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GCSEs: Six podcasts to help support your pupils

These interviews cover GCSE revision, metacognition, memory, screen time and mental health. Being successful in an exam is down to a complex web of factors that go beyond simply knowing the material you will be tested on. The latter is, of course, a huge part of it. But being prepared mentally – confidence, motivation, reduced anxiety […]

GCSE exams 2019: Five pitfalls to avoid

Exam board AQA shares some common pitfalls of GCSE exam preparation for 2019, and what you can do to avoid them. Whatever subject you teach, you will already be well into your preparation for this summer’s GCSE exams. Here, a member of AQA’s relationship management team, who regularly visits schools to provide advice, describes some […]

GCSE maths: How to make the most of practice papers

Exam board AQA shares some tips for helping students to tackle GCSE maths practice papers during their revision. Sitting practice GCSE papers under timed conditions is a great way for students to revise. But how can teachers make sure that they, and their students, get the most out of this exercise? In the first of […]

GCSE revision: a guide to what works best

The man behind the extensive research tells you what works, what does not and what to avoid completely. “Students do a whole lot of things to prepare for their exams, some of which are good uses of their time and some of which are not,” explains Professor John Dunlosky of the department of psychological sciences at Kent […]

GCSE English: Quick tips from an exams expert

How to make sure pupils manage their time properly during the GCSE exam. Even the most carefully prepared pupil can sit in front of an exam paper and become disorientated. Despite all our best efforts, this can severely affect the grade the pupil achieves. So it’s worth giving pupils explicit guidance about how they should navigate […]

GSCE: Are you getting revision all wrong?

Some of the most common revision tasks that teachers set don’t help students perform in exams, says Mark Enser. Much of teaching feels very intuitive; passing on what has been learned from one generation to the next is human nature. Sometimes, however, our intuition is wrong and it leads us to pass on poor advice to […]