Preparing for Success and Achievement in the OCR 2023 exams

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This course is aimed at teachers of who are looking to maximise the potential of all their students in the upcoming OCR A Level Chemistry 2023 exams.

The course focuses on final preparations, questions, question types, fine-tuning responses, revision techniques and tactics, the grade descriptors of those top-level grade bands. This will include strategies to help students apply their knowledge and understanding when answering exam questions, identify key information in the question stem and write concise answers using appropriate scientific terminology.

This is an advanced, intense course for teachers of OCR A Level Chemistry; the focus is on the key challenge areas for students. Teachers will take away strategies and methods to stretch, challenge and motivate students of all ability ranges, ready for their exams. In particular the course will hone-in on the most challenging areas, what students need to do to ensure their projected grades don’t slip down, and what, and how they must demonstrate to examiners to achieve high marks.

Please note the topics for the sessions will be adapted as required according to the announcement to change post 07 February 2022.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Provide teachers of A-Level Chemistry with strategies to maximise the success of all their students in the Summer 2023 exams.
• Take away a range of techniques, approaches and materials that can be readily used in teaching to help students to demonstrate and apply their knowledge and understanding of scientific ideas, processes, techniques and procedures
• Confidence to assess and provide constructive feedback to stretch students and enable high exam performance. To ensure that students can apply knowledge and understanding of scientific processes, techniques and procedures in a practical context as well as being able to analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific information, ideas and evidence
• Provide a range of effective exam techniques to prepare students to access high grades by helping them to identify the relevant scientific terminology and detail that they need to use in their answers