Tips for Exam Success – Now Available!
Our Tips for Exam Success and Example Responses content is now available for both English Language and Geography. These pods are designed to provide a quick and accessible way of revising for exams. The style is friendly and engaging, like a teacher working one on one with a pupil and guiding them through questions. The content is exam-board specific with bespoke pods for different boards.
They are great for independent learning and GCSE revision, as students can watch the pods and then use the accompanying PDFs to apply the skills. They are also perfect to use with younger students to teach the techniques of how to answer exam questions.
What does it include?
For each question on the reading paper, there’s one Tips for Success pod and one Example Responses pod.
Tips for Success Pods
The Tips for Success pods provide general strategies and tips for approaching a particular question or question type successfully. They explain the rubric of exam questions and mark schemes, walking students through the exam question and its potential pitfalls, and what the examiner wants to see.
Example Responses
The Example Responses pods talk through example responses to each question on the sample papers. The pod gives feedback on where the marks came from, how the answers do or don’t meet the mark scheme, what the mid-level response could improve, and why a high-level response would score more.
The Tips for Success pods provide general strategies and tips for approaching a particular question or question type successfully. They explain the rubric of exam questions and mark schemes, walking students through the exam question and its potential pitfalls, and what the examiner wants to see.
Geography
Question Answering Skills
Our Question Answering Skills pods talk students through how to approach long-answer questions for both physical and human geography. Using example student responses, they explain what the examiner wants to see and common pitfalls to avoid.
Paper-specific pods
These pods are packed full of tips, strategies and model responses, enabling students to understand what’s expected from them for the different question types they’ll face in the exam.
PDF sample exam papers
Alongside the pods, PDF sample exam papers (and resource booklets where relevant) are available for download. They are written in the style of each exam board, following the structure and wording styles, giving students the opportunity to practice the skills demonstrated in the pods.
Where to find them
Find these pods within the English Language and Geography subject areas.
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