November 2020

Dear Students/Parents/Carers

Please find below the schedule for the Year 11 mock exams, which will take place between Monday 25 January and Friday 5 February 2021. 

The aim of the mock exam period is primarily to help students to plan and refine their approach to preparing for exams.  On Friday 4 December students will have a Mock Preparation Lesson in which they will create their own tailored revision schedule for use at home over the coming weeks.  We would encourage parents to look at the revision schedule that their son or daughter produces to refine it further and support them with putting it into practice. 

This year, due to public health restrictions, all exams will take place in normal lesson time and normal classrooms, as shown on the schedule below.  To minimise lost curriculum time students will not be provided study leave this year.  They will attend school as normal throughout the mock exam period.

We have gathered lots of useful material on the website here:

https://www.brookfield.hants.sch.uk/exammock11.php

This includes:

Year 11 students will have a video assembly on Monday 30 November to introduce the mock exams, to show them the website materials, and provide all the details they need to know to be prepared for the exams.

The Government have been clear that GCSEs will take place in summer 2021.  But there is always the potential of change, and if exams are cancelled it could be that teachers will need to make a judgement about what grades students are were most likely to have achieved if the exams had gone ahead, as we did last year with the previous cohort.  So, it is very important that students prepare thoroughly for the mock exams, and do their very best, as the results of the exams may be one of the pieces of evidence used to establish Centre Assessed Grades if they are required.

We don’t want to place any undue pressure on students but with the current uncertainties we want to be upfront and make sure students are best prepared for possible changes ahead.

Please find the mock exam schedule below, and do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. 

Yours sincerely

Mr P Pease
Deputy Headteacher

Mock Exam Schedule 2020-2021