GCSE revision books for lower grades

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Hi.. Ridiculous question on the face of it.

Does anyone please know of any GSCE revision / support guides that don’t include ALL the curriculum or that specify when a subtopic is for the higher grades? Or does the exam board differentiate this any where?

The ones we have are overwhelming. We have time and are trying to embed ks3 before going on to the full gcse curriculum (science). For various reasons there is no other way to do this.

Please help but the solution needs to be book based.

thank you

Why not buy the KS3 CGP guide if you are looking to reinforce foundations?

Also CGP do foundation science guides for double /combined science.

Are you home schooling?

For maths you can get foundation ones.

there are also a series published which are called aiming for grade 3/5/7/9 which are more focused.

if you are looking at much lower grades the Corbett 5 a day is your best bet.

https://corbettmaths.com/5-a-day/gcse/

CGP do a KS3 foundation level science revision guide and workbook.

They also do foundation level revision guides and workbooks for GCSE combined science for almost every specification.

Exam boards should specify in the specification which points are higher only. Which exam board are you aiming for?

The ‘my revision notes’ series focus on basic facts/skills in history. They are more accessible definitely. But remember they all sit the same paper so you also need to focus on the skills - which questions can you pick up marks easily with, learn the answer structures to give formulaic but correct answers.

Thanks everyone. This is really helpful. Yes we are hoping to embed ks3 first.

We are flexischooling but info provided by school is impenetrable for various reasons.

This will be very useful while we are trying to catch up. Also the books for history will be useful. There are folders upon folders of resources from school and we just need to target energy towards the essential first.

samloves this is a very useful way to approach things. Thanks for highlighting this.

info provided by school is impenetrable for various reasons.

well this is a little concerning

Yes @smittenappleit is.
Unfortunately just one of multiple examples of school not supporting Sen kids at all.

Not even ‘not properly’. Just not at all. We are living this for the third child now. I am determined that this time we will triumph in spite of the school. No amount of complaints or rights or procedures will turn it around in enough time. Though we will still do this if only to be annoying. 🙂

So all three children have been flexi home schooled?

You must make sure that whatever you are teaching at home is running parallel to what’s being taught at school.

So if you are finding it impenetrable, you need to arrange a meeting with the school to really get clarity.

It doesn’t need to be high drama. Just focussed on the curriculum and topics to ensure the best education for your child

Do you have access to the exam board websites? They have mark schemes you could break down and model answers at different levels which would also really help you…can you ask school for these if you don’t have them?

Maths and Science are easy as you get Foundation tier guides.

I found History & Geography impossible to understand what was key info and what wasn't. RE was more straightforward. English Lit you can just be more superficial.