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GCSE Revision Resources

Here is a general starting point for your revision. For subject specific resources, please look on the subject pages.

Don't hesitate to talk to or email your teacher if you need help or additional resources - it's what we're here for!

Homework and Exam Revision

Coundon Court Revision Guides YouTube Channel

BBC BitesizeA great website for every subject. Find everything you need for your course and exam board explained with videos and example questions.

Seneca

A fun and interactive site that takes you through every aspect of the course content.

Timetables and planning

Planning Your Revision - BBC Bitesize

BBC GCSE BITESIZE REVISION SITE

Homework Elephant - Internet resources to help complete homework assignments. Over 5000 carefully selected resources to assist with your homework problems

Project GCSE - Offers many resources for students revising for their GCSEs including: GCSE revision notes and practice questions, a GCSE bookshop, GCSE help and advice and the take a break section

Linguascope - Coundon Court has subscribed to this web site for pupils to practice their French, German, Spanish and Italian. Pupils have been supplied with a school username and password

 

Subject Specific Revision Materials

Business Studies

Read through the PDF for each area of study, make revision material and complete the activities throughout the booklets.

Business Activity

Influences on Business

Operations

Finance

Marketing

Human Resources

 

Computer Science

Specification - look through the specification - identify any knowledge gaps - email your teacher for practice questions.

Specification

Code Challenges

Computer Science GCSE Knowledge Oganiser

Suitable Test Data

Use the specification to focus on a specific topic - watch this video - make notes - answer questions

Video

Smart Revise Website

 

Design & Technology

Use this list to help know which topics to revise

Revision List

This homework booklet will be given during revision lessons. You must complete the homework tasks each week.

Homework Booklet

Seneca Learning - Your teacher will provide you with a class code so that you can work through the revision tasks and questions at your own pace.

Seneca Learning Website

 

Food Technology

Attempt the quiz and revise key Food Science facts

Food Science Quiz

Work through the revision questions on each slide and learn the key points

Revision QuestionsUse this resource to develop a secure and detailed knowledge of Nutrition

Food Provenance

 

French

Use these French Online Resources from the Department

Resource 1 – Vocabulary

This folder provides all key vocabulary across the eight GCSE topics. Spend time looking through the vocabulary and create flashcards or use the "look-cover-write" technique to memorise as many words as you can.

Resource 2 – Speaking & Writing (Foundation)

This folder provides examples, tips and exercises in preparation for the foundation tier speaking and writing components. Each document focuses on a topic that you covered in Year 10.

Resource 3 – Speaking & Writing (Higher)

This folder provides examples, tips and exercises in preparation for the higher tier speaking and writing components. Each document focuses on a topic that you covered in Year 10.

Resource 4 – Reading Workbook

This document contains a series of reading comprehension tasks and translations into English in preparation for the reading component of the GCSE assessment.

French  Online Resources

Other Online Resources

Use the activities on Seneca Learning to revise key vocabulary and grammar across a range of topics. Select Edexcel GCSE French to find resources appropriate to our specification

Seneca Learning

.Use the activities on BBC Bitesize to revise key vocabulary and grammar across a range of topics

BBC Bitesize

Complete various activities on Sentence Builders to revise key vocabulary and sentence structures across a range of topics..

Sentence Builders

 

History

Traffic light this resource: Green - Confident, Yellow - OK, Red - Weak

Core Knowledge

This booklet has a number of questions in that you can use for revision

Exam Question Booklet

 

Mathematics

This presentation explains how to maximise your maths revision. It includes a breakdown of the revision cycle and links to past papers, topic lessons and topic specific exam questions. It also demonstrates how to use your knowledge and retrieval organisers at home.

Revising for GCSE Maths

A step-by-step guide to effective maths revision

How to Revise for GCSE Maths

Students use Sparx as part of their independent learning. This presentation shows you how to select and revise specific GCSE topics.

How to Use Sparx to Revise for Your GCSE

Pinpoint is a an online diagnostic tool to help students create an individualised learning pathway to achieve their target grade. This presentation explains how to use it either in school or at home.

How to Revise Using Pinpoint

Coundon Court Maths YouTube Channel

How to Revise For GCSE - Maths Resources

 

Religious Education

Sikhism

Use this revision resource to find key information to help you prepare revision materials such as mind-maps ands flashcards for your Sikhism exam.

Sikhism

Go over these key terms for Paper 1 - Sikhism. These terms may appear in questions on the exam paper. They are also great terms to use in your answers to demonstrate your RE knowledge.

Sikhism Vocabulary

Ready-made flashcards. Cut out and have flashcards with key knowledge and sources of authority from the Gurus (Paper 1- Sikhism). Test yourself or ask someone else to check and see what you can remember

Sikh Gurus

Christianity

Use this revision resource to find key information to help you prepare revision materials such as mind-maps ands flashcards for your Christianity exam.

Christianity

Go over these key terms for Paper 2 - Christianity. These terms may appear in questions on the exam paper. They are also great terms to use in your answers to demonstrate your RE knowledge.

Christianity Vocabulary

 

Science

This PPT shows what you need to revise for each paper. It has links to videos for Required practical's, gives page references for revision guides and has links to both the specification.

There are also links to Science Student Shared folders. In each unit folder there are schemes of learning with core questions attached.

Science Revision PowerPoint

Students have been set Educake tests for each of the Units included in their GCSE.

Once these tests have been completed students can follow the instructions in this PPT to personalise their revision by setting tests themselves on the key areas they need to revise.

How to use Educake

A quick guide to using Educake


Educake PowerPoint

Students need to ensure all Educake quizzes set by the school have been completed. Students can then set their own quizzes targeted at supporting their individual needs.

Educake Website

BBC Bitesize has great revision resources, including videos / animations to aid understanding. There are also short multiple choice tests. Some students will find this a good way to review a topic, ahead of using Educake.

BBC Bitesize Website

Examination and Revision: Final Advice

 

 

Sociology

This booklet outlines what is expected from Sociology students as we approach the end of course examinations.

Three Basic Expectations of Year 11 GCSE Sociology Students

The Revision Schedule

GCSE Sociology Revision Schedule

This booklet has practice questions for questions with an item. These are the study questions so please refer to this once you have studied and revised the key studies.

GCSE Sociology Revision Booklet

Information Regarding Research Methods

Research Methods

Information about Key Studies, Extra Names, Statistics & Laws

How to Use Your Knowledge Organisers

A Guide to using Knowledge Organisers

Item Based Exam Questions Booklet

This booklet has practice short mark questions for the Education Unit.

Education Unit

This booklet has practice short mark questions for the Social Stratification Unit.

Social Stratification Unit - Exam Question Booklet

This booklet has practice questions for questions with an item. These are the study questions so please refer to this once you have studied and revised the key studies.

Social Stratification Unit - Item Question Booklet

This booklet focus on questions that centre around the key studies, including 12 markers.

Crime and Deviance

 

Spanish

Tenses material with all of the different tenses to learn to succeed at GCSE; to achieve a Grade 4, you need to learn the Preterite, Present and Future Tenses off by heart.

Tenses Material

Photo Card Material - Grades 4-6

Photocard Material - Grades 7-9

Conversation Booklet - Grades 4-6

Conversation Booklet - Grades 7-9

BBC Bitesize for Spanish

Sentence Builders Website