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Prepare | Revise | Achieve: maximise your potential during the examination period

March 28, 2022March 9, 2022Hilary Sayer

Now that you’re making progress with your revision, our IB Prepared series authors have put together some tips for examination paper assessments.

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Prepare | Revise | Achieve: making the most of revision time

March 2, 2022March 9, 2022Hilary Sayer

After planning your time, it can be difficult to know where to start your revision. Our IB Prepared authors share three areas of focus to help you make the most of your time.

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Using Oxford Revise to support exam preparation

February 16, 2022February 17, 2022OxfordAQA
Science author Jo Locke talks about successful exam revision and the award-winning Oxford Revise approach.

With just a few months until the beginning of the May/June exam series, the countdown to exam preparation has most definitely started. And whether your students are preparing for their first set of mocks or already have a number of past papers under their belt, revision will definitely be top of everyone’s to do list. […]

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Looking after student and staff wellbeing during exam season: Part 2 of 3

February 9, 2022March 24, 2023Oxford Secondary

Our school is strongly focused on well-being for both pupils and staff, and understands that if staff well-being or morale is low then this can impact teaching and learning. Since returning to school and staff have found pupils increasingly aware of their own well-being, too. PSHE lessons often discuss well-being and promote and encourage strategies […]

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Prepare | Revise | Achieve: preparing for your assessment revision

February 3, 2022March 9, 2022Hilary Sayer
A girl sits at a laptop biting a pencil. She looks stressed.

When it comes to the assessment period, we know that working out where to start can sometimes be the hardest part! With the help of our author team from our IB Prepared series, we have collated some tips on how to best prepare yourself for revision.

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2022 A Level exams: Primrose Kitten’s top 10 tips for maintaining revision intensity

February 2, 2022February 3, 2022Oxford Secondary

You can find lots of great advice and practical support for students and parents on our A Level hub ! Mock exams are high-stakes tests, especially this year when there is the chance that they will be used as a backup to determine grades if exams are cancelled again. Typically, you’d be asked to do one or two […]

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2022 A Level exams: Setting goals and developing effective habits

February 2, 2022February 3, 2022Oxford Secondary

You can find lots of great advice and practical support for students and parents on our  A Level hub ! Goals are important and we all have them – and January is a very popular time to discuss them. In Year 13 your goals are likely to be things like “Do well in my A Level exams” or “Get […]

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Revision: Getting the why and the how

January 7, 2022February 3, 2022Oxford Secondary

Over the last 10 years, the teaching profession has been exposed, and to some extent attempted to embed, the principles of effective revision. For many staff the names of Ebbinghaus, Dunlosky and Willingham have become familiar and their work and principles are now found in the ‘Golden Thread’ of the ITT Core Curriculum, the Early […]

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Rethinking Revision with Andy Lewis

December 4, 2020December 9, 2020Oxford RE Team
rethink revision

“…there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…” (United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002) The Latin origin of the word revision suggests the student must “look again”. Sadly, we know that just ‘looking’ at work again is of little use. However, I’d go further – the whole concept […]

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Getting ready for A level Psychology

June 29, 2020June 30, 2020Oxford Psychology Team

Psychology is a brand new subject for most students. There is a large amount of new vocabulary to get used to, as well as new ways of thinking. I’ve put together some resources which will help students to start to become familiar with psychological concepts as well as keeping their valuable GCSE skills going, so […]

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