For my daughter’s IGCSE Science subjects she kept asking for Summary Books – what she meant was something that had the same content as her student books but in a more condensed manner, leaving out extra detail and focusing on the key points. Something that she could read after she had finished a section in her student book. And because I had bought her the CGP Edexcel International GCSE Biology Revision book (and she liked it) I just decided to stick with what was working and got her the CGP Edexcel International GCSE Physics Revision Guide.

Now it really is not as detailed as her student book. They sell it as a Revision Guide so it is a summarized version of the student books. But it does contain all the topics that they need to cover.

Okay I find some of these pages a bit crammed but surprisingly my daughter does not (and in the past this has been an issue with other books that we used). But she does only read 1 or 2 pages at a time and for her this is a reminder of what she has already learnt (in other words this is not her main source of knowledge). We do both like the use of colour to highlight facts and we also like that they write the information in blocks or sections, so you can sometime even just focus on half a page or a block at a time if you need too.

I will say what we both really think that this is a great set of notes. It is quicker to read and refer to than the typical student books so when it comes to just checking a formula or a fact this is often easier to use and quicker to refer back to.

And it includes a chapter at the end Describing Experiments which has some really useful pages on experiments and using graphs and ratios (very useful chapter).

I don’t think this takes the place of the student book (because you need to read the detail) but it terms of a set of Revision Notes or Summary Notes to refer to we think it ticks all the boxes.

For those of you who want Amazon links this is the book mentioned above – CGP Edexcel International GCSE Physics Revision Guide.

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