Study tips and websites for those with children in Y11

Thank you Portico. Your kind words are really appreciated. Even more so because I have just been diagnosed with Shingles AGAIN! Not good timing at all!

This is a useful diagnostic for Ed Excel Maths. It is their International Lower Secondary Curriculum Mathematics. It is pitched at UK Y9 age, but covers a lot of Ed Excel, and may be useful at Foundation level.

Downside, it is one paper, so no separate calc/non calc papers. Useful diagnostic.

qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-international-lower-secondary-curriculum/maths.coursematerials.html#filterQuery=Pearson-UK:Category%2FExam-materials

For anyone doing Edexcel RS Unit 3 and 10 Mr McMillan on YouTube is good. He also has good revision techniques

The York Revision Notes, and the Hodder Evision notes are good for AQA Lit.

I am starting to get impressed with Cambridge Press AQA GCSE Eng Lang books. I am pretty sure their Eng Lit books would be just as accessible. I will try those soon.

Hi cat0115

I note you stated you were marking scripts. This level of commitment in holidays is indicative of all teachers. I have always saluted and recognised the great contribution of all teachers.

This is wonderful and I wished all parents recognise the out of working hours time teachers spend on marking and prep work. I am pretty sure in other countries teachers are more revered than here in England.

Apologies for typos.
Currently marking Lit mock scripts in a freeeeezing house so fingers are blue!

....and for unseen poetry students need to get their timings right... (AQA) unseen no. 1 is worth 24 marks so write three times the amount for this than the 8 marker which comes last on this 165 min paper. These tyoes of unseens can and should be practised regularly. Find a poem on poemhunter.com and formulate a question using the word 'How...?'.E.g. In the poem 'Anne Hathaway by C.A.D How does the poet convey her ideas about love'.

To revise essay structure for higher grades make sure they use key phrases and terminology: '....'quotation'....Shakespeare's use of this metaohor here suggest to the audience that....'(So student has made reference to text, used key term to reference writer method,shown understanding that the writer made a choice and what the impact on an audience might be (or reader).

For any text (Lit): group quotations into ideas in the order that they appear in the text. Then write them up on to large pieces of paper and stick them up around the house. As you pass it,say it aloud. To revise further get someone else to say the first part and then student has to finish it. E.g. 'Fair is foul......'. Quotation then learnt x 4 (read/write/recite/recall).

Scrooge Macbeth etc there was a great write up on this on line via google. There is also revision guides for these subjects

Great ideas here. I'm watching this. 😊 Pin Terest have great revision stuff too mind maps. And Memrise is great.
Does anyone know of any revision methods for science ( additional)
Thanks x

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Very useful, thank you.

Thankyou for this thread, really helpful.

Would appreciate any recommendations on English lit revision (Inspector calls, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol) and how to revise for the unseen poetry exam as this really phases dd.

Any recommendations on how to revise for English lit - Shakespeare and novel?

Thank you all, for the help and information DS doing revision through the Easter holidays and this is so helpful

Thankyou place marking 😊

There are some more 9-1 maths resources here you have to pay for the solutions though.

Yes, I missed the last couple of posts but thanks for the handy MFL tips (it's German so it should be pretty straightforward to learn how to hear the difference between vowels with and without umlauts).

I just want to give noblegiraffe and everyone else who has posted such great advice on this thread a huge big old hug and thank you.

With MFL, the best way to improve listening skills is extensive listening ie lots of listening in the background. Get them to watch movies in the language (with English subtitles is fine, or original language better, so they get used to the sound of the language and where one word ends and another begins). Listen to pop music from the country, listen to local radion, anything so long as there is lots and lots of it. After a few weeks of this before my O Level, I started dreaming in the language!

For remembering details, not sure what will work better than the old look, cover, say check routine, ie testing themselves, or they can get a helpful parent to read out English translations of words they want to memorise, and then write down the foreign language equivalent and check the gender and spelling of the word as well as the word itself are correct.

Also, try writing longer written texts and check them against google translate if no better users of the language at home. Whilst this won't pick up all errors or provide a perfect translation, it should flag up some errors, which they can then look up. Using google translate to translate the English translation back into the foreign language should provide another check of the text originally written.

Which language SUPREME? When you learn the word the gender and the accents need to be part of the learning process. A ü is a different letter from a u, it makes a different sound when you say the word, so it part of the spelling of the word. Your DC needs to change the way they think of a letter with an accent I think.

Has anyone got tips to improve accuracy on detail in MFL. DC here with essentially good vocab and grammar but dreadful memory for accents and genders. Was always terrible at that myself - everything I achieved in MFL was done by extrapolation from particularly solid English Language skills, which is no use at all when it comes to imposing a gender binary on a pineapple .

Hi - does anyone know where I can access Maths higher GCSE practice papers or revision quizzes. Need to be Edexcel based. My DS has worked through the examples given by his school. Thanks