KS5 Examinations

During your child’s time at Bishop Stopford’s sixth form, they will undertake a number of formal trial exams in preparation for their final external exams. Information on all these exams can be found below.

If you or your child has any further queries regarding exams in the sixth form, please contact our exams officer Lisa Williams using the email address: lwilliams@bishopstopfords.enfield.sch.uk

Revision Tips and Techniques

Excellent exam results don’t just come to people who are ‘lucky’ or ‘talented’. They are a product of hard work and dedication. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you know all the information, and can apply this in exams, just because you turned up to lessons! In order to achieve, and indeed exceed, your targets active and thorough revision is key.

When your revise you’ll need to:

• Learn facts
• Apply knowledge to new scenarios
• Understand the layout and format of exam papers
• Practicing timed past exam papers and questions
• Develop understanding of topics
• Practice techniques

Make sure your revision is worthwhile:

• Don’t waste your time and energy on ineffective revision
• Put your phone away, avoid distraction
• Set a time frame and stick to it, if you’re doing half an hour revision put everything else aside for that half an hour, set a timer on your phone and put it in the drawer until the timer goes off!

Revision sites

Make full use of the excellent Revision sites. Check out which ones work for you, see the links below:

• Physics and Maths Tutor
• SENECA learning
• Maths Genie
• A-Level Chemistry
• Chemrevise

Google classroom

Make sure you have this up and running, ask for help if you are struggling. Join the relevant classrooms to access resources and more. If you don’t know the class code then ASK your teacher. You may need to get your password/user ID from the IT helpdesk if you don’t know it, you MUST use your school log in details to enter the google classrooms, not a personal email address.

Revision timetables

Use a revision timetable. Here are some useful templates to help you. Edit them print them, stick them somewhere public so everyone knows what you are committing to… the fridge is a good place!

• 6-week-Revision-Timetable
• Monthly-Revision-Timetable
• Weekly-Revision-planner-example
• Weekly-revision-planner-split-into-hours

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!

Use these links below to download past papers from the exam boards:

• EDEXEL
• AQA
• OCR

Get your parents/carer on board:

Ask your parents for help, talk to them, they want to support you as much as possible