What make(s) of GCSE revision guides would you recommend?
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What make(s) of GCSE revision guides would you recommend?
not cgp, theyre so stupid its unbelievable!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
My gcse module science exam went ok today which was good but i thought all my exams would be over for this year but i realised after my exam that i got a french oral in July. Nooooooo!
i would recommend the ones your school sends and i also like CGP for some but they can be confusing. they explain it simply. but ones that are layed out well in the sense that its clear and not too cluttered :)
i quite like cgp books for some info but they do cram it all in quite a bit.
I wouldn't bother with any of them, really. Just go onto their websites and print the course Specification. Tells you everything you need to know, and nothing more! Works for me, at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
im in year 10 and i just had a maths paper to do, which was hard.
I'm doing Maintenance of Life and Electricity :) Good luck to you and everyone else :DQuote:
Originally Posted by daveywavey
I use CGP books but they are bit confusing,I go on revision websites mainly.
i only used CGP for maths as they do it really clearly. for science i use lonsdale ones and they work really well, so try and get your hands on tose ones!Quote:
Originally Posted by ~ Clo ~
i used cgp books for science and business studies (mainly cos the school provided them for us and im a cheapskate lol!) but tbh yeh they might lay things out clearly and simply, but the stupid jokes get annoying very quickly and when its too simple, it doesnt always help you that muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Lisamaxwellfan
Yeah, they do. Like in the KS3 one where it said about some method being 10 out of 10 for fun when 1 is having so many teeth pulled and 10 is having a certain number of teeth pulled or something. I went shopping yesterday and got a CGP History one as I know the school uses it and I couldn't find one in another range that did the correct course. I also got a letts one for Geography and the shop didn't have any other ranges.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco
How do you order the CGP free catalogue from their website?
i dont know how to order the catalogue, sorry, my school normally does that, but id advise you to wait a bit before buying anymore revision guides cos your school might be able to order them for you and then you get them loads cheaper
I would, the only problem with my school is that they only give you the chance to get them like 1 month prior to the exam, which is what annoyedc me before the SATs.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco
Had my first day of mocks today!Went alright! Wooo hooo another week of them now :rolleyes:
I got a mock oral exam in french in 2 weeks and i got to learn two role plays and three conversation topics. My teacher will choose one of the conversation topics on the day of the oral exam and then i will have to talk to the examiner on the topic i have learnt. Also i got french coursework to do as well and i will have to learn that so i am quite busy considering it's nearly the end of the school year.
ive finished my exams - finally. just got wait till the end of august untill i can get my results now - so unfair.
i know, so unfair. everyone keeps saying how did you do and it's like i haven't a clue until i get my reults!Quote:
Originally Posted by lollymay
that the same with me - and its two months away aswell - they drag it out way to much.
I'm now reading through some revision guides to get ahead before I start my GCSEs. I can hardly remember anything - I'll fail them at this rate:angry:
Dont worry about it kim, its amazing how much stuff you remember in the exams, and i didnt do hardly any revision either.
dont worry kim, you probably havent even seen most of the stuff before so you wont fail them once youve learnt it! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
yeh exactly, you panic so much cos theres so much to remember, but when you get in the exam you seem to remember a lot more than you realise, for gcse, i only started revision about 2 days before each exam and it seemed to work ok for me!Quote:
Originally Posted by lollymay
same here... the teachers go on starting ages ahead and you really don't need to... if you want it to stick then maybe but cramming works so much better!Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco
cramming works for me cos otherwise i forget it before the exam lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisamaxwellfan
I haven't started them yet, but is it natural to remember literally nothing out of a revision guide?
erm i dont really understand what you mean? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
Well I'm still in year 9, but started reading some stuff out of a revision guide, and I can't remember much. Is that normal?Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco
erm was it a gcse revision guide?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
Yeah it was a gcse revision guide.
yeh cos you havent actually learnt it yet and the revision guides dont teach it to you properly, its more of a step-by-step thing to help you remember once youve learnt it, but if you havent learnt it yet then theres no way youre going to remember it just from a revision guideQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
I am in Year 11 next year so will be sitting my gcses, i just want some advice from members who have sat their gcses. Should you start revising early or do you think it's ok to revise just before the exam so you have it fresh in your mind? What revision methods do you use?
Thanks, i just want to know some advice so i know what i am doing next year when it comes to revising for my gcses. :)
well it really depends what works for you. apart from the revision we did in lessons, i didnt do any revision til a few days before each exam, basically once one exam was over i started revising for the next one and so on. i find cramming helps me a lot personally cos then i dont have to remember for long periods of time and it seemed to work well for my gcses. what i did was not revise for my mocks which i did and when i found out how much i didnt know i decided that cramming would be ok, but if i had done really badly in the mocks and hadnt known anything then i might have revised earlier. but really its different for everyone, so just cos i personally found cramming worked well for me it might not necessarily do for youQuote:
Originally Posted by daveywavey
well for me id just read all the stuff the day before the exam cos id remember it that way - i cannot revise ove a long period of time- it doesnt work for me
but everyone is different and you will find your own way of revising.
Ok thanks. :) Yeah your right everyone is different and i will probably find my own way of revising. I will probably revise over a long period of time to be honest that's what i did with SATs last year so hopefully it will work for my gcses.
I just wanted to know how everyone else revised. :)
Heya im going to be away when all of you get your results i think so i just want to say well done to everyone i bet you all did really well, oh yer and congrats lol.
only 1 day away till results! how is everyone feeling? im so nervous at the moment!
awwww im sure youll do fine, good luck to everyone! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by lollymay
I'm pretty nervous and trying not to think about it, even though everyone keeps asking! I'm only really worried about French, but still I think I'll be losing sleep over it! Good luck to all :)
Good luck everyone im suer you will be fine. Im goinjg to pick my mates up with him he wont go on his own the big baby.