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Secondary School Exam Years

One exam calendar, an honest picture of every subject, revision your child owns, weekly wellbeing check-ins, well-made subject and post-16 choices, and calm handling of mocks, exam days, results and reviews.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Secondary School Exam Years, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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Secondary School Exam Years

Supporting a child through major secondary school exams with revision plans, wellbeing checks and subject or course choices.

  1. Exam timetable and key dates calendar
  2. Exam board and specification list for every subject
  3. Current grades and targets snapshot by subject
  4. Agreeing how much help your teenager wants
  5. School contacts for the exam years
  6. Exam access arrangements check with the school
  7. Home revision space and kit
  8. Wellbeing baseline before exam season
  9. Protecting exam season in the family calendar
  10. Revision timetable built back from the first exam
  11. Sunday revision plan review together
  12. Past paper practice log
  13. Monthly progress check against targets
  14. Exam-year sleep routine
  15. Exam-season meals and snacks
  16. Weekly wellbeing check-in walk
  17. Coursework and non-exam assessment deadline tracker
  18. Friday evening off and weekly exercise
  19. Lighter household duties during exam season
  20. How effective revision works
  21. Grades, grade boundaries and what they mean
  22. Mark schemes and examiner reports together
  23. Quizzing your child from their own flashcards
  24. Exam timing and command word practice
  25. Talking about grades without adding pressure
  26. Telling exam nerves from something that needs help
  27. Understanding post-16 routes and qualifications
  28. Choosing exam subjects at options time
  29. Choosing post-16 subjects and courses
  30. Sixth form, college or apprenticeship decision
  31. Deciding whether a tutor is worth it
  32. Foundation or higher tier entry decision
  33. Part-time job and clubs during the exam year
  34. Mock exams preparation and debrief
  35. Parents' evening in an exam year
  36. Spring break revision fortnight
  37. Exam day kit and morning routine
  38. Results day plan with a fallback
  39. Marking the end of exams
  40. Exam years across two homes
  41. Exam season around a full-time job
  42. Maths or English resit year
  43. Illness or bereavement during exams
  44. Exam years after moving from another school system
  45. Re-engaging a teenager who has stopped revising
  46. Review of marking after results
  47. Entering as a private candidate for a missed subject
  48. Extended project or additional qualification decision
  49. Exam certificates and results archive
  50. Exam years debrief for younger siblings

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Exam timetable and key dates calendar

Written exams, practicals, orals, coursework hand-ins and mock weeks are scattered across months and published in different places, and a missed oral or late coursework deadline can cost marks that revision cannot win back. Pulling every date into the family calendar now means your child sees the whole season at once and nobody books a holiday on a speaking exam.

First tasks

  • Ask your child for the provisional exam timetable the school has shared
  • Add every paper, oral and practical to the family calendar with start times
  • Ask each subject teacher for coursework and non-exam assessment deadlines
  • Print the timetable and put it up next to the revision desk
  • Recheck the timetable against the final candidate timetable when the school issues it @recurring(yearly)

Exam board and specification list for every subject

Two schools teaching the same subject can follow different exam boards, with different papers, topics and question styles, and revision guides bought for the wrong board waste money and time. A one-page list of board, specification code and tier for each subject is what every later purchase, past paper search and tutor conversation starts from.

First tasks

  • Check exercise books and school letters for exam board names
  • Email the school if any subject's board or specification is unclear
  • Save each specification's official page link in one shared note
  • Share the finished list with your child

Current grades and targets snapshot by subject

Parents often have one vague number per subject from the last report, while the school holds working grades, targets and mock results that tell a much clearer story. Laying them side by side shows where your child is comfortable, where they are close to a boundary and where effort will move the most marks.

First tasks

  • Find the most recent school report or parent portal grades
  • Copy current and target grades for each subject into one table
  • Sit down with your child and mark each subject secure, borderline or behind
  • Agree the two or three subjects that get extra time first

Make it yours.

Install Secondary School Exam Years, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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