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REVISION TIPS and EXAM TECHNIQUE

REVISION TIPS and EXAM TECHNIQUE. Mrs Richmond. How to be a successful reviser!. Go through the exam specification and highlight / mark it according to your current knowledge of each statement. Step 1: Know what you need to revise. Step 2: Start with your weakest areas.

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REVISION TIPS and EXAM TECHNIQUE

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  1. REVISION TIPS and EXAM TECHNIQUE Mrs Richmond

  2. How to be a successful reviser! • Go through the exam specification and highlight / mark it according to your current knowledge of each statement. Step 1: Know what you need to revise Step 2: Start with your weakest areas • Identify your weakest areas of knowledge. Find a section of the revision guide / textbook about that topic. Make notes on it. Seek help if you need to.

  3. How to be a successful reviser! Step 3: Move onto areas you are more confident with • Don’t be complacent with these. Use consolidation techniques to review the key points.

  4. How do you consolidate your work? transfer linear notes into visual notes: • annotated diagrams • mind maps • tables • story board • posters practise new skills make summaries of what you need to know: • key words • key ideas • key processes transfer visual notes into linear notes: • table • flow chart

  5. CONSOLIDATING EXAMPLE: NOTES (from pg 46 of Biology textbook): The lungs are a large pair of inflatable structures lying in the chest cavity. Air can pass into the lungs through the nose and along the trachea, bronchi and bronchioles. Each part of this airway is adapted to its function of allowing the passage of air. Finally the air reaches tiny, air-filled sacs called alveoli. The walls of the alveoli are the surface where the exchange of gases takes place. These notes could be converted into a flow chart OR a labelled diagram. Have a go!

  6. How to be a successful reviser! Step 3: Move onto areas you are more confident with • Don’t be complacent with these. Use consolidation techniques to review the key points. Step 4: Practice your knowledge and understanding by testing yourself • Try the practice questions in the textbook. Exam questions there too. Practice papers via the links on frog. Write a quiz and swap it with a friend. Record yourself talking through key ideas. Listen to it to check it.

  7. Other revision ideas • Make a revision time table – some people NEED the STRUCTURE!! • Posters • Mind maps • Different coloured paper/ink • Using mnemonics • Revision Cards • Make a revision booklet / revision guide / website / PowerPoint • Recording your notes on an audio device. Listen to them. • Revising with your friends(only if you’re confident they won’t distract you!) • Multimedia revising e.g. online quizzes, BiologyMad.com, Biology A level Apps(again only if you can trust yourself not to become distracted!)

  8. Exam technique Underline key parts of the question. Look at the number of marks available. Describe the changes in blood pressure from the arteries to the capillaries. [3]

  9. Exam technique • Describe the changes in blood pressure from the arteries to the capillaries. [3] • MARK SCHEME • Fluctuates/AW, in arteries • Amplitude declines • Declines from arteries to capillaries • No fluctuations in capillaries

  10. Exam technique Underline key parts of the question. Look at the number of marks available. b) Using information from the graph, describe the changes in blood pressure from the arteries to the capillaries. [4]

  11. Exam technique • MARK SCHEME • At least one mark must come from quoted figures. • Fluctuates/AW, in arteries • Figures quoted of peak and trough of fluctuation, with units • Amplitude declines • Declines from arteries to capillaries • Figures quoted of arterial BP and capillary BP, with units • No fluctuations in capillaries b) Using information from the graph, describe the changes in blood pressure from the arteries to the capillaries. [4]

  12. Exam technique Underline key parts of the question. Look at the number of marks available. c) Explain the changes in blood pressure from the arteries to the capillaries. [4]

  13. Exam technique c) Explain the changes in blood pressure from the arteries to the capillaries. [4] • MARK SCHEME • Peak of fluctuations refer to contractions of heart muscle / systole • Troughs of fluctuations refer to relaxation of heart muscle / diastole • Ref to elastic recoil effect • Decrease reflects distance from the heart • Decrease in capillaries due to increased surface area of capillaries

  14. Exam technique Underline key parts of the question. Look at the number of marks available. d) Explain why it is important that the blood pressure changes from the arteries to the capillaries. [3]

  15. Exam technique d) Explain why it is important that the blood pressure changes from the arteries to the capillaries. [3] • MARK SCHEME • Slows flow rate • To allow exchange (in capillaries) • Reduce likelihood of damage (to arterioles and capillaries) • Not as elastic as arteries • ACCEPT to prevent capillary bursting

  16. Exam technique Succeeding with long answer questions (5 or 6 marks)

  17. I would love to independently develop my writing skills to improve my QWC in Science. You need … SIX cess SOURCE: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/SIXCESS-Gaining-TOP-marks-for-QWC-in-Science-6212652/

  18. SIX SOURCE: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/SIXCESS-Gaining-TOP-marks-for-QWC-in-Science-6212652/ cess

  19. EXAM TECHNIQUE • Describe how the structure of an artery is related to its function. [6]  In your answer, you should use appropriate technical terms, spelt correctly.

  20. Identify at least 6 scientific key words For example. • Tunica intima • Tunica media • Tunica externa • Elastic fibres • Smooth muscle • Collagen • Endothelium Perhaps the structure part of the question first?

  21. Can you order the key words to allow you to make a mini plan • Tunica intima • Endothelium • Tunica media • Elastic fibres • Smooth muscle • Tunica externa • Collagen

  22. Model answer • Tunica intima is made of endothelium (single cell layer) • Endothelium is smooth to reduce friction • Tunica media is made of smooth muscle and elastic fibres • Elastic tissue stretches and recoils • To even out surges of pressure (from heart) • Smooth muscle can contract to maintain (high) pressure • Tunica externa is mainly collagen. • Collagen provides strength. Underline key words as you use them to highlight your good use of scientific vocabulary Always remember to Proof read your work

  23. [1] Actual mark scheme [5 max]

  24. EXAM TECHNIQUE When passing from the alveolus to red blood cells, oxygen diffuses through cell membranes. Describe how other molecules or ions cross a plasma (cell surface) membrane by active transport and facilitated diffusion. [6] You should refer to the structure of the plasma (cell surface) membrane in your answer.  In your answer, you should use appropriate technical terms, spelt correctly.

  25. [5 max] [1]

  26. GOOD LUCK!

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