Revision plan / strategy / resources

[PeteCt]

Hello! My daughter is Year 8 (KS3) and entering end of year exams.
She attends a mixed comprehensive school.

Has anyone got any advice re. how best to identify appropriate revision material and revise for these exams?
The kids appear to have prepared very few handwritten notes in class over the year, but perhaps I'm old fashioned.. They are given worksheets etc for homework, but these are obviously completed already and marked up.

Setting a timetable for revision is the easy bit as we can break down the time per subject, but how can I find the relevant material to study?
I've seen mentions of BBC Bitesize / CGP / Seneca /Samlearning, but these have an online focus. Does anyone know of any worksheet resources that we can download / buy??
Also importantly.. how can I be confident that the topics in anything I find are relevant to the curriculum my daughter has studied over the year?
KS3 covers up to GCSE.. age 11 - 14 and my daughter is only 12, so much of the content won't have been covered yet.

I don't want to scare my daughter by introducing topics she's not yet covered, and at the same time I want to make sure she has good revision material for the subjects/topics she IS supposed to know about.

How have others tackled this problem?! It seems like a minefield and I feel it's important to get it right for these earlier exams for when GCSEs come along.

Many thanks for any pointers.

End of year exams are usually covering topics in a set school work book and the teacher will say which parts of the textbook will be covered by the exam. DD would re-read her notes and the section in the text book and then make her own cue cards. It is good practice for the real thing and gradually gets them used to exams, revising their work etc so if it seems a bit alien now then that is natural.

I have never got involved other than to pay for revision texts at GCSE that you can find in most Waterstones (other bookshops are available!) and to quiz DD using her own cue cards and maybe the odd nudge to remind her to ask her teachers if she wasn’t certain about how to go about things. Many teachers will supply pupils with learning resources links etc.

At GCSE level you can also refer to the syllabus from the exam board and the relevant mark scheme but in Y8 they are not always doing material from GCSE but getting them prepared for it.

This is from a mum whose DD is in the midst of A levels.

At DD's school for y8 they would tell them relevant topics and if needed hand out revision notes.
e.g. For history they weren't testing the whole syllabus, they said the exact topic as they wanted to test the skills they had learned not the facts.

Hi OP, firstly, tho your dd is 12, she may have just about finished ks3 - some schools start GCSEs in Yr 9.

But I assume you would know if this applies. Even so, she only gas one year of ks3 left, so will have covered much of the content.

Ks3 revision guides are available- these would perhaps be most useful for skills based subjects like MFL, maths, Eng lang.

For history, science, eng lit, you need to find out which topics or texts have been studied. Your dd should know or school can tell her. Then she can look online for resources - practice questions will be available. I actually think bbc Bitesize is a good starting point. Do you have an issue with online resources? They are often very good.

Thanks for this. With a bit more digging it turns out there were some key revision points provided via Ms Teams by the subject tutors. A good idea to review the workbooks from over the year too.
I have met a bit of resistance from my daughter but at this stage am trying not to make this a dreadful experience! (.. Not easy when the bank holiday weather is fine like this, but that has always been the way I guess!).
It is all good prep for when the the more important ones come along.
Hope yours do well with the A-Levels. I'm sure they will be upon us too before we know it!
All the best and thanks again.

Also interesting stance re. the skills learned and not just the raw facts. It makes sense.
Re the online learning. I'm not averse to that at all and am reasonably tech savvy,.. Just the vast array of options available is mindblowing. I didn't know where to start and was wary that we could get lost in a load of material she hasn't covered / isn't expected to know about yet.
Will probably focus solely on the material provided by the school this year, with a bit of BBC Bitesize thrown in to mix it up.. Their website is really clear and well signposted.. Probably quite nice to have a bit of variety in revision and the site looks quite fun and user friendly.
Thanks everyone for all the comments and guidance. I really appreciate it.