What’s coming up in the next few weeks? 1. Exam information 2. Year 12 Ready Program YEAR 11 ASSEMBLY Friday week 3 1 st November
SEMESTER 2 EXAMS The rules, the tips and the tricks
WHAT’S THE POINT? IT IMPACTS YOUR FUTURE ITS GOOD PRACTICE • Most of the subjects you take in year 12 • The year 11 exams are an opportunity will have an exam for you to ‘preview’ what it’s like to sit an • They comprise 30% of your grade in year exam 12 • You can reflect on how you prepared to • Some Stage 1 exams will go towards your ensure you prepare better next time grade • All Exam grades will go on your report • It is also an opportunity to get familiar with the rules associated with exams to • All exam grade may affect your subject your Stage 2 subject selections ensure nothing goes wrong next year
THE KEY DETAILS WHAT’S HAPPENING AND WHERE DATES AND TIMES • Exam week is in week 5 (13 th – 17 th June) No classes will be scheduled during this time • You only attend your exams that week • • Morning exams start at 9.00 (writing time starts You are welcome to attend school outside your exams, • 9.10) please sign in or sign out if you attend school before or after an exam • Afternoon exams start at 1.30pm (writing time Almost all exams are in the hall • starts at 1.40pm) English – most of you are in hall, some classes will be in F1/F2 • • 10Ex students doing Stage 1 subjects – attend your EAL will be in the Resource Centre • normal year 10 subjects except if you have an exam Essential English will be in the Lecture theatre • during that time – you will get some time off to Art/Design – not an exam, just time to work on your • prepare products, held in art room Electrotech – in TTC •
THE TIMETABLE Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 11/11/19 12/11/19 13/11/19 14/11/19 15/11/1 m English 1.5 hrs Pure Maths 3 1.5 hrs Chinese Continuers 2 hrs Chinese background Speakers 1.5 hrs Accounting Pure Maths 4 1.5 hrs Legal Studies 1.5 hrs German 2 hrs History Nutrition 1.5 hrs Pure Maths 2 1.5 hrs Italian Continuers 2 hrs Digital Creative Japanese Beginners 1.5 hrs Technologies Technologies* Japanese Continuers 2 hrs Electronics* Woodwork* Modern Greek 2 hrs m Essential 1 hr English m Physics 1.5 1.5 hrs Economics 1.5 hrs Biology 1 hr Essential Maths 1 hr Chemistry Psychology 2 1.5 hrs EAL 1.5 hrs General Maths 1 hr Philosophy Psychology S 1.5 hrs Woodwork* Woodwork* Woodwork*
BEFORE THE EXAMS • What exams do I have? What times? • What do you need for your exams? Get this stuff organised • Calculators (spare batteries), pens, pencils, rulers, protractors, notes? • What will be in the exam? Talk to your teachers • Some students without exams may be required to attend school during the exam week to complete school work • Ensure you are in school uniform, as normal when you are at school • Expect to help set up the hall
DURING THE EXAMS 1. Arrive at least 10 minutes before your exam start time (Over 30 minutes late - cannot enter the exam room) 2. Leave all other items (bags etc) in F3 – this room will be locked during the exams 3. Assemble outside VIBE cafe 4. Mr Naylor will call students in exam by exam and will tell you where to sit 5. You will need to have your notes and other items brought into the exam room checked by the supervising teachers 6. Fill out your exam attendance slip 7. Reading time starts at 9.00am or 1.30pm – this lasts for 10 minutes 8. Writing time starts after that Exams are on the desks – if there isn’t an exam on your desk you’re not sitting in the right spot! • Some exams you will answer in the exam paper, some exams you will write in a script booklet • Some exams have additional pages or resources for you to refer to • All exams will have some note paper for you to use •
AFTER THE EXAMS • Take your rubbish with you • Return items you borrowed during the exam: Dictionaries • Stationary • • Return all textbooks, novels etc. to library • Some exams may be continuing when you leave – be respectful to these students • Stage 2 Exams are also continuing at the same time – T -floor will be out of bounds • Normal classes are finished for the year, Year 12 ready programme will run in week 6 • Only attend the sessions for the subject you have selected in 2020
RULES AND EXPECTATIONS No talking once inside the exam hall Electronic devices are not permitted • • Follow instructions of supervising staff Leave them in your bag, locked in F3 or surrender • • them to the supervisors for the duration of the If you need to go to the toilet, inform a exam • supervisor and fill in the sign out/in sheet Must be switched off and not in your possession • You may be asked to wait until another student during the exams. • returns This includes: • You are not permitted to leave if you finish early • Smart watches • Notes: • Electronic dictionaries (printed ones will be • available) Usually one A4 page, double-sided and hand • written Calculators (unless permitted) • Cannot be photocopied or two pages stuck • Phones together • Fitness trackers •
WHAT SHOULD I DO WHEN THINGS GO WRONG? • Examples: Lateness outside your control • Illness or injury severe enough to prevent you attending the exam • • Contact the school • If it is due to illness, go to the doctor and get a doctor’s certificate • If it is an acceptable reason the school may: Permit you to sit the exam with some additional time • Re-schedule the exam to another day (this does not happen in Stage 2 Exams) • Provide you with special provisions •
CLASHES • Some students have Stage 2 exams on at the same time • Some students have two stage 1 exams on at the same time • Some students may have a VET day at the same time as their exam • An exam in the morning and an exam in the afternoon is NOT a clash! What to do: Send a daymap message to Mr Naylor • Attend Stage 2 exams as per the timetable • Attend your VET day as normal (some VET course are finished and some can negotiate • alternative times) – Please communicate! Mr Naylor will message you in the week before the exams to tell you when to sit the • rescheduled exam All rescheduled exams will be during the exam week – there is no catch up time in week 6! •
SPECIAL PROVISIONS There are a variety of reasons why you may not be disadvantaged in completing exams to the ability • of an average student Special provisions are available to those students. This could be: • Extra time • Ability to have rest breaks • Ability to use a computer to type your answers rather than hand-write them • How do I get them? • If you had them in Semester 1, you don’t need to re-apply • Organise an appointment with Mr Naylor by sending a Daymap Message • Usually for a short term or long term medical condition • E.g.: • Short term (Broken arm) • Long term (Dyslexia) •
MANAGING EXAM PRESSURE Develop Speak to Recognise Eat and Use your good study family and your stress sleep well Friends habits friends signals Devise a study Eat healthy Study T ell them how Discuss your • • • • • plan food together you’re going concerns with Set aside a Drink plenty Discuss exam Let them family and • • • • quiet space of water topics know when friends Take regular Get enough T est each you need Speak to • • • • breaks sleep other quiet time teachers Exercise Take a break • • regularly
STUDY TIPS Study tip Suggested strategies work space with table or desk quiet with no distractions such as phones or TV Create a space well lit and comfortable have everything you need nearby; books, pens etc. devise a timetable for the next few weeks (blank template available at Examination and Study Info) build in planned activities, e.g. family outings Devise a plan leave time available for unforeseen events divide your time between subjects to vary your revision, mix subjects you are good at with those which are more challenging make a weekly list of study goals for each subject and tick them off when you achieve them (blank template available at Examination and Study Info) review and revise your weekly list take regular breaks, 10 minutes each hour is good summarise small sections of your work at a time Break it down using dot points can make it easier to review the summaries nearer the time of the exam speaking out loud may help to lock facts in your memory things you find hard to remember can be written on sticky notes and put on doors, walls and mirrors
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