Your exams and the results you achieve will have a huge impact on the opportunities that will be open to you moving forward. Within this section we will be giving some hints and tips on how to handle Revision, the Exams themselves and also the inevitable results, whether good or bad.
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” - Benjamin Franklin
This is a very true statement, those students that do not set aside time to revise for their exams are not going to achieve the best results they can, at most they will coast through the exam, at worst they will fail. The following tips will help you when working through your revision:
Knowing where to start or testing yourself may sometimes be difficult, for that reason there are a number of resources available to help you with your revision. The following websites are great at providing general revision advice and guidance.
Website | How can it help? |
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www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/advice/studying_work /school_studying |
This site has tips relating to the basics of revision along with a section called Blitzing Exams. |
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize | Provides a subject by subject revision guide, along with video, audio and games to help. There is also a message board, and they even have resources for you to use, such as Revision Maps that you can fill in and print out. |
www.schoolsnet.com | If you click on the hot courses tap you will find revision topics for Business Studies, DT, English, Geography, History, ICT, Maths, MFL, RE and Science. |
www.s-cool.co.uk | Provide GCSE and A Level revision material for free. They have a revision tips section, along with articles to provide general advice and guidance. There are also separate areas for GCSE and A Level to work through. |
www.revisiontime.com | This is a site that has a list of helpful links that are set up subject by subject. It also covers revision for GCSE and A Level subjects—they have even included ‘break time’ links to provide relief from revision. |
If you are looking for revision guides for specific subjects the following websites will be helpful:
Subject | Website | How it can help? |
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IT | www.reviseict.co.uk/revision | This is a great site that provides students with help on specific topics, general revision and interactive practice exam papers. |
Geography | www.pupilvision.com | This is an award winning site that was created by Keith Phipps at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys. It has lots of information that will help you with Geography revision. |
Science | www.abpischools.org.uk | This is the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's site and has a range of science modules that are aimed at a range of different age groups. |
www.my-gcsescience.com/core | This is a great site providing videos on key topics within each of the three core science subjects for GCSE for free, along with notes. For an added subscription cost you can also have access to over 400 marks worth of exam questions for unit 2 and 3 papers, along with answers and commentary. | |
Maths and Science | www.skoool.co.uk | This is a site that has been made available through the London Grid for Learning but will be helpful to anyone studying Maths, Biology, Chemistry or Physics anywhere. |
Maths | www.counton.org | This site is supported by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, and includes a wide range of resources and activities. |
www.studymaths.co.uk | Free GCSE Maths revision site aimed at helping you with GCSE Math, there are hundreds of worksheets, past question papers and games to improve your maths abilities and hopefully grade. | |
www.examsolutions.net | Specialises in helping students improve maths at GCSE and A Level. | |
History | www.schoolhistory.co.uk | This is a great site providing not only resources and activities for students, but also lessons and even a history forum. |
English | www.englishbiz.co.uk | A great site to help students with their GCSE English Language and Literature. Skills focused and written by an experienced English teacher. It provides information on reaching for the higher grades |
We all get nervous and stress over taking exams, we wouldn’t be human if we didn’t. Below is a list of hints and tips to remember when taking your exams: