Welcome to Year 11 Study Support 2017
Quality revision is like a military operation…
Students should know:
Students might need:
WHAT they need to learn
WHEN they are going to
allocate the time to it
HOW to learn / revise it
Basic equipment
Time
Space
Quiet/calm
Topic lists
Welcome to Year 11 Study Support 2017
What we have provided…
MRC provision
• WHAT
• WHEN
• HOW
Students should know:
 PLC revision lists
• Mindmaps
• WHAT they need to learn
• WHEN they are going to
allocate the time to it
• HOW to learn / revise it
 Feb half term revision
tasks
 Revision timetables
fortnightly with
tutors
• Post it notes
• Roman Room
 Full syllabus revision
 Easter Revision
• Cue cards
 Family support
• Apps
• Flashcards
SUBJECT LESSONS/HW
• Past papers
• Mnemonics
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Welcome to Year 11 Study Support 2017
Download revision apps to smart phones / tablets: £1.49£1.99 approx.
Examples:
Choose
the
level
Choose
the
subject
Choose
the exam
board
Choose
the
topic
What do most
students do?
• Hope knowledge
has stuck enough to
answer an exam
question and be
successful
Welcome to Year 11 Study Support 2017
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Passive
revision
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Revision workbook
Own notes
Text book refresher
Relevant websites e.g.
quizlet
Gojimo
Quizlet
Cornell notes
Flashcards
Revision book
Mind maps
Graphic
organisers
• Mnemonics
• Post it note
revision
• Read, cover,
write, check
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Exam Practise – short / long
answer questions
Quiz yourself (flash cards /
quizlet – other online quizzes)
Timed exam practise
Essay plans for longer questions
What should
students do?
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Revision workbook
Own notes
Text book refresher
Relevant websites e.g.
quizlet
Active
revision
cycle
• The hard bit that requires
effort to USE the revision
material made….
Welcome to Year 11 Study Support 2017
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Gojimo
Quizlet
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Cornell notes •
Flashcards
Revision book •
Mind maps
Graphic
organisers
Mnemonics
Post it note
revision
Read, cover,
write, check
10 Revision ideas
1. Mindmaps
2. Flashcards
3. Foldables
4. Cornell notes
5. Revision books
6. Post-its
7. Past paper practise
8. Exam question planning
9. Graphic organisers
10. RAGging knowledge
Welcome to Year 11 Study Support 2017
Mind maps
Study Skills: Mind Maps
Benefits and Uses: Mindmapping
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Avoids dull, linear thinking
Creative note taking
Images help you associate
Colour
Key word or images
Logical/ordered
Slims large text
Work for most subjects
The power is in its simplicity !
Study Skills: Mind Maps
Problems to be aware of
• Time to create (carried away!)
• Too much content
• Need to be used interactively to
Expand on wider information
How to Draw a Mind Map
• Start in the middle of a blank page, writing or
drawing the idea you intend to develop
• Identify the key topics around that topic and
add related branches of information
• Use singular words NOT phrases
• Include pictures
Study Skills: Mind Maps
Study Skills: Mind Maps
Study Skills: Mind Maps
Study Skills: Mind Maps
MUHAMMAD ALI 1942-…
Muhammed Ali, arguably the greatest boxer in the history of the sport. He was born in 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. He
was named after his father, Cassius Clay, Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay. He changed it to
Muhammed Ali in 1964. He became a boxer at the age of 12. As an amateur boxer he won many titles, culminating in the Light Heavyweight
gold medal in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy. When Ali returned home to the states, he was so proud that he wore the medal around his
neck wherever he went. After a week, he went to a café and ordered a drink. The waiter said “I’m sorry, we don’t serve coloured people”. Ali
was so incensed by this! He had represented his country, won the gold medal, and come back to this kind of treatment. Muhammed Ali ripped
from his neck and threw it into a river. Ali turned professional at the age of 18. Ali's record was 100 wins, 5 losses when he ended his amateur
career.
Ali became the World Champ at the age of 22. Clay was famed for his unorthodox fighting style. Rather than match his opponents with brute
force, Clay brought tactics and strategy into the ring. With his fast-moving style, he was equally adept at dodging a punch as at delivering one.
His fancy footwork soon became known as the ‘Ali shuffle’. Ali also fought a great psychological game, often beating fighters before they
stepped foot in the ring. It was in the pre-fight build up to his first world-title fight with sonny liston that Ali famously said “I will float like a
butterfly and sting like a bee”.
In 1967, when Ali refused on religious grounds to be drafted into the US army to fight in Vietnam, he was stripped of his title and banned
from boxing., two decisions he successfully overturned in court. This he achieved by defending himself brilliantly without a lawyer.
In 1971, Ali lost the title to Joe Frazier. Ali went on to win it back and then fought in two of the most famous fights in the history of boxing;
The Rumble in the Jungle, versus George Forman and The Thrilla in Manilla, again versus Joe Frazier. Ali is the only boxer to have held the
World title on 3 separate occasions. Ali retired from professional boxing in 1981, at the age of 39, with a career record of 56 wins and 5 losses,
and as a three-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Throughout his boxing career Ali was won over 50 million $. Muhammed Ali
became a Muslim around the age of 22, and a member of a group known as the Nation of Islam (or the Black Muslims) and was inspired by
the teachings of Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali has been married 4 times, and has had nine children. There have been many films made of his
life, most recently with Will Smith in the title role. Ali was awarded the coveted title of ‘Sportsman of the Century’ by the BBC in 1999.
Although suffering from parkinsons disease, Ali still makes many public appearances. He refuses to allow his disability to beat him. He travels
around the world doing great work for charity.
Study Skills: Mind Maps
Study Skills: Mind Maps
PRACTICE! 
 With someone next to you
 Take it in turns to talk through the information
Study Skills: Mind Maps
Using Apps to create mind maps
iMindMap
Study Skills: Mind Maps
Study Skills: Post it Notes
HIGHLIGHTING –
doesn’t always work!
It can be a good method for picking
out key chunks of information of
key words – but how many times does
it end up looking like this?
Study Skills: Post it Notes
Benefits and Uses: Post-It notes
• Movable revision!
• Stick them in memorable
places
• Colour
• Simple/small bits of
information
• Formula/definitions
Study Skills: Post it Notes
Problems to be aware of
• Too many
• Cramming information on
• Basic information – not detail
e.g.
From
these
two
pages in
a text
book…
Study Skills: Post it Notes
To 5
brief
PostIts
Study Skills: Post it Notes
If you then take the post-its away from the text, you
have a series of notes that can be arranged
• For self-testing
• To sequence key points into a flowchart or diagram
Study Skills: Post it Notes
Something basic to be seen everyday
Study Skills: Post it Notes
On your post-it note…
Study Skills: Post it Notes
How to make a cup of tea!
Study Skills: Roman Room
Benefits and Uses: Roman Room
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Good for lists of words
Useful for creative people
Can be done anywhere
Builds stories/theories/themes
(English/RP/History)
Problems to be aware of
• Imagination
• Large ‘effort’ input
• Nothing documented/put to paper
Study Skills: Roman Room
PRACTICE! 
 Picture a room in your
house
 Map it out – objects,
furniture, placement
Study Skills: Roman Room
SUPERMAN
STUDY
COIN
BANK
EXERCISE
RADIO
ELEPHANT
TAIL
BOOKSHOP
EYEBROWS
Study Skills: Roman Room
Thank you for your time
Good Evening
Good Evening: Year 11 Study Support 2017