How to Answer Exam Questions and How To Revise

1. How to AnswerExam Questions and How To Revise BURGing& Command Words

2. B Command

3. U Key

4. R Data

5. G & check Go back

7. Command Words • State / Give / Name / Write down / Complete • Explain • Calculate • Suggest • Compare • Evaluate Click a command word to jump to how to answer it

8. State / Give / Name /Write down / Complete • These are recall questions. • You will need to have learnt these facts. • These question are all about your revision.

9. Explain • Brainstorm white hat facts in a circle map • Then put your ideas in order using a flow map. • Is there a cause and effect chain? Point Evidence Explain

10. How to revise? Flow Map

11. Calculate 15 • Ring the Data in the question • Substitute in the Data • (Simplify) • Rearrange • Calculate the answer • Add Units – No naked numbers ? 7 8 9 % √ 5 15 4 5 6 × ÷ 1 2 3 + - 0 00 . = X 15

12. Suggest • Your answers doesn’t have to be correct, just a possibility so… • Get creative with some green hat thinking • Justify your answers with white hat facts. Point Evidence Explain

13. Compare • Double Bubble the Facts • Introduction • Up to 3 similarities • Up to 3 differences Colin Caterpillar

14. How to revise? Double Bubble Similarity Difference Difference Thing or Idea 1 Thing or Idea 2 Similarity Difference Difference Similarity Difference Difference

15. Evaluate • Double Bubble the Facts • Up to 3 disadvantages • Introduction Aaddy Adder • Up to 3 advantages • Your opinion or a conclusion

16. How to revise? You could use a Matrix Map Advantages Disadvantages

17. 15 X 15 ? 7 8 9 % √ 4 5 6 × ÷ 5 15 1 2 3 + - 0 00 . =

18. Calculate 15 ? 7 8 9 % √ 5 15 4 5 6 × ÷ 1 2 3 + - 0 00 . = X 15

19. How to AnswerExam Questions and How To Revise BURGin & Command Words Mrs Applin Friday 26th January 2018

20. Summarise what you need to do for each stage:

21. What do the Command Terms mean?

22. What do the Command Terms mean?

24. Using Your Revision Guides • Identify your topic from your Progress Proforma • Look up a keyword from the topic title in the index • Actively read through the information on the pages, make notes condensing information into key statements or a mind map • Test your knowledge using the corresponding questions in the back half of the revision guide • Check you have fully understood it by answering some exam questions on this topic

25. Using Pixl Independence • Identify your topic from your Progress Proforma • Find the relevant topic in the list of booklets • Select the type of task that you would like to do that day (or a skill that you know you need to focus on) • Complete the task using the resources that are hyperlinked • Check your work against the answer bookelt

26. Using Pixl Concept Maps (knowledge acquisition tasks) • Identify your topic from your Progress Proforma • Find the relavent topic powerpoint in the folder • Select the demand that suits your current level (the more gaps the harder it will be) • Use the powerpoint in the same folder to help you fill the gaps • Check you have understood by completing some differentiated questions you could pick from: • Get Its (definitions of keywords) • Know Its (recall of knowledge) • Grasp Its (Application of knowledge) • Think Its (Application to new situations) 6. check your answers using the mark schemes and improve any errors

27. Using GCSE Pod / YouTube Videos • Identify your topic from your Progress Proforma • Browse or search a keyword from the topic • Select a pod to watch make notes condensing information into key statements or a mind map • Test your knowledge using the questions in the back of your revision guide, or by using the Pixl It Family questions.