Nat 5 study books?

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DD is doing her Nat 5s. I’ve been looking at various study guides--has anyone used them? Which are the best?

No neither of mine had study books for Nat5s. They did a lot of past papers

Hi - my DDs used the Bright Red Publishing any 5 books (I'm sure the teachers recommended them!)

they don't have them for all subjects though

For English the Bright Red one is decent and so is the How to Pass, I also rate the Flash revise for RUAE and Scottish Text if your DC is doing one covered by the guides.

For NAT5 ds used the bright red English course book and found it very useful working through it for ruae and getting tips for his folio - recommend that one. Maths he had Teejay maths which he used once or twice to understand a couple of topics, but mostly used the revision practice resources the school had.

He had chemistry /Physics/modern studies brightred books but dont think he even opened them, he just studied class notes. I found the first couple of pages of each book interesting to see the content of the courses and exam structure, but you could probably find that on the sqa website.

The bright red book for French had links to some extra listening practice that was useful. The best thing for French was buying A7 flash cards for them to make up for revision from the vocab list the school provides, and testing them together for 10 mins every night.

He didnt need anything for PE. For PE the sqa understanding standards website which include example folios and marking tells them everything they need to know about what gets marks, just prepare for each question in the folio in advance.

You can get youngscot discounts on most of the guides, or pick them up cheap second hand.

Tell him to check out Mr Smiths Physics on youtube if he is doing physics. Or Miss Adams for chemistry.

And pop into your local charity shop if you're looking for the "how to pass" guides - we have LOADS. Past papers aren't worth buying as they are all online.

We’ve always gone with the Leckie ones. If you’re on a local FB group stick a message on there and ask if anyone has any to sell - there has been a load of them on mine the last few weeks.

As another poster said, all the past paper are online, it’s good to do lots of them.