Year 12 Mock Exam Revision GuideJan 14-25, 2018

Date First Session8:00-10:00

Second Session11:00-13:00

Tuesday, Jan 9, 2018 ❖ IGCSE English 2nd Listening (1 Hour)

Sunday, Jan 14, 2018 ❖ Biology Practical (2 x Science Labs; 12-2)

Monday, Jan 15, 2018 ❖ Chemistry Practical (2 x Science Labs; 12-2)

Tuesday, Jan 16, 2018 ❖ Physics Practicals (2 x Science Labs; 12-2)

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2018 ❖ Islamic Studies (English/ Arabic) ❖ AICT Practical (2.5 Hours)

Thursday, Jan 18, 2018 ❖ English (Paper 1)❖ IGCSE English 2nd Language

❖ English (Paper 2)

Sunday, Jan 21, 2018 ❖ AS Pure Math❖ IGCSE Math

❖ Mechanics (1.5 Hours)❖ Statistics (1.5 Hours)

Monday, Jan 22, 2018 ❖ AS Chemistry ❖ AS Business Studies

Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018 ❖ AS General Paper ❖ AS IT Theory

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018 ❖ AS Physics❖ IGCSE Physics

❖ Arabic

Thursday, Jan 25, 2018 ❖ AS Biology❖ IGCSE Biology

Mock Exam Information❖ This revision guide was produced by subject teachers in order to ensure that students and parents are

aware of the of the material being covered on the Mock Exam.

❖ Students are encouraged to use a variety of resources to help prepare for the exam.

❖ Mock Exam Procedures:

➢ Students are expected to arrive to the exam hall at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start

time

➢ Students must sit in the assigned seat

➢ Students must provide all supplies such as pens, pencils and rulers

➢ Students may use the approved calculator only when instructed to do so.

➢ Students must not talk or attempt to communicate with others during the exam

➢ Cell phones must be turned off and placed in the designated area upon entering the exam room

❖ Mock Exam/Predicted Grade Reports will be issued on Feb 11th

❖ Cambridge Exam Entries must be completed by Feb 19th

Exam Study Tips❖ Sleep and eat well

➢ Make sure you are well rested and have a balanced meal on the exam day

❖ Prepare a good study schedule

➢ How much material do you have to cover? Start early

➢ Here is a resource to help you create a revision schedule

❖ Have no fear!

➢ You got this!

❖ Select an appropriate study location

➢ Select a place where you are comfortable and can concentrate without distractions

➢ Sit up straight with good posture

➢ Do not study in bed or on safe

❖ Make notes while studying

➢ Use highlighters and colored pens to signal important information

➢ Review notes regularly

❖ Find practice questions and tests

➢ Ask your teacher to review your answers to ensure that you are on the right track

❖ Review key concepts often

➢ Can you explain the information to someone else? This is how you know you truly understand

Managing Exam AnxietySome anxiety is to be expected during exam season. Here are a few tips to help you manage your stress:

❖ Before the Test➢ Visualize yourself being successful

➢ Avoid cramming by using a study schedule

➢ Use your time wisely

❖ During the Test➢ Maintain good posture

➢ Don’t overthink

➢ Pause: Think about the next step, Stay on task, Step by Step

➢ Remember, there is no reward for finishing first

❖ Relax: You Got This! ➢ Stretch: Arms, Neck and Back

➢ 1-5 Deep Breathing (In nose; Out mouth)

➢ Imagine a safe place

➢ Use positive self-talk

AS EnglishTeacher: Ms. Daniela & Mr. Gunnar Exam Time: 2 Hours EachPaper 1: Jan 18, 2018 @ 8AM Paper 2: Jan 18 @ 11AM

Topics Covered Details

PAPER 1 Passages for comment

Genre, writer’s purpose and toneLanguage features: vocabulary, figures of speech structureWriting for a particular purpose and audienceShort passages for commentDirected writing tasks for short and long passagesfor commentDirected writing before commentaryLonger passages for comment

PAPER 2 Composition Narrative/ Descriptive/ Imaginative writing

AS Pure Mathematics Teachers: Ms. Jabeen & Ms. Claudine Exam Time: 2 HoursExam Date: Jan 21 @ 8AM

TOPICS TO BE COVERED DETAIL

Chapter 1: Quadratic equations Study notes in books and questions given in assessments.

