Exam Skills
Exam technique, marking guidance, worked exam questions and tasks
How does it work?
Each week another video is added to the library, so the collection grows week by week. Videos guide students through all types of exam questions, showing exam techniques, top tips, how to use markschemes, and more. Wherever possible, the videos added are relevant to the topic taught in that week's tuition session, and may also be linked to the examples given in the Maths Skills video for that week, so that they enhance and enrich student's understanding.
Practice questions
A downloadable PDF provides the exam question(s) and mark scheme(s) shown in the video - Students can choose how they learn: try the exam question(s) as they go through the tutorial or have a go at the question first, then mark themselves with guidance from the tutorial. Learning to use the mark schemes themselves is more powerful than having work marked for them. In time, students learn to predict the mark scheme themselves and understand how to answer questions most effectively and efficiently to maximise their chances of gaining marks. Videos go through real exam questions, so that students can see how they can use the skills to gain marks in the exams.
Key terms and the skills that gain exam marks are listed at the side of the video. The chapters and lessons will grow week by week to form a searchable library. Search the library by the key terms given in the title, so that you can find videos to support your current learning, whenever and wherever you're up to. Watch in your own time, speed up, slow down, pause and reflect. The length of video is variable depending on topic and skill. Some are just a few minutes, others may be 20 minutes or so.
Each week another video is added to the library, so the collection grows week by week. Videos guide students through all types of exam questions, showing exam techniques, top tips, how to use markschemes, and more. Wherever possible, the videos added are relevant to the topic taught in that week's tuition session, and may also be linked to the examples given in the Maths Skills video for that week, so that they enhance and enrich student's understanding.
Practice questions
A downloadable PDF provides the exam question(s) and mark scheme(s) shown in the video - Students can choose how they learn: try the exam question(s) as they go through the tutorial or have a go at the question first, then mark themselves with guidance from the tutorial. Learning to use the mark schemes themselves is more powerful than having work marked for them. In time, students learn to predict the mark scheme themselves and understand how to answer questions most effectively and efficiently to maximise their chances of gaining marks. Videos go through real exam questions, so that students can see how they can use the skills to gain marks in the exams.
Key terms and the skills that gain exam marks are listed at the side of the video. The chapters and lessons will grow week by week to form a searchable library. Search the library by the key terms given in the title, so that you can find videos to support your current learning, whenever and wherever you're up to. Watch in your own time, speed up, slow down, pause and reflect. The length of video is variable depending on topic and skill. Some are just a few minutes, others may be 20 minutes or so.
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Your tutor
Hi, I’m Amanda. I’ve been teaching IGCSE Biology to home-educated students since 2017 and teaching Biology since I qualified as a Science teacher in 2010. I have a BSc in Zoology, an MSc in Applied Entomology and have worked in biological research as an earthworm ecotoxicologist and equine welfare researcher all over the world. My menagerie of weird and wonderful animals helps me bring my teaching to life, and I love to teach Biology with real things and interactive demonstrations. Find out more about me and why I built the hub |
