8. By the time you reach this stage of the Fifths you should be able to self monitor. Motivation & Revision
9. The Great Enemy…….. Procrastination . “ To put off until a later occasion. To be slow to act.”
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12. Dealing With Procrastination Timetable your fixed hours and your recreation time. Make the recreation compulsory, NOT the revision work.
13. Dealing With Procrastination Focus on starting to work, not on how many hours each day. Only concentrate on a piece of work for 30 minutes to start with. Then record this achievement on your schedule and give yourself a reward.
14. Dealing With Procrastination Start as many 30 minutes periods as you can. The aim is get into the habit of “frequently starting” to revise. Only after some success with this approach should you gradually extend the study periods.
15. Dealing With Procrastination & Negativity Create a timetable. Establish how much of that time you can realistically work in. Work out how much time you have before your exams. Work towards the timetable.
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17. Between now and Easter. You have just 2 weekends and 9 school nights. How would you feel if you did no work other than your usual mediocre and half hearted attempts at your prep? How would you feel if you had done one extra 2 hour block each weekend and the expected 2 hours each night after school?
18. That would be 22 hours of exam preparation done before the Easter break even begins!
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23. MB’s schedule for the Easter break and study leave. . Maths Chem 20.00-20.45 Eng Biol 19.00-19.45 Chem DT 18.00-18.45 Biol Eng Biol 15.00-15.45 DT Chem DT 14.00-14.45 Geog Biol Geog 13.00-13.45 DT Geog Maths 11.00-11.45 Geog Maths Eng 10.00-10.45 Maths Eng Chem 9.00-9.45 Sunday Saturday Friday Thursday Wednesday Tuesday Monday
27. Edinburgh Academy Exam Rules. Take particular care to read Mr Fenton’s advice on Exam Rules. By disobeying rules set by the exam board you risk disqualification from ALL your subjects!
44. Exam Strategies Practical preparations: Check the time and venue Have the necessary equipment ready Emotional preparations Consider what might additionally help Memory considerations
45. Exam skills: Read the exam paper carefully. Note how many questions you are required to answer. Analyse carefully the precise wording of questions. Tick the questions you intend to answer. Make a rough timetable. Answer questions in the order: easiest, favourite, most difficult. So much of this comes down to knowing what to expect.
47. Time Management in Exams. We are going to look at the marks of 2 students in the same exam. The exam paper required 4 questions to be answered in 2 hours and 30 minutes and each question was allocated 25 marks - a total of 100 marks.
48. Time Management in Exams. 2 hours and 30 minutes = 150 minutes. 10 minutes to read the question paper leaves 140 minutes. 140/4 questions = 35 minutes for each question.
49. Time Management in Exams. Student A Q1 18 Q2 16 Q3 10 Q4 0 Total 44 Student B Q1 13 Q2 13 Q3 14 Q4 12 Total 52 The Scores on the Doors.
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51. After the exam: Don't indulge in post-mortems. Review what went well in your overall approach, before and during the exam, including the way you handled anxiety . Aim to improve upon that in the next exam.
