GCSE Revision Tips

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GCSE Revision Tips
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GCSE Revision Tips
Business Studies

• Ensure you know
• Key terms
• The advantages and disadvantages of all topics
• The ratios for finance
• Marketing different strategies for price,
  place, promotion and product and the advantages
  and disadvantages of each

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GCSE Revision Tips
English / English Literature

• Remember to TAP the question in the writing
  sections

• Audience who am I writing for?
• Purpose why am I writing this?
• Task what form do I have to write in?

• Remember to identify the PALS in the media texts

• Purpose
• Audience
• Layout
• Style

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GCSE Revision Tips
English / English Literature

• Remember to FLIRT with the poetry

• Form
• Language
• Imagery
• Rhyme and Rhythm
• Tone

• Remember to PEE in the structuring of your
  essays

• Make a Point
• Provide some Evidence
• Then Explain how and why your point is relevant
  to the essay title

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GCSE Revision Tips
Food Technology

• Ensure you
• Know the technical terms
• Know the industrial equipment as opposed to
  school based equipment
• Know all processing techniques
• Know about appropriate methods of cooking and
  heat transference
• Know the properties of ingredients thicken,
  set, aerate etc

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GCSE Revision Tips
Geography

• Speak to staff and get mock/practice exam
  questions. Practise under timed conditions.
• Produce country mind maps that revise the topics
  covered.
• Practice producing annotated sketch maps of
  countries.
• Produce essay plans for case study questions.
• Organise folders to make revision easier!

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GCSE Revision Tips
Maths

• There is always a units question.
• Show workings out on the calculator paper.
• Make sure you know how to re-arrange equations,
  substitute equations and solve equations.
• Higher Level Know when to use Sine, Cosine,
  Tan, Pythagoras or SohCahToa in triangle
  questions.
• Foundation Level Know about angles with
  parallel lines and remember the key words
  alternate and corresponding.

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GCSE Revision Tips
Modern Foreign Languages

• Students should
• Establish what the question is looking for (who?/
  why?/what?/a number?/noun?/adjective?).
• Create mind maps of each topic area, use colours
  and pictures.
• Be logical with guesses! use subject matter to
  work it out if unsure.
• Make sure you understand (and follow!) the
  instructions for answering each question.
• Use pod-casts to help revise for the speaking
  exam.

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GCSE Revision Tips
Music

• You should be able to listen to any piece of
  music and identify fairly accurately the
  instruments being used.
• You should be able to describe the structure of
  it (in terms of verse, chorus etc but also in
  terms of A, B, A etc).
• You should be able to identify what tonality is
  being used (major, minor, pentatonic, atonal).
• You should be able to describe the texture of
  music using terms with phonic as the suffix
  (homophonic, polyphonic etc).

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General GCSE Revision Tips

• The best way to show that you know something is
  to explain it to someone else.
• GCSE timetables should be displayed in the
  kitchen where you and your family can keep track
  and discuss progress.
• Make sure you drink plenty of water.
• Exercise, even if its just a stroll outside.
• Splash out on things to make revision active and
  fun.

Good Luck!