Revise past paper exams questions

Chapter 2: Coordinate geometry 1

Chapter 3: Coordinate geometry 2

Chapter 5: Functions

Chapter 6: Inequalities

Chapter 7: Differentiation

Chapter 8: Tangents, normals and stationary values

AS MechanicsTeacher: Mr. Johan Exam Time: 1.5 HourExam Date: Jan 21, 11AM

TOPICS TO BE COVERED DETAIL

Chapter 1: Vectors Study notes in books and questions given during assessments Revise past paper exams questions

Chapter 2: Motion

Chapter 3: Constant acceleration

Chapter 4: Force

Chapter 5: Newton's laws of motion

Chapter 6: Forces in equilibrium; friction

AS Statistics Teacher: Ms. Marie Exam Time: 1.5 HourExam Date: Jan 21, 11AM

TOPICS TO BE COVERED DETAIL

Chapter 1: Representation of data Study notes in books and questions given in assessments.

Revise past paper exams questions

Chapter 2: Permutations and Combinations

Chapter 3: Probability

AS BiologyTeacher: Ms. Elena Exam Time: 2 HoursPractical Exams: Jan 14, 12PM-2PM Written Exam: Jan 25 @ 8AM

TOPICS TO BE COVERED DETAIL

Unit 1 Cells Light and electron microscopes; Using graticules and stage micrometers to calculate magnification of drawings and measuring cells; structure and function of organelles in animals and plants; characteristics of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells; structure of a virus.

Unit 2Biological Molecules

Structure of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids, and their roles in living organisms; Water and living organisms; biochemical tests.

Unit 3 Enzymes Mode of action of enzymes; factors that affect enzymes; enzyme kinetics.

Unit 4 Transport in plants and animals

Transport in plants: The need for a transport system in flowering plants; structure of transport tissue; transport mechanisms.Transport in mammals: The circulatory system; structure and function of blood, blood vessels and the heart; role of haemoglobin; control and coordination of the cardiac cycle.

Unit 5 Gas exchange in mammals Gas exchange and smoking: The gas exchange system; smoking and smoking-related diseases

Unit 6 Mitotic cycle Nucleic acids and protein synthesis

AS ChemistryTeacher: Ms. Shejila Exam Time: 2 HoursPractical Exams: Jan 15, 12PM Written Exam: Jan 22 @ 8AM

TOPICS TO BE COVERED DETAIL

UNIT 1. Atoms, molecules and stoichiometry

Relative masses of atoms and molecules, The mole, the Avogadro constant, The determination of relative atomic masses, Ar, and relative molecular masses, Mr , from mass spectra, The calculation of empirical, and molecular formulae, Reacting masses and volumes (of solutions and gases).

UNIT 2. Atomic structure The nucleus of the atom: neutrons and protons, isotopes, proton and nucleon numbers, Electrons: electronic energy levels, ionisation energies, atomic orbitals, extranuclear structure.

UNIT 3. Chemical bonding Ionic (electrovalent) bonding, Covalent bonding and coordinate (dative covalent)Bonding, The shapes of simple molecules, Bond energies, bond lengths and bond polarities, Intermolecular forces including hydrogen bonding, Metallic bonding.

UNIT 5. Chemical energetics Enthalpy changes: ΔH of formation, combustion, hydration, solution, neutralisation and atomisation; bond energy; Hess’ Law; enthalpy cycles.

UNIT 10.1 Introductory organic chemistry

Structural formulae, Displayed formulae, Skeletal formulae, Geometrical isomers, Optical Isomers.

UNIT 10.2 Hydrocarbons Alkanes, Alkenes, Free-radical reactions, Crude oil and ‘cracking’, Addition and oxidation reactions.

AS PhysicsTeacher: Mr. Lawrence Exam Time: 2 HoursPractical Exams: Jan 16, 12PM-2PM Written Exam: Jan 24 @ 8AM

TOPICS TO BE COVERED DETAIL

Unit 1: Physical quantities and measurement techniques.

