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GCSE maths: How to make the most of practice papers

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

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

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?

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 […]