Response to Week 3 Consultation

First of all, thank you for your attendance and feedback for consultation.
Here are some responses to your feedback given.

1) Suggestion to practise Paper 1 and Paper 2. Mock exam. Improve time management.
Go through answers immediately in 2nd half of consultation period.
- Definitely will have timed practice. Be prepared.
- Paper 1 need time to mark so it is difficult to give immediate feedback
- Application of Paper 2 skills - please bring SSQ notes
- Time yourself using an alarm clock, like what I do in class.

2) Reinforcement of skills
- Practise, correction, consultation.

3) In-depth elaboration about marker's comment.
- Fix 1-to-1 personal consultation time with either marker or tutor. Subject to available slots and initiative.

4) Go through entire essay. Going through what or why went wrong.
- It is very draining and taxing to go through the entire essay for each student for a class in 3 hours, although I aim to do so as far as possible. Hence, today's consultation was focused on improving introduction and argument construction, and I have given personal consultation to every student.
- Understand the marker's comments and do your corrections to close the learning gaps.

5) Go through answering the essay question
- Have done that during question analysis session earlier. Handout given and gone through. Where were you?

6) Go through how to construct topic sentences.
- Since the essay is already written, it is best that you correct the topic sentences written, ask yourself if it answers the question, then seek peer or tutor's feedback. If your question analysis is wrong in the first place, your TS will most probably be wrong too.

7) Devote 1 hour to skill revision and discussion. More interaction
- Correction is considered as skill revision?
- Definitely will have time for skill revision, see 1)
- Discussion about what? Issues? We have done topical discussion for the past 2 years. Please get back to me on this.
- Interaction in terms of? Debate? Group work? 7 more weeks to end of Term 3.

8) Content for less popular topics
- Content lectures were postponed due to HINI so perhaps you can read up on the topics that you are interested in from the recommended websites earlier.

9) 2 periods of consultation only
- Not within my control.

My observations are some students are still not giving their best despite the urgency towards A Levels, as they are not focusing on their tasks, long and frequent breaks and poor attendance. So much so as I can give you professional guidance, it is your future at risk so it is your choice to decide what warrants your focus.