Measuring techniques, collecting data, accuracy & precision, random & systematic, uncertainties, data presentations and analysis.

UNIT 2: Kinematics

Kinematics, distance and time, average speed/velocity, instantaneous velocity, vectors. Accelerated motion, acceleration and deceleration, equations of motion, motion graphs, free-fall, effect of air resistance, 2-dimensional motion.

UNIT 3: Dynamics

Units of measurement, gravity, mass & weight, understanding forces & Newton’s Laws of motion, momentum and collisions

UNIT 4: Forces and Turning Effect. Resultant vectors, moments of force and equilibrium, couples and torques.

UNIT 5: Work, energy and power Work done by a force, GPE and KE, conservation of energy, work done by a gas, power.

UNIT 6: Matter

Density, pressure, tensile and compressive forces, stretching materials & Hooke’s law, describing deformation, strain, stress & Young’s Modulus, and strain energy.

Unit 7 Electric fields Attraction and repulsion, electric field, electric fields strength, uniform fields, force on charge placed in a electric field.

Unit 8: Electric Charge & Kirchhoff’s Laws

Kirchhoff’s laws, charge, electric current, voltage, power and resistance.

AS Business StudiesTeachers: Ms. Asmaa and Mr. James

Exam Date: Jan 22, 2018 @ 11AM

Exam Time: 2 hours

The exam will be a 80 mark paper.

The exam will be based on a combination of AS

level Business studies:

Paper 1-(Short Answer and Essay) and Paper 2-

(Data Response)

Students will need a calculator.

Topics covered and to be included for the Mock Examination are as follows:

Unit 1 – Business and its Environment· Enterprise

· Business Structure

· Size of Business

· Business Objectives

Stakeholders in a Business

Unit 2 – People in Organisations· Management and leadership

· Motivation

Human Resource Management

Unit 3 – Marketing· What is Marketing ?

· Market Research

AS General StudiesTeachers: Mr. Rob

Exam Date: Jan 23, 2018 @ 8AMExam Time: 2 Hours

Students will write two (2) essays of 600 words each.(100 marks)

Topics covered and to be included for the Mock Examination are as follows:Section 1: • The role of history and war; terrorism. • The role of the individual in society – the family, marriage, peer pressure, class. • Cultural changes – youth and drug culture. • Education and welfare. • Sport, leisure, international competition. • Wealth; changes in work practice. • The importance and impact of tourism on a country – implications for the economy, employment, public transport, environmental concerns. • The provision and politics of aid. • The State and its institutions; development of State, democracy, post-imperialism, nationalism. • Minority groups, pressure groups. • Freedom of speech, action, thought. • Judiciary. • Matters of conscience, faith, tolerance, equality, opportunity. • Corruption.

Section 2: • Medical dilemmas and issues of research and

ethics; concept of progress in science. • Drug manufacture

and provision. • Diet, health education. • Old and new

industries. • Spin-offs from space industry; weaponry. •

Information and communications technology; the Internet. •

Environmental concerns; renewable energy resources;

climate change. • Migration; population dynamics. • Feeding

the global population; farming techniques for the twenty-first

century. • Public transport and travel. • The uses and

applications of mathematics in everyday life.

Section 3: • Literature, biography, diary, science fiction. •

Language – heritage, tradition, dialect. • The global media –

tv, radio, satellite; influence and controls; effects on lifestyle,

culture and habits; cultural dilution and diversification;

advertising; role models. • Censorship; privacy; the right to

know; freedom of the press, etc. uses and abuses. •

Traditional arts and crafts; creativity; national

heritage/preservation; effects of tourism. • Architecture;

painting; fashion; photography; sculpture; music; heritage.

