Here are some reasons why they are important and why students should make the most of them.

• Almost as important as the content is the technique of answering questions. Mock exams provide an opportunity to test what type of questions they are answering well and what type of questions they still need to practise in order to gain more marks.
• Mock exams provide students with an opportunity to practise sitting exams in formal situations. They replicate the exact procedures of the summer exams, allowing students to practise with invigilators, adrenaline flowing, and the clock ticking away. It is only by doing this that they will know how to cope under this pressure.
• Effective revision techniques are crucial in committing content to memory for retrieval in an exam. Mock exams allow students to see if the way they revise works in an exam situation. If revision techniques are working, they can continue, happy in the knowledge that they have tested them out. If they have not worked, there is still time to change and find another method that is more effective.

Mock exams are the dress rehearsal for the real exams in the summer, the exams that count. However, the wonderful difference with this dress rehearsal, is that they are not the day before or even the week before, but several months before. There is still plenty of time to put everything that they have learnt from the process into place for the exams that truly matter in May and June. 

Timings of Mock Examinations

Morning Examinations will start at 0925 in both Fernbrook and Riverside.

Afternoon Examinations will start at 1300 in both Fernbrook and Riverside.