Exam Review Deck

About this template

A deck for two weeks before the exam

Ten slides for compressing material already taught – an exam review class, the final session of a certification course, a study-group briefing. It is too short for teaching new concepts: cover, agenda, two divider-plus-body pairs, a comparison slide, key figures, a trend chart and a closing slide.

The agenda is already exam-shaped

It reads scope, marks by unit, frequent errors and how to get them right, key figures, trend – five lines in the order students actually ask about, with no generic lesson wording to strip out. Change it only for subject reasons: for a practical subject make the third line the marking scheme, for an essay subject make it answer structure, and edit the slide 7 title with it. Steps this file does not have, such as an error review or a memorisation check, need a new agenda line and new slides, not just the line.

Two pairs and three single slides

The file contains only two divider-plus-body pairs (3-4 for scope, 5-6 for marks); the remaining three agenda lines are carried one slide each by slide 7 (frequent errors and how to get them right), slide 8 (key figures) and slide 9 (the trend bars). To open several units separately, either duplicate the 5-6 pair per unit and add the matching agenda lines, or keep two on screen and hand out the rest on paper. For a one-hour session the handout wins; students remember what they annotate.

Exam facts in the three body lines

Each body slide is one lead line plus three items, and the shipped text models it well: scope states pages 78 to 145, all three handout sets, and the two excluded units – inclusions and exclusions together. The marks slide follows with unit 3 carrying the most at 32, unit 1 at 8 and deprioritised, and two written questions worth 20 separately. Keep that shape when you substitute your own exam: “Unit 3 trigonometric ratios – in 4 of the last 5 papers, 4 marks, usually the second written item”; “Trap: angles given in radians with the answer expected in degrees, seen in 2023 and 2025”; “Memorise the six sin and cos values for 30, 45 and 60 degrees, writable in three minutes without a table.” Drop “this is important” – frequency and marks do that job.

Matching the tiles and the sitting-by-sitting bars

The four tiles read 67 pages in scope, 32 marks in the heaviest unit, 5 years of past papers, 24 questions. They are the right kind of number, but they must agree with the body: 67 is the span from page 78 to 145, and 32 is the same figure as on the marks slide, so edit them together. If time allowed and the multiple-choice share matter more, replace the past-paper tile. The chart (62, 71, 78, 86 across four mock sittings) works even better as accuracy by unit – 78, 64, 41, 55 – which shows where revision time should go. The bars are shapes, so resize them after editing.

Where review decks fail

• Copying the whole syllabus onto slides; the point is compression and priority.
• Showing answers without explaining why the wrong options are wrong.
• Pasting screenshots of past papers – unreadable from the back, and a copyright risk. Retype the question and keep only the conditions that matter.
• Leaving slide 7 on the sample error types. Swap in the question numbers your own class got wrong, so students hear it as their own paper.
• Ending on the closing phrase alone – the exam date, what to bring and the arrival time appear nowhere in this file, so put those three lines on the last slide.