2009 YEAR 10 SEM 2 EXAMINATION SCHEDULE

Study Roster

·          Unavoidable absences on the day will need to be covered by parental permission and/or a medical certificate. Each Learning Area will make their own arrangements to handle assessments for students who miss examinations. It may be expedient for students who miss an examination to come to school on Tuesday Nov 17 to catch up on sitting these examinations, for instance.

·          Get organised NOW by planning a study schedule to cover revision of all topics and texts covered thus far in each of these subjects. You should adopt active reading practices by making summaries or mind maps or explosion diagrams etc as you read over notes and text books. You should re-visit previous tests and assignments and certainly fill any gaps where you got certain questions wrong or could not complete any parts etc. This may involve re-reading notes or asking the teacher for assistance or thinking through how to better answer the question etc. You should then cover summaries, texts etc and practise getting all of this information out of your brain by saying definitions, formulas etc out aloud, getting another person to “test” you, attempting to pre-write answers for anticipated questions etc. In other words, try to demonstrate that you know the material before the exam which should alleviate some of their anxiety AND reduce the amount of think time in the actual examination.

·         Don’t think that merely looking over notes etc on the night before the examination is good preparation.