A set of resources mapping to spec codes from the new AQA KS3 Science specification. 3.5.3-3.5.4 Covering 9-10 lessons. A sequence of lessons covering all areas of the specification. Lesson PowerPoint’s of theory and differentiated tasks following an all, most and some principle. Mark schemes included to aid pupil self assessment. All theory presented for teacher to read through as you go. This leads to pupil tasks and resources that are differentiated and range in literacy and numeracy as well. At the end is a multiple choice assessment which can then be peer marked with a review by the teacher.

If you want some targeted revision structure and pupil resources, then this resource may help. A set of exam question packs and past paper analysis to aid year 11 revision for foundation and higher. Each pack is roughly two hours of exam questions and includes all markschemes and examiner reports. (Two documents per tier. One just questions and the other questions, markscheme and examineers report. How is it different from other resources? They are themed around the specification points that HAVE NOT APPEARED in the last two years (or very infrequently). This works on the basis that spec codes roughly fall on a three-year cycle with AQA exams and therefore could likely appear in this year’s exam papers. Therefore each question pack contains two full exam questions for each spec point not assessed in the last two years and one full exam question, in rank order, for those assessed infrequently. It also includes the full analysis of spec points for both tiers over both years and filterable spec lists that could enable some structure to the lesson content covered as revision. Hopefully this will lead to a more productive approach, in terms of revision topics and time management, for both pupils and teachers. How does it work? (Finer detail) It highlights spec codes that HAVE NOT appeared in the last two years of exams or have a low relative frequency, leading to a very high probability of most of them appearing in the summer exams. This tool has analysed both papers for both years and completed a frequency count of each spec code. This summarises into a combined table to prepare for the summer exams. It highlights spec codes that have not been assessed by showing as green. It colours through a spectrum of green to red, of other specs which have been assessed, but infrequently. It shows this by a simple frequency count and relative frequency. The relative analysis tool shows how common it has appeared relative to the number of spec points. A low frequency could still have a high relative frequency if there aren’t that many spec point in that section, showing a lower probability. There is also a combined summary for F and H papers if you teach mixed groups. Each analysis is shown graphically leading to easy displays for pupils to review key areas and target their focus. On the following tabs there is a full spec checklist filterable by their appearance in either F, H or both so pupils can view this information in a checklist explaining each spec point. This has then led to a checklist revision list for both F and H papers and a ranking order of likely topics to appear in the summer papers starting with units where a spec has not been assessed and then leading into those with low relative frequencies.

Now that the “Advance Information” has been released by AQA I have put together an AQA exam question revision and assessment pack following the “major focus” list. This is themed so that it can be uploaded, completed and reviewed independently by the pupils as the mark scheme and examiners report are included. Or it can broken down to be completed in class over a few lessons. The pack is approximately 2.5-3 hrs worth of questions using the AQA times. The booklet starts with a review front sheet which lists all the specification points being reviewed. There is then a spec point break down and two questions per focus. One question followed by a more challenging one. It then ends with required practical themed questions. Each question has a place to record scores and review through a WWW and EBI list. There is then space for self review/feedback.

Now that the “Advance Information” has been released by AQA I have put together an AQA exam question revision and assessment pack following the “major focus” list. This is themed so that it can be uploaded, completed and reviewed independently by the pupils as the mark scheme and examiners report are included. Or it can broken down to be completed in class over a few lessons. The pack is approximately 2.5-3 hrs worth of questions using the AQA times. The booklet starts with a review front sheet which lists all the specification points being reviewed. There is then a spec point break down and two questions per focus. One question followed by a more challenging one. It then ends with required practical themed questions. Each question has a place to record scores and review through a WWW and EBI list. There is then space for self review/feedback.

Now that the “Advance Information” has been released by AQA I have put together an AQA exam question revision and assessment pack following the “major focus” list. This is themed so that it can be uploaded, completed and reviewed independently by the pupils as the mark scheme and examiners report are included. Or it can broken down to be completed in class over a few lessons. The pack is approximately 2.5-3 hrs worth of questions using the AQA times. The booklet starts with a review front sheet which lists all the specification points being reviewed. There is then a spec point break down and two questions per focus. One question followed by a more challenging one. It then ends with required practical themed questions. Each question has a place to record scores and review through a WWW and EBI list. There is then space for self review/feedback.

