KS4 Effective Revision

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The following are ineffective and if you are doing this please stop NOW!

• • • • • Copying notes from a text book or revision guide.

        • Highlighting your book or any worksheet.

        • Reading through your notes.

Try some of these instead...

Complete the GCSEPod home learning modules. Test yourself the following day to see how much you can remember. You can watch additional GCSEPods on any of the topics you have learnt.

Recall Questions on Quizlet Links can be found on your year group page.

If you are watching online videos or reading a revision guide challenge yourself to do one of the following.

• • • Summarise in less than 30 words (or less if you can)

    • Write 5 bullet points, each bullet point has to be less than 10 words.

    • Do a poster with only pictures to represent what you have read/watched.

    • Turn the information into a table (for example, pros and cons of a particular issue).

    • Make a time line of the events that lead to a scientific discovery

Required Practicals (15% of your GCSE) use the resources on your year group page.

Sign onto and USE senecalearning.com (a website that uses cognitive science to help you learn faster and more effectively.) Join up with the links on following pages Trilogy and Separate Sciences

Brain dumping. Take a blank piece of paper and write down everything you can remember about a topic. Check what you have written using BBC Bitesize 

Finally when you are ready you can do some past paper questions

• • • There are questions for each topic on your year group page.

    • There are end of chapter questions in the text book.

    • Find AQA Trilogy specimen and past papers here.  Biology, chemistry and physics past papers are linked under their name.

    • Oxford revise practice papers are on the same pages as the past AQA papers for triple science only.

    • Previous scheme AQA papers on physicsandmathstutor.com .