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Year 10 – end of year assessments

Year 10 - revision for end of year assessments

Year 10

Below, you can find out more about the recommended areas Year 8 students should revise in preparation for their end of year exams, together with some information about the assessments themselves.

Simply click on the subjects to find out more.

3D Design Technology

Students will sit a 3-hour exam to be held in normal teaching classrooms. This will be based on Component 1 coursework – making an outcome in 3D based on the work of their artist.

Revision is not required although students’ sketchbooks must be up to date for assessment. Planning for the PPE will be addressed in lesson time.

Art

Students will sit a 3-hour exam to be held in normal teaching classrooms focused on Component 1 coursework – making a personal response outcome for ‘Memories, Objects, Identity’.

Revision is not required although students’ sketchbooks must be up to date for assessment. Planning for the PPE will be addressed in lesson time.

Child Development

Students will sit one exam of 1 hour 15 minutes duration. The paper checks knowledge on RO57 exam topics 1 and 4.

All revision resources are available on Google Classroom.

Computing

Students will sit one 1-hour exam.

This will be Paper 1 – Computer Systems.

Revision resources can be found on:

  • Google Classroom
  • Knowledge Organisers

Drama

No exam – students will be completing a mock performance NEA after school one evening instead. They will perform two scenes from ‘Blood Brothers’ – the lengths of these will be determined by the number of students in each group.

English

Students will sit a 1 hour 45 minute Language exam (English Language Paper One) plus a 1 hour 30 minute Literature exam (Poetry Comparisonh, Modern Text).

Revision resources can be found on:

  • Google Classroom
  • CGP revision guides
  • BBC Bitesize
  • exercise class books
  • Quizzers
  • Knowledge Organisers

Ethics

Food

Geography

Students will sit one exam paper for 1 hour 30 mins. Topics included will be: challenge of natural hazards, living world and urbanisation.

Revision resources are available in:

  • Knowledge organiser booklets which outlines all the case studies
  • Seneca

Graphics

Students will sit a 3-hour exam to be held in normal teaching classrooms. This will be based on Component 1 coursework – making an outcome in graphics based on the work of their artist.

Revision is not required although students’ sketchbooks must be up to date for assessment. Planning for the PPE will be addressed in lesson time.

History

Students will complete an exam consisting of two papers in a two-hour block.

The papers will be based on Germany and Conflict in Asia.

Revision resources are available on Google Classroom.

Maths

Students will sit two exams, one calculator and one non-calculator. Each exam will be 1 hour 30 minutes.

Students will be assessd on all content covered so far (Year 7-9 + Year 10 units 1-4).

Revision resources are available on:

MFL - French

Students will take three assessments:

  • Listening – 35 minutes
  • Reading – 45 minutes
  • Writing – 60 minutes

Units 1-5 will be assessed.

Revision resources are available in Google Classroom.

MFL - German

Students will take three assessments:

  • Listening – 35 minutes
  • Reading – 45 minutes
  • Writing – 60 minutes

Units 1-5 will be assessed.

Revision resources are available in Google Classroom.

Music

Studens will take one 45-minute Listening and Theory Exam.

Student also complete a SOLO performance (mid to late June).

Revision resources are available on:Β 

  • Google Classroom
  • BBC Bitesize
  • Class Notes

Religious Education

One unit for Christianity ‘Beliefs & Teachings’, one for Buddhism ‘Practices’. Revision lessons completed with KAF/SMR – resources on Google and exam is 50 minutes long – 54 marks (half a full paper).

Science

Triple Science – Triple Science students will sit three exams (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) – each 1hr 15 minutes long.

Students have covered the topics that make up Paper 1 and will therefore sit Paper 1 GCSE: B1-B4, C1-C5, P1-4.

Biology: one 1 hour 45 minute exam focused on Paper 1 GCSE B1-B4

Chemistry: one 1 hour 45 minute exam focused on Paper 1 GCSE C1-C5

Physics: one 1 hour 45 minute exam focused on Paper 1 GCSE P1-4

Revision resources are available on Google Classroom in the PPE Revision folders.

Sports Studies

Pupils will sit two 45-minute papers on Health, Fitness and Wellbeing and Anatomy and Physiology and Physical Training.

Revision resources are available in:

  • Revision guides
  • Knowledge Organisers
  • Class notes

Textiles

Students will sit a 3-hour exam to be held in normal teaching classrooms focused on Component 1 coursework – making an outcome for textiles based on the work of their artist.

Revision is not required although students’ sketchbooks must be up to date for assessment. Planning for the PPE will be addressed in lesson time.

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