YEAR 9 MOCK EXAMINATIONS

ART

The mock exam will be based on the Artist study which students have been given for their first Year 9 assessment. They will be able to prepare by completing the research, writing notes and a draft analysis of the artist’s work. They should also produce a copy of the artist’s work to their highest standard. Students will be completing the mock assessment in class. The standard of their presentation and writing will be assessed along with an assessment of their skill level in drawing and painting.

COMPUTING

Python, binary numbers, ASCII character representation, digital graphics and digital sound, HTML and flowcharts

DT

Design Process

Workshop tools and equipment 

Material categories 

Material Processing (Pulping)

6 R's of Sustainability 

Product Life Cycle Assessment 

Environment Impacts 

Sustainability

Identifying drawing communication technique

Impact of using Batteries 

CAD

Modelling 

ENGLISH

The task is to produce a piece of descriptive writing based on an image.  The image will be linked to ideas studied in 'The Book Thief'.  Students should use a wide range of language techniques such as similes, metaphors, personification, and pathetic fallacy.  Use ambitious and powerful key vocabulary.  Include structural techniques such as juxtaposition, foreshadowing, and motif.  Also, include a range of sentence types (simple, compound, embedded, and subordinate clauses) as well as a wide variety of ambitious punctuation in their writing.

FOOD

Nutrition

Diet

Where food comes from

Food Science - linked to practical work

FRENCH

The main focus of the mock exam will be Unit 1- Healthy Living.

Students should revise key vocabulary from this topic and the grammar rules for forming past, present, and future tenses. There will also be a small amount of content based on the topic of school. The writing task will require the use of extended sentences; therefore, students should also revise connectives, time phrases, intensifiers, and opinions. Teachers will provide a knowledge organiser in advance, which should be used as the main revision tool.

GEOGRAPHY

What is a natural hazard?  The structure of the earth, hazard risk, plate boundaries (location & types), tectonic theories, convection currents, earthquakes, & volcanoes.  Map skills such as grid references, human and physical geographical features, distance and geographical skills.

HISTORY

Causes of World War One, The Battle of the Somme (General Haig), Life in the trenches (conditions), Causes of the Russian Revolution

MANDARIN

The exam will be a reading exam in Chinese characters only, and will be challenging.  Students need to focus on recognising job vocabulary in particular, but also: forms of transport, places in town, food, family members.  These are all in the students' vocabulary booklets.  There will be a 30-words writing in Chinese characters, based on the places and transport topic. 

MATHS

A revision list is included at the end of this document

MUSIC

Your mock exam will include both practical and theoretical/listening tasks.  Your practical will be based on work in class and the listening/theoretical mock will be multiple-choice questions based on your musical learning throughout KS3 (but with more focus on Blues). Students can prepare by revising all musical elements using Dr P Smith revision sheet which your teacher will upload for you to help you revise.  

RE

Year 9 will be assessed by a 1 Hour written exam.

Topic 1 - Ethics

• How we make ethical decisions?
• Absolute and relative morality meanings and examples.
• Situation ethics - who proposed it?
• Main teachings of agape and Christian love based on the teachings of Jesus and how it can be used to make decisions.  
• Examples of situations where this ethical theory could be used/put to the test - to save lives, dilemmas like stealing or killing.
• Utilitarianism - Who proposed it?
• Main principal of the greatest good for the greatest number in society – with examples of how it is used / put to the test.
• Own views on Situation ethics and utilitarianism

Topic 2 - Crime and punishment

• What are laws, crimes and sins?
• Why do laws need to be just and fair?
• Why do people commit crime?
• What are the 4 aims of punishment?

Evaluation response of a statement linked to capital punishment.

You will need to give reasons why people would agree and disagree with the statement, evaluation of the strength of the evidence and write a personal conclusion.

Revision and preparation

You will have practiced questions in your mock prep lesson and have a written plan that you will need to take home and learn for the mock exam.

Your RE teacher will also send out on Frog, a revision power point for you to use to revise at home.

SCIENCE

Physics:

• The particle model
• Density calculations and density practical
• Internal energy
• Specific heat capacity calculations and practical
• Specific latent heat
• Motion of gases

Chemistry:

• Atoms.  elements, compounds, and mixtures
• Separating mixtures
• The structure of the atom
• The development of the model of the atom
• Electron configuration
• Trends and patterns in the periodic table
• The development of the periodic table over time

Biology:

• Plant and animal cells
• Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
• Tissues, organs, and organs systems
• Microscopes and magnification calculations

SPANISH

Unit 1 - Relationships and first section of Unit 2 – Leisure and interests  

Revision content:  

Students should revise the following vocabulary: family members, personality and physical descriptions, key verbs and expressions to describe relationships, opinions on ideal partner and marriage, free time activities (music, films, sports, TV programmes), verbs, and adjectives to express/justify opinion.  Students should also revise using past, present, future, conditional and future tenses and be prepared to complete a writing task, and reading and translation questions. Teachers will provide a knowledge organiser in advance, which should be used as the main revision tool. For further support on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, students are encouraged to visit the YouTube channel ‘v gonzalez otero’. 

Number

Video

Algebra

Video

Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages

123, 126

Collecting like terms

9

Time calculations

322

Substitution

20

Rounding – watch video on www.mathsgenie.co.uk

Solving Equations

110

Prime numbers

225

Laws of indices

17

Simplifying ratios

269

nth term of sequences

288

Highest common factor

219

Geometric sequences

375

Lowest common multiples

218

Expanding single brackets

13

Sharing in a ratio

270, 271

Simplifying algebraic fractions

24

Fraction and % problems

137, 234

Calculations in standard form

301, 302, 303

Shape and Space

Video

Percentage change

233

Angles on a straight line

35

Angles in parallel lines

25

Data and Probability

Video

Surface area of a cuboid

310

Drawing pie charts

163

Translating shapes with vector

325

Bar charts

148

Circumference of a circle

60

Probability of an event

245

Pythagoras

257

Finding the mean

53

Exterior angles of polygons

32

Mean and mode from a frequency table

54, 56a

Using trigonometry to find missing sides

330

Volume of a prism

356