4 tips to prepare your students for their upcoming exams
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4 tips to prepare your students for their upcoming exams
With exam season
fast approaching, teachers have a pivotal role to play when it comes to
preparing their students.
If they’re to
succeed in the exam hall, pupils will need to be confident in their abilities
and prepared for what they will face.
This involves make
the whole process easier to understand, often achieved via the use of learning
tools and mock exams.
Here we have four top tips for
teachers, so you can ensure your pupils are as ready for their exams as can be.
1. Your preparation is key too
Knowledge and
understanding is needed close to home too, and every teacher should take time
to ensure they know the exam process and what the assessment will look for.
This way, you’ll be
able to answer any questions that your students may have, helping to put any
potential fears at ease, while also being aware of any changes that may have
recently occurred.
Pay careful
attention to any minor curriculum changes and think about how parts of it could
be assessed – especially in instances where the exams commonly follow a
standardised format.
2. Revision sessions
Structured revision
sessions can be a great way to boost your students’ confidence and to focus on
particular areas of the curriculum that they may be struggling to understand.
First up, encourage
pupils to discuss areas they are not sure on, as the revision sessions can then
be tailored to best support them.
Pupils should also
be encouraged to support each other in the sessions too, as peer to peer
learning can also help to enhance their understanding ahead of exams.
3. Reflect on learning
If you’ve worked
through past questions as part of the revision process, have a period at the
end to chat through answers too and to note down the key elements of each
answer.
You may also want
to revisit some of the work from previous sessions when starting a new one,
just as you would in lessons.
This serves to
deepen knowledge and understanding, while also keeping the content fresh in
pupils’ minds.
4. Constantly focus on the basics
As exams get
closer, always remind your pupils of the exam basics they need to remember –
using past papers can be a great way of doing this.
Ensure they know to
always read the question through multiple times in order to answer effectively
and make sure that your students recognise the language of exams too, as this
will also influence how they go about answering on test day.
Explain the
importance of looking out for key words which detail the task, such as
‘describe’ or ‘summarise’ and the role that time management plays – less time
on questions worth fewer marks and a greater amount on those worth more.
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