
pp.69, 160
immediate future tense
pp.13, 70-71, 164
question words
pp.72, 168
adverbs
pp.75, 169
frequency words
pp.84
reflexive verbs
pp.86, 165
(Continued on next page)
Ideas for revision:
• Revise vocabulary from all the units you
have covered (1A to 3A).
• Make sure you have all your notes up to
date and make good use of them.
• Vary your techniques for vocabulary
revision – use mini flashcards, concertina,
record on your phone, colours, pictures,
rhyme, games, writing, spelling, “look, cover
check”, testing, Quizlet etc.
• Make sure you know vocabulary both ways
– Spanish to English and English to Spanish.
• Use similar techniques for the grammar
(irregular verbs, endings) as you do for
vocabulary.
• Use the grammar video links on Firefly and
explore what there is on YouTube.
• Make sure your learning aids are complete
with examples of grammar in context.
• Ensure you understand all language for the
listening and reading papers and that you
can produce it accurately in the writing and
speaking exams.
• Use the Labolengua, Extra Star, Extra Plus
and Prueba sections at the end of each unit
to recap and test yourself.

25. SPANISH Contd…
imperatives
pp.77, 166
frequency words
p.84
reflexive verbs in past and present tenses
pp.86, 165
doler
p.88
impersonal ‘se’
pp.90, 167
See also the links on Firefly with videos as well
as your own notes.
Vocabulary for units 0-3A
Unit 1A – p.35
Unit 1B – p.51
Unit 2A – p.67
Unit 2B – p.83
Unit 3A – p.99