At this time of year I am always reminded of this scene from my favourite BBC television series...... watch it and bear with me on this as it is relevant....ish!
For Year 10 the mock examinations are on the horizon and I am sure that some of you are starting to panic..... just a little bit, well don´t, you have all the necessary notes and your textbook New Wider World, now you just need to organise yourself effectively.
One of the most important things is to be confident with command terms that are commonly used in exams. These are not just important in geography but also in every exam and if you can understand what the word is asking you to do then answering the question is so much easier, well I think so anyway. Hopefully the following short video should help!
I should point out however that PEE doesnt mean what you think it does it means
Point
Explanation
Evidence
Explink (explain and link)
but of course you all knew that!
Since September 2008 when you started IGCSE Geography I have constantly been on your case about the importance of case studies, you need to ensure that when you start to revise that you have a relevant case study (sometimes you will need 2, an MEDC and a LEDC one)for every topic, without case studies to emphasise points you are unlikely to gain the top grades. A full list of all the case studies we have studied will be given out next week although it is up to you to produce revision notes on them.
Past papers are also one of the key building locks for succesful revision and a whole host of them will be handed out over the next week or two to help you.
Perhaps I am a bit sad but it is importnt to vary your revision techniques, and I know from bitter experience that staing at your books for hours on end is no good at all. Use digital media and load up some podcasts onto your ipod, no one will know, honest! BBC Bitesize has the best at the moment but I will tell you about others as I investigate them.
It might be a bit cheesybut a great way to relaz after a hrd day revising is to play a game, and here is the answer, Games 4 Geog.
Read through all your notes and then start to boil them down into one or two pages per topic, and then do it again reducing the information even further. This techniques is tried and tested and is proven to work......try it and find out.
And of course if all ese fails you could always revert to reading my rambling musings on the blog!
