Revision
Help on how to revise for GCSEs, condensed notes, tips for exams, example answers and past papers.
How to Revise for GCSEs
Past Papers
Once you have learnt the content, past papers are one of the most effective ways to revise for exams, especially when it comes to essay-based subjects. This is because it not only helps you to identify your weakest topics, but also helps you to become more familiar with the question types that will come up in your GCSEs.
Making Revision Resources
A lot of the time when you think about GCSE revision, you think of the mind maps, posters or flashcards that you will make. However, spending the majority of your revision on this is not a good idea because they are ‘low utility’ revision techniques, since they do not test or apply your knowledge. Many students spend hours condensing their class notes and then going on to make flashcards from them. I did this and wasted quite a few hours, but now you can use my notes and spend more time doing effective revision. Using these resources to actively test your knowledge is far more effective than making them. So use these to make flashcards or use the ones that I have made on anki (linked below).
Revising using Anki
Anki is an online flashcard app that I used throughout year 10 and 11 to learn the content for my humanities and science subjects. I find that it is faster to make flashcards online than it is on paper. There are also so many different flashcard decks that people have shared on the website that you can download if you don’t have the time to make them. There’s also an app version which was so useful for me because it meant that I could revise during downtimes. These are times when you’re waiting to see a teacher, on the bus, or walking to school. Nearer your exams it is important to prepare small tasks for these downtimes, and anki makes this very easy and simple.
Visit the Anki site
My Anki Flashcards
These are the names of all of my flashcard decks. If you want to download them, then just search for them in ‘shared decks’ (linked below).
If you want to use them, you need to download the anki app first and then start revising!
AQA English Literature (205 notes)
AQA GCSE Geography (677 notes)
AQA GCSE RE (629 notes)
AQA GCSE Triple Science higher (2708 notes)