Revision Resources
If you need revision help for GCSE, AS or A2 exams, our revision tips are the best place to start. You can also learn about our revision courses for GCSE, AS and A2 exams.
However, there are lots of other useful places to get revision help online. Here are our favourites:
Exam boards and awarding bodies
Examination boards and awarding bodies can help you out with course syllabuses, exam support materials like past papers, and practical advice.
• The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA)
The largest English exam board, covering 49% of GCSEs and 42% of A levels.
• Edexcel
Edexcel awards GCSEs and offers past papers, exam timetables and learning inspiration on its website.
• Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR)
OCR awards GCSE, AS and A2 qualifications. Visit its website for past papers, qualification information and to learn how to understand your results.
• WJEC
WJEC provides examinations, assessments and educational resources to people who want to learn Welsh.
Government-run organisations
The government runs a number of different websites where you can get information, advice and revision help for your GCSE, AS and A2 exams:
• Department for Education
The Department for Education offers information on student support, details about qualifications and other information relating to government issues.
• Directgov Young People
Offers help ‘surviving school’, plus resources to help you locate qualifications and take exams.
Other learning resources
These websites aren’t run by official government, education or exam organisations, but still contain useful tools and resources that can help you revise:
• Frenchteacher.net
Created by teachers from Ripon Grammar School, this site includes lots of tests and exercise for GCSE and A level students.
Websites about your next steps
These sites can help you look beyond exams and revision help, to plan what you want to do next in your life:
• UCAS
You will already know this one if you have applied or plan to apply to university. UCAS manages university applications in the UK.
• Gapyear.com
A great place to start if you’re thinking of taking a year out to travel – it claims to be the world’s largest gap year community.
