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Best maths site for GCSE resit

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Hathall · 26/03/2025 08:11

Ds has decided to resit his maths in November. He got a 5 in his gcse last year but needs a 6 for his chosen university course.
He’ll be studying mostly independently and I’m happy to pay for a good maths site subscription. One that he can just get on with himself.
There are quite a few to choose from and I’m not sure which one to go for.
Does anyone have any that they could recommend?

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crumpet · 26/03/2025 08:32

Seneca is a free resource - not so good on overall scope of the curriculum, but good on the individual questions if that makes sense, and is divided into exam boards.

A decent revision book for the gcse board in question

look up YouTube tutorials - some are very good

but the biggest thing for us was exam technique, and printing out loads of past papers AND their marking papers.

It really helped Ds understand how marks were allocated (eg a 4 mark question wouldn’t achieve 4 marks for just the right answer (one mark only): you’d get one mark for stating Pythagoras, one mark for stating the theorem, one mark for substituting numbers into the theorem, one mark for the right answer- so you could get 3 marks even if the final answer was wrong ). The past papers also give a good feel for how the paper is made up, of the 8 mark, one mark etc questions.

This allows them to develop a bit of a strategy - moving quickly past the “too difficult” questions, marching through those they can do, then going back and “mark scraping” even partial answers to the tricky ones.

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crumpet · 26/03/2025 08:35

Also getting the stats for previous years as to the grade boundaries, and what marks he should be aiming for for the relevant boundary. Again it really helps them to visualise what they are aiming for, and helped Ds get beyond the “but I got the answer right, why didn’t I get full marks for the question”, and helped him see that the extra 3 marks might have helped to make a grade difference

TwinklyOrca · 26/03/2025 08:40

Hathall · 26/03/2025 08:11

Ds has decided to resit his maths in November. He got a 5 in his gcse last year but needs a 6 for his chosen university course.
He’ll be studying mostly independently and I’m happy to pay for a good maths site subscription. One that he can just get on with himself.
There are quite a few to choose from and I’m not sure which one to go for.
Does anyone have any that they could recommend?

The GCSE maths tutor - I went from a D at leaving school to a grade 8 by self studying using his online resources.

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