There are lots of websites for IGCSE Biology and IGCSE Phsyics that you can use but I have found two that we are using every week. So I thought I would share these two websites with you.

The first one is Cognito. I actually can not remember how I discovered this site but somehow we ended up here and we are actually using it for Biology, Physics and some Maths. To use this website we did set up a free account (there is a paid for version which we have not used yet – we might at some stage). This is what it looks like if we log onto our Biology. 

Each subject is broken down into the different topics

The Topics are then broken down into mini-lessons

Once you have completed the lesson the bar underneath it will show either green (for all the questions you got correct) or red (for the questions you answered incorrectly). Oh and the kids can go back and re-watch the lessons and redo the questions if they want.

My daughter works on this site completely independently. She logs on, watches the lessons and answers the questions herself. Nothing needs to be printed and she can go at her own pace. She can skip lessons, she can jump around and she can redo any lessons that she wants.

The actual lessons are a short videos explaining the concepts and then afterwards you have to answer a few questions on the video. These lessons are not that long but we have found the explanations good and we like the quick questions at the end to check that you understand.

I want to stress this does not take the place of our student book (text book) this is an extra that we use and although she does answer the questions on this site these are NOT the only questions she answers we are also practicing with questions out of her student book and a separate workbook (I just want to make this clear).

You can do all the lessons on here or you can just choose the ones that you feel the kids need extra practice with. it really is up to you as to how you use this site.

The second website is called Physics and Maths Tutor. This was actually recommended to us by a Physics teacher and I have to admit I have since found it very useful. We are currently using it with both our Physics and Biology.  

Again this breaks each subject down into the different topics (this is the Biology).

But this site it is not a “work on the computer” site this is more of a “print it all out” site. Under each topic you get some flashcards, you get summary notes (we have found these useful) and then the main thing about this site is you get lots of questions (all of which come with answers).

The question and answer pages are what we really like about this site. They have lots of questions, the questions are varied and I really like the fact that they group the questions into the type that you can expect to fins on Paper 1 and the type you can expect to find on paper 2.

We use this mainly for the practice at answering questions. Something which I think it vital for site mainly for the fact that they have so many good examples of the types of questions that you can expect. Think of it as an extra exam-question workbook (well to be honest with the amount of questions on here it is probably the same as an extra 3 workbooks).

These two sites are very different and we use them in very different ways but we are finding them both invaluable for both of IGCSE Biology and our IGCSE Physics.