Year 12 English Exam Revision - ENGLISH WITH MR SOMMERS



Year 11 English Exam Revision

1. You should have a study timetable based on your exam timetable.

2. As English is one of the first exams, English revision should be included in the early part of your study timetable.

Studying for English-You can plan different activities that will form revision activities for different periods of time. These could include:-

10-15 minutes-

• Plan a text response from Reading and Responding topics for Look Both Ways

• Select one of the Context prompts (See my website). provided during the year and brainstorm or complete a concept map showing the key ideas you would use in responding to the prompt. Remember to include links to the set texts.

• Read the text/s provided for analysis in sample tasks in the Using Language to Persuade section. See my website.

• Write a character profile of main characters in one of your reading and responding texts (in point form)

• Write a list of main quotes to learn for each Reading and Responding text

30 minutes-

• Plan 2 text responses for the reading and responding text. Your plan should include main points to be included in the introduction, topic sentences for each paragraph and main points to be included in the conclusion.

• View key scenes of the film text; Take notes as you view. (The whole text should be re-viewed during revision time – access on clickview).

• Conference with a friend – swap essays, read and edit them, you will discuss the topic content and work to improve your writing ability at the same time

1 hour-

• Complete a full analysis of a text/s.

• Plan and write a full Reading and Responding response.

• Plan and write a full Creating and Presenting response. Use one of the prompts on my website to help you.

• Go through all your notes on one of the texts you are revising

2 hours-

• Watch the film text again, pausing to check key scenes and write down quotes.

• Plan and write a Reading and Responding response followed by a Creating and Presenting response. Spend an hour on each.

• Prepare a set of study notes on each Reading and Responding text, using sub-headings: Plot, Characters, Setting, Structure, Language, Themes, Metalanguage

• Prepare a set of study notes on each Creating and Presenting text, using subheadings to show how they reflect the Context, Encountering Conflict.

3 hours 15 minutes- go to VCAA website for practice exams and do a full exam

15 minutes reading time- no writing in this time

Read all questions thoroughly and check back to the question frequently.

Plan your time and keep to it.

Use a dictionary to check shades of meaning in key words in topics.

Plan all responses- allow 5-10 mins maximum

Make sure you proofread all responses.

_____________________________________________________________________

You can also use the following websites to aid your revision:









Use them to:

• Review information on the texts and Areas of Study

• Access the Insight study guides for texts

• View past exam papers and assessor’s comments

• Look at advice for good writing

• Access web tools for study and study activities

Planning your writing in the exam:

When you step into the exam you have limited time to think through and plan the structure of your essays and/or other written responses. Advice is to take no more than 5-8 mins doing this for each response. Therefore, you need to practise responding quickly to text response essay questions and prompts for writing.

In the case of Encountering Conflict prompts for writing, make use of FLAP+C to plan a response quickly. Click here.

This tool below might help some of you plan for writing about Look Both Ways.

Interactive essay map

Some of you might find using this interactive essay map tool helps you practise planning out essays quickly and effectively. It sets you up to create a visual in your mind of the things you need to think about for each part of your essay.

[pic]

- Remember to always include quotes and examples to support your ideas in the supporting details section of your plan.

- Our aim in the exam is to write three body paragraphs, but plan for a fourth main idea if you can.

- You can plan for a number of different topics using this tool and print them off to review in the lead up to the exam.

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download