Has anyone used Save My Exams as a GCSE revision resource?

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My DC (yr10)needs help to revise. I’m offering but they are a stubborn young thing. I’m looking for resources that would support them.
is SME worth paying for?

In my opinion - yes, definitely! My son has been using it for the last few months to revise for his GCSEs (he's Year 11). He has found it massively helpful, and I've been really impressed too. It has really detailed revision notes, quizzes, exam style questions, digital flashcards, mark schemes... pretty much everything you could ever want. I found a voucher code as well which meant a whole year was under £40. We wish we'd discovered it earlier!

Thanks that sounds great. Which level of subscription did you go for? Im off to see if I can find a code online…!

There’s a yr11 thread where it’s been recommended a few times and because of this my DD has used it but only quite recently. She definitely thinks it’s good but I can ask her for details in the morning.

My DD used it but mainly for Science and only in the actual run up to GCSEs so not in Year 10 when she was still learning actual content and found textbooks and online you tube explanations/BBC bite size more helpful. So I cannot comment on whether it is a resource best use just before the real thing to go through past questions mainly.

My DD2 has loved it - but only ended up using it because I had subscribed her sister to it for A-Levels. I must admit I've got three of them using DD1's, but this is the second year of subscription so they have got plenty of money out of us!

Pros
Comfort of knowing you've gone through the whole spec and it's all there
Easy to find past papers and mark schemes all together
Really great to have exam style questions on each topic arranged by easy/medium /hard
One of the kids has a subject with 'smart mark', which is marking things using AI and this seems to be absolutely brilliant

Cons
Obviously you pay for it
Not every subject on every board is covered and somehave much more than others

We prefer Seneca and medley ai where the revision seems more 'active'

But depends what your child prefers to do for revision. Reading someone else's summary or cards doesn't work for my son.