AS Information TechnologyTeacher: Mr. BenPractical Exams: Jan 17, 11AM-1:30PM Theory Exam: Jan 23, 11AM-1PM

Theory Paper 2hrs 00,mins Details of areas to be covered

Chapter 1. Data, information, knowledge and processing

Data, information and knowledgeSources of dataQuality of informationCoding, encoding and encrypting data

Chapter 2. Hardware and software HardwareSystem, application and user interface softwareUtility softwareCustom written software and off-the-shelf software

Chapter 3. Monitoring and Control Identify sensorsMonitoring technologies in everyday life

Chapter 4. E-Safety and Health and Safety Personal data handlingUnauthorized person preventionMalware issuesRange of potential health and safety issues that could arise from using ICT

Practical Paper 2hrs 30 mins Details of areas to be covered

Chapter 8. Spreadsheets Structure, purpose, formatting,Formulae and functions, validation and rules, data sorting, import, export.

AS ArabicTeachers: Mr. Abdelrahman, Ms. Eman, Mr. Islam Exam Time: 2 Hours

Exam Date: Jan 24, 2018 @ 11AM

Topic Detail

القراءة

. فھم المقروء -

. استخراج بعض المفردات من النص -.الترجمة من اللغة العربیة إلى اللغة الإنجلیزیة -

.ضبط الكلمات ضبطاً كاملاً -

الكتابة

.كتابة المقال -

Revise Past papers questions.

AS Islamic Studies (English)

1. Soart al- Faatihah-122

2. Soorat – Al- Iklhlaas

3. Qur’an

4. The rebuilding of the Ka’abah

5. Meditation in the cave of Hiraa

6. Prophet hood the first revelation

7. The pause of revelation

8. The call to Islam in Makkah

9. The early Muslim

10. The call to Islam in Makkah

11. Essentials of the prophet’s call of his people

Teachers: Ms. Haya, Ms. Amel Mr. Mo’tasem, Exam Time: 2 Hours

Exam Date: Jan 17, 2018 @ 8AM

12. The Quraysh reject the Messenger of

Allah and his messenger

13. The Quraysh take action

14. Quraysh Approach Abu Taalib

15. The Muslim Emigration to Ethiopia

16. Why Abyssinia

17. The boycott the year of the Grief

18. The journey to at- Taaif

19. The night journey and the Ascension to

Heaven

20. Madinah Residents Embrace Islam.

21. Scientific Miracles in the Qur’an.

AS Islamic Studies (Arabic)Teachers: Ms. Haya, Ms. Amel Mr. Mo’tasem, Exam Time: 2 Hours

Exam Date: Jan 17, 2018 @ 8AM

ملاحظات الموضوع المجال

المیزان العقیدة الإسلامیة

أحكام النسب و الرضاع الفقھ الإسلامي

أم المؤمنین عائشة السیرة و البحوث

إصلاح ذات البین الآداب و الأخلاق

(حفظ الآیات من (22-16 ( سورة ( ق ( القرآن الكریم ( حفظ

تفسیر الإعجاز القرأني و أھمیتھ ( القرآن الكریم ( تفسیر

من طرق الخیر الحدیث النبوي

IGCSE 2nd Language EnglishTeacher: Ms. Kawthar Exam Time: 2 HoursExam Date: Jan @ 8AM

TOPICS TO BE COVERED DETAIL

Paper 2 Reading and writing UNITS 11-16 Past papers Paper 4 Listening

Students are expected to answer 7 exercises that will test their reading and writing abilities in the following areas: 1. Reading exercise2. Reading exercise3. Information transfer4. Note-making5. Summary writing (100-120 words)6. Article writing (150-200 words)7. Letter writing (150-200 words)

IGCSE MathTeacher: Ms. Jabeen Exam Time: 2 HoursExam Date: Jan 21 @ 8AM

CORE: TOPICS INCLUDED DETAILS

Chapters 1 TO 20 (EXCEPT CHAPTERS 17 & 19)

From the textbook IGCSE Mathematics by K. Morrison

Past paper questions on the above From Cambridge International Examinations, CORE: Papers 1 and 3EXTENDED: Papers 2 and 4

All year 10 and year 11 topics Use all worksheets, short assessments and tests given

IGCSE Biology

Teacher: Ms. Hanadi Exam Time: 2 HoursExam Date: Jan 25 @ 8AM

IGCSE Biology

IGCSE PhysicsTeacher: Ms. Elena Exam Time: 2 HoursExam Date: Jan 21 @ 8AM

IGCSE Physics

Best Wishes On Your Exams!!