Higher Gcse Revision

Revision lessons tin live on hard to learn right. It's much easier to engage students when you're introducing novel material. Every twelvemonth I effort to deliver revision lessons that actually add together value, merely it tin live on hard to honour inspiring resources.

This postal service features a alternative of effective as well as engaging GCSE revision resources suitable for students working at grades A/A*. I'd live on interested to come across your recommendations too.

Picture Relay

My favourite action for a GCSE maths revision lesson is this pic relay from alipon on TES.

I've delivered this lesson a few times as well as it's e'er gone actually well. Each twain of students is given a pic as well as xx questions. They cause got to convey me a right reply to motion on to the adjacent question. The get-go few questions are fairly piece of cake hence it's fast-paced, merely it speedily slows downwardly every bit the challenge increases. And that's what I dearest well-nigh this resources - the flat of challenge is spot on for students working at degree A/A*. There's enough to learn them thinking as well as the action takes a practiced forty minutes. Afterwards at that topographic point are a release of give-and-take points (eg questions where students took dissimilar approaches), hence it nicely fills a i hr lesson. My students actually bask it.

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Revision Races as well as Treasure Hunts
The writers of Higher Tier Prompts - students are given a pic as well as cause got to come upward up amongst a suitable assay query to become amongst it.

Revision Cards
Last twelvemonth I did a circle theorems revision lesson inwards which students tested each other using these cards. Teachit Maths cause got cards for a gain of topics here.

I've made my ain A* revision cards that students tin purpose to assay each other. And for a to a greater extent than comprehensive selection, cheque out these bright this post about how to organise revision races from @Jeremy_Denton.

Higher Starter Questions
I constitute these Higher Tier: 25 Starter Questions which I used for a relay action concluding year. Some of these questions are pretty challenging hence I organised this i differently to my park relays. I position piles of questions on a long tabular array at the front end of the room. I position an Excel spreadsheet upward on the board - students names downwardly the side (in pairs), query numbers at the top. They had to come upward to the front end as well as select a question. Once they'd solved it, they brought it to me as well as if they were right I gave them a indicate inwards the appropriate jail cellphone on the spreadsheet. Students could come across the spreadsheet updating throughout the lesson hence they knew who was inwards the Pb as well as they could also come across which questions their peers had answered correctly (which helped them create upward one's hear which query to pick next). It worked really well.

Another prissy resources is this gear upward of Higher Tier Prompts - students are given a pic as well as cause got to come upward up amongst a suitable assay query to become amongst it.

Revision Cards
Last twelvemonth I did a circle theorems revision lesson inwards which students tested each other using these cards. Teachit Maths cause got cards for a gain of topics here.

I've made my ain A* revision cards that students tin purpose to assay each other. And for a to a greater extent than comprehensive selection, cheque out these bright flashcards from @tannermaths. The Mathematical Association sells these GCSE revision cards.

Of course of written report there's also a lot of value inwards students creating their ain revision cards. You could brand each pupil a specialist for a item theme - they pass one-half a lesson making quiz cards for their allocated topic, as well as then inwards the 2nd one-half of the lesson students rotate around the room speed-dating style, quizzing each other.

Tailored Practice Papers
Aside from by GCSE papers (most of which my students create at habitation rather than inwards class), at that topographic point are iii other categories of practise paper:

1. Targeting a grade. A* practice papers similar Higher Tier Prompts - students are given a pic as well as cause got to come upward up amongst a suitable assay query to become amongst it.

Revision Cards
Last twelvemonth I did a circle theorems revision lesson inwards which students tested each other using these cards. Teachit Maths cause got cards for a gain of topics here.

I've made my ain A* revision cards that students tin purpose to assay each other. And for a to a greater extent than comprehensive selection, cheque out these bright Maths Genie and Bland.in.

3. Practising a skill. It's useful for students to practise a technique for 'Quality of Written Communication' questions. I specially similar this gear upward of Higher Tier Prompts - students are given a pic as well as cause got to come upward up amongst a suitable assay query to become amongst it.

Revision Cards
Last twelvemonth I did a circle theorems revision lesson inwards which students tested each other using these cards. Teachit Maths cause got cards for a gain of topics here.

I've made my ain A* revision cards that students tin purpose to assay each other. And for a to a greater extent than comprehensive selection, cheque out these bright tannermaths.co.uk.

Revision Resources
There are thousands of maths GCSE revision resources available online hence I can't listing them all, merely here's a few that yous powerfulness honour helpful.

• Did yous know that Don Steward has a blog specifically for revision as well as practise resources? Here's an illustration of his A/A* revision questions.

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• MathsBox has an fantabulous 'Big Mistake' action as well as 2 Higher GCSE Revision Treasure Hunts: here and here. These GCSE Revision Trail Cards from parabola on TES await practiced too.
• I similar this 'One Question Per Topic' checklist from andrewshorty on TES. 
• There's loads of fantastic resources as well as ideas on MathedUp!. I dearest the 5 Minute Mock Paper analysis which is so much meliorate than the irksome mock analysis canvass I currently use. It's worth reading the recent posts on MathedUp! well-nigh GCSE revision. Check out the fantabulous resources including GCSE Revision Mats and Essential Skills Worksheets. 

  

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