Yesterday I visited the Queen Elizabeth School in Hexham to deliver a couple of sessions on exam technique to the AS and A2 students. Both sessions were an hour and we looked at different techniques and strategies to help develop the key exam skills of application, analysis and evaluation. Each session started with a quick game of Thinking Skills Bingo to re-cap core content with several A2 students getting a 'full house' in ratio bingo.We then looked at some other key techniques such as stepping stones, a 'BLT with 'such as' seasoning', balloon analysis and some strategies to help ensure decisions within evaluation questions are well supported as well as a couple of other teaching and learning strategies.I had a great day and I'm looking forward to another school visit in Darlington tomorrow