Thursday, April 19, 2007
Of remedials, tests and exam. @ 8:20 AM
Dear all sec-one-ders, I have finish marking your test papers. One word, BAD. I clearly can see many of you never study. As a result, I will from now onwards for this year, provide you with pre-emptive tips (early warning) for every lessons and events (test, exams, etc) on my blog. It is then on the effort of everyone to check my blog (blog committee, please help to spread the info to your resepective classes).REMEDIAL
First of all, the issue of remedial. The following dates are set out according for each class at the AVA room.
Monday, 23rd April 2007, 2.00pm-3.00pm: Sec 1A, 1C.
Tuesday, 24th April 2007, 2.00pm-3.00pm: Sec 1E, 1F.
Tuesday, 24th April 2007, 3.00pm-4.00pm: Sec 1B.
Wednesday, 25th April 2007, 2.00pm-3.00pm: Sec 1G, 1H.
Assessment Referral Books
There are 5 assesment books in the library for everyones' use. You can use it to help you prepare attempting questions that are different in approaches. Unfortunately, you cannot take the books out. Among the books, there is Earth, Our Home Guidebook, it is really good and it is written by none other than our vice-principal, Mr Nathan. I strongly recommend having a copy for your own use.
EXAMS
Exams will be on the 8th May 2007, Tuesday. Exam topics will cover from chapter 1 to chapter 13, excluding chapter 7. You will have MCQs, mapwork, photo intepretations, short answer questions and you have to answer 3 out of 5 structured questions based on the heavier content chapters.
I will be posting more tips for all of you in the next following days to come., but here are some basic things to look out for each chapter.
Chapter 1: What is a physical or human environment? What is a physical or human feature?
Chapter 2: The Earth's rotation, revolution, time and what is a good steward?
Chapter 3: What is the relationship betwen man and his environment (both physical and human)
Chapter 4: The types and uses of maps, What is latitude, longitude, greenwich or prime meridian, equator, International Date Line & time zones (for express students only), How to read longitiude and latitude.
Chapter 5 (the killer): 4-grid reference, 6-grid reference, Easting, Northing, scales, compass direction, measuring distances, bearings, Drawing cross sections of landforms (with all the required parts)
Chapter 6: the 3 types of photographs, their advantages and disadvantages, how to see the foreground, midground and background of landscape photographs, recognising human and physical features, rural or urban environment.
Chapter 8: Explaining the 5 types of landforms, describe the positive and negative effects of landforms.
Chapter 9: Where is the core, mantle and crust? How is crustal movement caused by convection current in the mantle? What is folding and fold mountains? what happens when plates move away and towards each other? What is vulcanicity? What is the relationship betwen magma, lava & cinder? How is vulcanic eruption caused by? The parts of a volcano. How is a cone volcano created? What is active, dormant and extinct volcano?
Chapter 10: Risks and benefits of living with a volcano.
Chapter 11: Describing the 3 types of mechanical weathering, chemical weathering, erosion, by wind, water and waves. What is weathering and what is erosion?
Chapter 12: Explain the formation and features of the 3 types of rocks, 3 examples of each type of rock, how does one rock change to another in a rock cycle.
Chapter 13: The amount of water distributed in the world, describe briefly each part of the hydrological cycle, what is a tributary, distrubtary, drainage basin and watershed? Recongnise the parts of the river system like river source, meander, delta, etc.
If you can answer all the questions here, you are certain to pass the exams. Post more queries when in doubt, I will now check every night to post up answers to your questions. Blog committee, please inform the class of this recent tips, thanks.