The student book that we are using for my son’s Edexcel International GCSE Geography is this one – International GCSE (9-1) Geography for Pearson Edexcel.

The main reason why this particular book first appealed to me was because we had used the Biology version of this series with my daughter and we had found it ticked all the boxes for us so I stuck with what I knew and liked.

So first things first. This book covers everything (all topics) but with Geography you do have some choices so you will not actually work through all the sections in this book (please do make sure you understand those choices, looking at the spec and past papers will help to clear up any of the “choice” confusion).

So page layouts – this is IGCSE content so there is no getting away from the fact that there is quite a bit to read and understand, so expect longer paragraphs and more content but having said that I still do find that the pages are not too crammed.

As you can see from the pages above they do include activity ideas to go along with the learning and they also include check your understanding questions (we always do these questions). And just to clarify there are answers for these questions on the publishers website (free to download).

I like the fact that they include lots of picture and diagrams (my kids and I both like visual representations of what we are learning about).

At the end of each topic they include summaries, exam style questions and a few sample answers with comments about how to improve the answers.

This is the first time we have done Geography and we are only on our second topic, but so far this book has contained all the information that we have needed (I will write an update post once we are nearer the end of his Geography and we have gone through more of the book). We find the content easy to read and understand, we like the questions and the fact that there are answers available. We are not using this book in isolation, I honestly do not think you can only use one resource per subject for IGCSE, so we do combine a few resources together for each subject.

Do I recommend this book (Hodder International GCSE Geography student book) – Yes.

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