Help with differences in exam boards.

[EnglishRose1320]

Hi, my ds has had to move schools and will hopefully get a place in a school for the start of Year 10. I don't want him to fall behind whilst he has no school placement and wanted to buy him some books to work through but without knowing what school he's going to I don't know which exam boards the schools use.
How much difference is there? If I say got an AQA computer science book and the school he ends up going to uses OCR will some of what he's learnt be irrelevant. I'm guessing there is a level or crossover, just wondered how much?

Obviously can't look in a book shop atm to compare how similar the books are.

For most subjects the content is incredibly similar.
Exceptions are:
History and geography depend on modules tge school studies
English depends on the books studied

Thank you that's really helpful, am looking at science and computer science at the moment so I'll go ahead and order some books.

English and Maths he has online accounts for learning so he should be okay for those. Didn't even think about texts in English, maybe I'll just keep focusing on language and general skills for the minute and wait until I know which school before doing more.

He seems to be leaning towards History over Geography but I think I'll just let him explore both and again wait and see where he ends up.

Thanks

Like a PP said it should be fairly similar except for subjects where there's a choice of completely different modules e.g. History (if the school studies history of medicine then obviously the origins of WW1 won't be relevant).

I would say in general he's better off making sure he's very solid on the ground work rather than ploughing too far ahead with the new syllabus which will be covered next year anyway but anything to keep the brain going will help!

Yes you can't go wrong with science in general, massive overlap I am sure, also English Lang and maths, also MFL!

Issues are mainly with texts studied in Eng lit and yy topics in history. Moving mid Ks4 is more if an issue (ie at end of yr 10, not as you are doing) because topics may be covered in different order.