OCR A-Level Boost Synoptic Success and general exam technique – 21 September (London)

Boost Synoptic Success and general Examination Technique – with reference to the 2018 Exam papers

Tutor: Emma Stephens (see Emma’s profile below)

Benefits of attending:

• Get key items of feedback from the first A-level examination (all three papers)
• Gain confidence in preparing candidates for the different styles of exam questions – short answer, structured answer and synoptic
• Learn how to adapt our teaching and exam preparation to the ‘new spec’ exam style questions and requirements
• Finish the day more knowledgeable, enthused and inspired

Coffee / discussion: 11.30-11.45

11.45-1.00
Synoptic Success

• Understand the jargon
  • e.g. levels of response mark schemes, generic descriptors, question specific discriminators, Assessment Objectives
• What exactly are the synoptic requirements / how should candidates approach the questions?
• What about timings in the exam overall, and in synoptic in particular?
• Learn how to annotate and grade the candidates’ synoptic answers ‘as the examiners do’

• Getting the mark right…
  • in both 20-mark and 10-mark synoptic answers
• Impact in your classroom
  • opportunities for embedding synoptic skills
  • effectively preparing students for synoptic success
  • increasing confidence, efficiency and outcomes!

Emma

• Is an extremely enthusiastic and successful teacher of A level PE
  ●  Having taught all sections of the OCR course for many years
  ●  She is Senior Curriculum Manager at Farnborough Sixth Form College- an Ofsted outstanding College
  ●  With a wealth of knowledge and ideas to share
  ●  Emma is an experience Team Leader (theory) and Practical Moderator (coursework) for a leading examination body
  ●  And a practiced INSET tutor
  ●  She has written one of the new PEfocus (OCR endorsed) Teacher Resource Files