Now that the “Advance Information” has been released by AQA I have put together an AQA exam question revision and assessment pack following the “major focus” list. This is themed so that it can be uploaded, completed and reviewed independently by the pupils as the mark scheme and examiners report are included. Or it can broken down to be completed in class over a few lessons. The pack is approximately 2.5-3 hrs worth of questions using the AQA times. The booklet starts with a review front sheet which lists all the specification points being reviewed. There is then a spec point break down and two questions per focus. One question followed by a more challenging one. It then ends with required practical themed questions. Each question has a place to record scores and review through a WWW and EBI list. There is then space for self review/feedback.

If you’ve ever wanted to be able to guarantee that your pupils are reviewing all areas of the course, then this resource should help. The “All Spec Review” (I have a free resource for Foundation Biology Paper 1 that will enable you to see what this pack contains) Before a full paper is completed by your pupils you will likely revise the different chapters within the assessment paper. But how do you check they understand or how do they? This questions pack contains past exam questions that meet every specification point for the tier and paper being reviewed. I have analysed every question from every past paper to collate which question meets which specification points. From this analyse I have put together a question pack that the pupil can work through that is guaranteed to cover every specification point at least once, if not a few times. Using AQA exam timings these booklets contain at least a couple of hours of work. Broken down with revision, or completed open book, this could be many hours of work in class or at home. This resource contains a PowerPoint slide to put up that has the breakdown of question versus spec point. It then has a teacher version with questions, markscheme and examiner report and a pupil version with just questions. At the start of the pack there is a review table for the pupils to keep track of questions and specification points they are strong or weak in. Hope this helps and builds to a full review of everything needing to be covered.

Want to find a question on a specific topic for 2017 revision? Want to make an exam paper on a range of topics? Want to easily generate revision booklets? Don’t want to waste your time searching for those questions? Then this tool will help. This document consists of a full spec list for C2 and a list of exam questions for C2 by spec code. This includes all F and H paper over the years 2016-2014. It is a filterable and editable spreadsheet, listing in spec order, all the exam questions over the last three years. Simply filter by the exact required spec code. This can also be done to a range of detail as the spec codes have been split across four columns to be able to filter by a whole topic in a simpler way. It will then tell you the tier, year and exact question in a list. This list could then aid you to quickly build a resource or even give straight to pupils to generate very targeted homework/revision task based on your own gap analysis.

All spec codes must be examined through a three year period with AQA exams. This is a spec code frequency analysis of 2015-16 exams for both foundation and higher exam papers leading to very specific lesson focus and pupil revision. It highlights spec codes that HAVE NOT appeared in the last two years leading to a very high probability of them appearing in summer 2017. This tool has analysed 2016 and 2015 exam papers and completed a frequency count of each lettered spec code. This summarises into a combined table to prepare for the 2017 exams. It highlights lettered spec codes that have not been assessed in the last two years by showing as green. Being the last year of AQA exams before the 1-9 exams there is a very high probability of possible topics that will appear in the summer exams. It colours through a spectrum of red to green, of other specs which have been assessed, but infrequently. It shows this by a simple count and relative frequency to the number of spec codes. The relative analysis tool shows how common it has appeared in the last two years relative to the number of spec points. A low spec count could still have a high relative count showing a lower probability. There is also a combined summary for F and H papers if you teach mixed groups. Each analyse is shown graphically leading to easy displays for pupils to review key areas to focus. On following tabs there is a full spec checklist filterable by their appearance in either F, H or both so pupils can view this information in a checklist explaining each spec point. This has then lead to a checklist revision list for both F and H papers. A F and H revision list of past exam question specifically themed on these areas to help support and lead revision up to the summer exams. The aim of the support pack is to help prepare for the summer exams of 2017. This is a very unique situation where we can have a good chance of using this analyse to target revision and focus the pupils.

Want to find a question on a specific topic for 2017 revision? Want to make an exam paper on a range of topics? Want to easily generate revision booklets? Don’t want to waste your time searching for those questions? Then this tool will help. This document consists of a full spec list for C3 and a list of exam questions for C3 by spec code. This includes all F and H paper over the years 2016-2014. It is a filterable and editable spreadsheet, listing in spec order, all the exam questions over the last three years. Simply filter by the exact required spec code. This can also be done to a range of detail as the spec codes have been split across four columns to be able to filter by a whole topic in a simpler way. It will then tell you the tier, year and exact question in a list. This list could then aid you to quickly build a resource or even give straight to pupils to generate very targeted homework/revision task based on your own gap analysis.