For all informations regarding reports and assessments 2009, please see attached booklet which includes information on Key Dates, Questions You Might Have, and Rules for Assessments

Senior Assessment Week May 2009

Yellow highlighted Subject = an actual assessment event (not just practice)

NCEA

NCEA is the national qualification for all Year 11- 13 students.
NCEA uses standards (achievement standards and unit standards) to show what students know and can do. 

Every standard is worth a set number of credits. 

You collect credits when you achieve the standard. 

When you have a total of 80 credits you have your NCEA at Level 1*. 
* To attain NCEA Level 1, you must have at least 8 credits showing you have Literacy skills and 8 credits showing you have Numeracy skills.

**11 STUDY DAYS TILL EXAMS**

*1 SCHOOL DAY TILL EXAMS*

Final Tip: 

In the words of Douglas Adams (The Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy)

DON'T PANIC!

• First of all, panicking produces adrenaline, which is great if you're in a race, but it inhibits concentration. Not good. 
• Second of all, you still have time. Not a lot of time, but you still have time. If you
  haven't started studying yet, clear your calendar and start tonight. No
  more 90210 till after exams.

**12 STUDY DAYS TILL EXAMS**

*2 SCHOOL DAYS TILL EXAMS*

Study Tip #14:

Review!

Day One
·1    After you have read and recited the entire chapter, write questions in the margins for those points you have highlighted or underlined.
·2    If you took notes while reciting, write questions for the notes you have taken in the left hand margins of your notebook.

Day Two
·1    Page through the text and/or your notebook to reacquaint yourself with the important points.
·2    Cover the right hand column of your text/note-book and orally ask yourself the questions in the left hand margins.
·3    Orally recite or write the answers from memory.
·4    Make “flash cards” for those questions which give you difficulty.
·5    Develop mnemonic devices for material which need to be memorized.

Days Three, Four and Five
·1    Alternate between your flash cards and notes and test yourself (orally or in writing) on the questions you formulated.
·2    Make additional flash cards if necessary.

**13 STUDY DAYS TILL EXAMS**

*3 SCHOOL DAYS TILL EXAMS*

Study Tip #13:

Recite!

·1    Orally ask yourself questions about what you have just read or summarize, in your own words, what you read.
·2    Take notes from the text but write the information in your own words.
·3    Underline or highlight important points you’ve just read.
·4    Use the method of recitation which best suits your particular learning style but remember, the more senses you use the more likely you are to remember what you read –
 i.e.,
TRIPLE STRENGTH LEARNING: Seeing, saying, hearing-
QUADRUPLE STRENGTH LEARNING: Seeing, saying, hearing, writing!!!