I am sure a lot of you have already discovered this great website but for those of you who may not know about it this is a website which we used A LOT for our IGCSE Biology revision and we are currently using it for our IGCSE Physics revision – the Physics and Maths Tutor website.

Now this website is quite massive and I have NOT gone through all of it. I have only used it for what we have needed and I am only going to talk about the way we have used it, so this is really just going to cover a small section of what is on the website. (So far I have only really looked at the IGCSE Biology, IGCSE Physics and IGCSE Chemistry content)

I first discovered this when I was looking for Biology IGCSE (Edexcel) revision resources. The content is broken down into the different Biology topics

under each topic it is then further split between Paper 1 and Paper 2 questions.

As you can see for each set of questions and you also get a Mark Scheme (answers). The way we used it for Biology and are now using it exactly the same for Physics is really quite simple but very effective. I would go onto the site and downloaded the questions and answers per topic then as we revised each topic my daughter would work through all of the questions (I printed them out) and she would mark them herself using the Mark Scheme. (The photos below shows you how they set our the answers for each question – photo 1 is a typical forces question and then photo 2 is the attached Mark Scheme for the question). This was very important for us. My daughter found with her Biology that the more she practiced the questions and marked them herself the more she understood what the examiners were after, which key words were important and also how to structure certain types of questions.

The number of questions included in one Question Paper varies and can be anything for 2 pages to 16 pages of questions. And honestly they have included a lot of questions here. And we worked through all of them for her Biology and I am sure we will work through all of the Physics as well. (the photos below are just a few examples of the different forces questions).

Okay why do I like these question paper sets so much?

Well it is a chance for her to practice answering questions, which is important. But for us, by working through these question sets we were able to highlight which sections we needed to revise again and which type of questions we need to practice answering (so it helped us to focus our revision).

We found at the beginning of our revision that practicing a group of questions per topic was more effective than blindly going through entire past papers. We got to the past papers later on. But at the beginning of our revision it was more effective to take a topic and really do a bunch of questions, figure out what we needed to focus on, fix that and then move onto the next topic. Once we had done this for all the topics we then started practicing entire past papers, and at that stage she was confident and it was really a matter of practicing the paper within the time.

The site itself is very easy to navigate around (which is always a bit plus for me) and I like the way it is set out. The fact that they have grouped the questions together and split them between paper 1 and paper 2 questions, is exactly what you need.

The site does also have a lot of past papers on it. Now I must admit by the time I discovered this site and I had already downloaded all the past papers that I could off the exam board site but there were a few extra past papers that I found here, and the more past papers who have the better.

I found this a very useful site and I am sure any of you doing any of the IGCSE Science subjects will also find it useful.