My 14 yr old has to do sats in 6 wks to determine his options.
Can anyone recommend a website that could help him study as he doesnt do very well at school, and if we can work hard for these 6 wks, I am sure it could really help him?
2007-03-20 06:20:37 · 9 answers · asked by tamsin the happy gardener 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Standards & Testing
yeah im doing my SATS in 6 weeks to, a good website is the BBC bitesize page. it has games to help you revise and other cool things. just go to www.bbc.co.uk and follow the links.
Also my parents have bought me CGP revision textbooks in Maths, Science and English and they are really really good! I don't like revising but the books are so useful and can actually be quite funny they also have practice exam questions in so you know what to expect! You can get them really cheap from places like amazon and ebay. Also, it would be worth buying some old exam papers to practice with
Good luck to him, I hope I do well :S
2007-03-20 06:28:35 · answer #1 · answered by just_a_metaphor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be perfectly honest, he is not going to be able to cram in 6 weeks. Yes, sites like bbc bitesize will be able to help him to a degree but he has been given all the info he now needs over the last couple of years.
However, please remember that SATs are really a tool for the school to demonstrate to the Government how they have performed in order to be included in the league tables and should not be used as a stick to beat the pupils to perform well. SATs are only carried out for some compulsory core subjects, anyway.
Your son will know already which subjects he enjoys most and, therefore, probably does best in, and these are the ones he wants to think about in his options. SATs should not be a concern for him -m just tell him to do his best. Good luck to him!
2007-03-20 06:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by Purple 8 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK. At 14, no amount of studying is going to help him learn the things that he has not been taught in school.
When I took the SAT, the vast majority of the Math section was Algebra II. I took Algebra II in 10th grade altho most kids at my school didnt take it until 11th grade. SO, if your son hasn't had certain classes you cant expect him to learn it.
Tell him not to sweat the test and just see how he does. Ultimately it is not the last time he is going to take the test and if he doesnt do well, he doesnt need to develop test taking anxiety b/c of this.
He's probably only in 9th grade and he will honestly have plenty of time to decide what he wants to do and where he's going to go to college. (where i thought i would go to school when I was in 9th grade was not close to where i wound up).
Don't pressure him and stress him out. Tell him to relax and get a good night's sleep the night before. Tell him that this will be to see what he knows now and to show him how much he's going to learn throughout high school.
Good Luck!
2007-03-20 14:26:39 · answer #3 · answered by real_estate_barbie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sats help teachers determine which subjects ur child is best and therefore where to place them ie top,middle or bottom.but they dont determine there options, they shud have picked there options last wk. biggest things that sats are for is money, the better the school does the more they get from the govt.
anyway thats my moan over, prob best site is bbc.bitesize.
but dont put pressure on as this only makes matters worse.
2007-03-20 06:35:32 · answer #4 · answered by Karen P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
www.bbc.co.uk/revision will take you to the biteize website which has lots of interactive games to help enhance his learning. Loads of fun for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. Also the Coordination Group do lots of different revision guides at very reasonable prices £2 etc. They are very colourful and little snippets which will help.
The important thing to do is to just do his best. SATs will help determine groupings but if he over performs it will make the next two years challening! Encourage him to try but not to worry if he does fall below national standards. There is time to make it back up ver key stage 4.
2007-03-20 06:35:39 · answer #5 · answered by JuJu 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go to the school and ask them if they have SAM learning log in codes, that is a fabulous site.
BBC revisewise is good for interactive activities.
The CGP books are good to use as a revision programme, so might be worth investing in once he knows what subjects he wants to follow for GCSE.
Tell him good luck and not to worry too much, the pupils where I work have just sat their mocks and I know it's not nice!!
2007-03-20 06:31:36 · answer #6 · answered by squeegy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you want past sats papers (UK key stage 3) with answers u need emaths website. This site allows you to download past papers, back to 1999, along with markschemes. It's the question format which your child has to get used to and what is expected at each level.
2007-03-20 15:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by samthedog 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.sats-past-papers.co.uk/key_stage_3.php
2007-03-20 06:34:47 · answer #8 · answered by angie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just hide his PS2.
2007-03-20 06:26:50 · answer #9 · answered by Earwigo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