Revision Tips For Gcse Maths

Find a good Revision Guide and Workbook, I like Success from Letts, for your specific exam board and tier.

Remember, practice makes perfect! Therefore you have to work through the workbook and check your answers.

Ask your tutor or teacher for help with the topics you struggle with. If you don't have someone to ask, you could try searching the internet for help (BBC Bitesize website) or go back to the Revision Guide.

Start using the workbook early on in the year and in the last month before the exam, work through past papers and sample papers for your specific exam board. If you are doing the higher tier, make sure that you can do the foundation tier papers, in this way you know you can do all the questions upto C-grade.

If you have time, work through other exam board's past papers and sample papers, this will offer very valuable practice and will prepare you for all possible questions.

Try to do all calculatiosn first without a calculator and then use your calculator for checking. This will help you being fully prepared for both the calculator and non-calculator papers. On the day of the exam, make sure you have the correct equipment and that you know how to use your calculator, protractor and compass confidently.

All the best for your exam and remember, practice makes perfect!