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Year 11 Mock Exam Information

Year 11 Mocks Week Commencing 20 November 2023

Year-11-Mock-timetable-Nov-2023-3.pdf 2023-24-Year-11-Mocks-Handbook-2.pdf

Please find below key information regarding the November 2023 mock exams by subject.

Art

5 hour exam. The mock exam counts towards 60% of the final GCSE grade.

Computer Science

Unit-2-Checklist-GCSE-Computer-Science-1.pdf

Creative iMedia

Creative-iMedia-Revision.png

Design Technology (Product Design)

It is a full 2 hour paper.

Exam board is OCR

If you do not have a revision guide from year 10, you can purchase one from us through SCOPAY. They are £4.

Synthetic Fabric properties
Standard components
Anthropometrics
Ergonomics in depth
Templates
Scale drawing
Types of motion—Mechanisms-levers
Sources of energy (pros and cons)
Renewable energy In depth, Inc. advantage and disadvantages

Section 3 insert

Themo and thermoset plastics, Advantages and disadvantages
6Rs recycling upcycling
TIMBER PRODUCT
LIFECYCLE ANALYSIS of a timber product
Softwoods hardwoods
6Rs recycling upcycling
TIMBERS
Commercial manufacturing
Marking out
Wasting moulding
Assembly finishing
Quality assurance
Environmental impact
Product lifecycle
Marketing
Communication ideas

I have made a booklet of what to revise, also on teams

Online Resources

Seneca

Seneca Learning has free mini quiz resources you can use.

https://app.senecalearning.com

You need to click on ‘students use for free’. Search for Design & Technology OCR Product Design

BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/examspecs/zdvb2sg

Technology Student

https://www.technologystudent.com/

Drama

Component 3 Drama Mock exam.

The exam will focus on the play ‘DNA’ and include the three sections which are in the final exam – Acting, Director, Designer.

There will not be a theatre evaluation question in the mock exam.

The extract will come from ACT 2; so make sure you have read and re-read it and prepared some design decisions.

Remember you have lots of exemplars and ‘top tips’ in your folders and full details re the paper and revision resources are on class charts. Use them!

English Language

Component 2 (Non-fiction)
Time: 1 ½ hours
Component 2a - Reading –1 hour
Read 2 Non-Fiction extracts and answer 6 questions
For 10 mark questions you need to spend 10 minutes on them and write a whole page of A4 exam paper.
Some questions are 3 mark questions, and can be answered with bullet points and should only take 5 minutes.

Component 2b – writing 30 minutes - 1 piece of non-fiction yourself.
Spend 25 minutes on each task. Spend 2 minutes planning before you start and 3 minutes proof-reading.
You may be asked to write: a formal or informal letter, an article for a magazine, a speech, a report, a review or a leaflet.
For the Mock we are telling you in advance that you need to REVISE:
Formal letters
Speeches
Articles

English Literature

Single two hour paper
Section A: Romeo and Juliet – 1 hour
1x Extract only question
- 20 minutes, 1-1 ½ pages
1 x Essay question on either Lord Capulet, Juliet or the Nurse in Acts 1-3
- 40 minutes, 2-3 pages
You should revise:
Juliet’s character, her relationships and her role in the play
Lord Capulet’s character, his relationships and his role in the play
The nurse, her relationship with Juliet and her role in the play.

Section B: Eduqas Poetry Anthology- 1 hour
- 20 minutes - part (a) - write about the printed poem
- 40 minutes - part (b) - select any other poem with a similar theme to compare
You should revise:
Death of a Naturalist
Hawk Roosting
To Autumn
One of these will be printed on the exam paper but you must also revise the other two to be sure you can write the comparison.

Food Preparation and Nutrition

Students have had a paper copy with a list of topics on their mock exam paper and the information is also on Class charts.

The paper will be 1 ¾ hour - all compulsory questions, short and long answers

Geography

Paper 1 (physical) will be sat in the main hall during mock week.

Paper 2 (human) will be sat in the following week across two lessons in the classroom.

Revision guide checklist for paper 1 and 2: Geography-Mock-Revision-Guide-2023.docx

Graphics

5 hour exam. The mock exam counts towards 60% of the final GCSE grade.

History

Students will be completing their mock exam in a 2 hour session in which they will sit two papers at the same time.

The first paper is Russia: Tsardom to Communism, 1984-1945

The second paper is Norman England, c.1066-1100.

Both papers are equally weighted. We follow the AQA specification.

Revision sessions have been taking place since September on a Wednesday after school in the History classrooms.

Maths (Foundation and Higher)

Year-11-Foundation-topic-list.pdf

Year-11-Higher-topic-list-2.pdf

Modern Foreign Languages

Revise all 6 topics from year 10

Revise the first topic of year 11 (environment).

You will be sitting all four skills (reading, listening, speaking, writing)

Music

The exam is 1 hour 45 mins. You will be all together (both option blocks) for the exam so check the timetable carefully.

Questions as follows:

Section A (short answer)

Defying Gravity
Bach Brandenburg (we haven't done this yet in full detail but you can answer the questions as all link to MADTSHIRTT and Baroque music textures)
Sambe Em Preludio
Beethoven Pathetique
Star Wars
Killer Queen
Melodic and Rhythmic dictation
Film unfamiliar

Section B - comparison essay

Purcell Music for a While and another piece of vocal music - evoking emotions

Remember there are loads of resources to aid revision in the files area on Teams - use them!