!! DON'T PANIC !!
Recommended
GREENFIELD PUPILS ONLY
The
AQA History syllabus B GCSE Modern World exams are:
Wednesday
4 June,
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Internat'l Relations
Britain in WWII
Wednesday
11 June,
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America
Russia
Did You Know
Stalin comes up EVERY year -
GET HIM LEARNED!
Organise your revision:
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draw up A REVISION schedule of which
topics you are going to revise, when (then stick to it!).
Then, for each topic -
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Read the 'Basics' Factsheet on the topic:
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SCAN-READ the topic mini book on the topic:
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Don’t follow any of the links – just make sure you
understand the information.
Check you know the basic facts by doing the collapsible tests.
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Make sure you can DO the topic self-test:
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Print off a hard WORD copy of the revision sheet on that topic:
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Go away and try to learn it off by heart.
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Make sure that you are able to recount the story of all the Factual topics for the 'describe' questions – some of them WILL come up!
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Go to the Exemplar essays and see how to turn the facts and ideas you have learned into argued essays which answer the question – who knows, one of them may come up!
Links
... then visit these revision sites:
SchoolHistory - just FANTASTIC!
bbc Bitesize - lots of good stuff.
Revision spidergrams - great for pupils who prefer a visual way of revising
Revision maps - 'ground' the events in their geographical location on the map.
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Scott Allsop's podcasts
- Giles Hill's podcasts
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BBC Bitesize podcasts
Plus:
Good revision blog
Mr Ward's Top Ten Revision Tips - great ideas!
Mrs Stonehouse's 'Help Me Revise' ppt for pupils
Mrs Stonehouse's top revision tips
And if you're flagging:
History Games - don’t spend all your time on these! – but have fun and relax
but
don't just trust me – check your own exam timetable carefully
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