My Year 10 Revision Thread To A* 2016-2017

Hey, you're welcome

CGP tends to only be good (in my opinion) for Maths and Sciences but for Humanities (Geography, History, RS) and essay-based subjects like English, it doesn't have all the detail that is needed.

The York Notes, in particular for the AQA Poetry Anthology (Power & Conflict for us) provide the relevant background information on each of the poets' inspiration, context and then proceed to analyse each of the pieces in detail. They are also really good for the set texts, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls and A Christmas Carol.

I convinced my mum to let me buy both the CGP and York Notes because one may cover a point which the other didn't mention so generally I wanted to get both for that reason. The CGP ones were also offered at school at a discounted price than if I were to buy them from the shop so altogether it was also cheaper so hence why I could get the York Notes too. You could ask your school if they offer them before you go and buy them yourself and save a bit of money to put towards other books that they don't offer which you may want.

At the end of it though it's entirely your decision. You may like the CGP ones because of particular reason or you may like the York Notes for another reason. Make sure you have a look at both of them first in detail in the bookstore or even pictures online for the CGP ones and see whether you can imagine yourself using it and actually understand it without for example the colours being too off-putting and distracting. You could also try to look for comparison pictures so e.g. look at a page in a CGP book for a particular character and then look in the York Notes version for the same character and compare the two to see which one interests you.

I thought I'd add what else I use for my English revision if they may be of any use to you:

Websites - Pink Monkey, English Biz, Sparknotes, BBC Bitesize, Shmoop,English Tutor Home2, Oxnotes

YouTube Channels - Mr Bruff, Mr Salles, J Brierley, Mr Taylor, Mr Harvey, The English Teacher, Melanie Kendry, The GCSE Guide, Stacey Reay, English Department Shotton Hall, MrEllsworthEnglish, Sparknotes

I hope I've helped you but make sure that whatever you choose suits you, not just on the pretext of what I've been saying as it is just simply my opinion.

Wow, that's amazing, congratulations!



I had a lazy day today, didn't do much except going over my History notes and browsing the net for resources/study materials.
Tomorrow I'll probably revise for my English Lang test which is on Monday and my History test which is on Tuesday.
Oh and I forgot to say that I got an A in Psychology as we had a 'surprise' test last week

I've just finished christmas carol and I am now onto unseen poetry and power and conflict poetry. I have cgp in science, pe and french because the school got them cheaper but I'm not sure whether to get them for poetry/inspector calls/macbeth beause the language is jokey which is nice but I'm not great at using it in questions as I have to write it in a more formal way, if u know what I mean. Sorry I'm just so confused

I’m in Y9 but oh well I’m doing my GCSEs so I’m gonna introduce myself anyway
I’m taking:
Maths
English Lang&Lit
French
Spanish
History
Computer Science
Triple Science
RS

Hey, you're welcome

CGP tends to only be good (in my opinion) for Maths and Sciences but for Humanities (Geography, History, RS) and essay-based subjects like English, it doesn't have all the detail that is needed.

The York Notes, in particular for the AQA Poetry Anthology (Power & Conflict for us) provide the relevant background information on each of the poets' inspiration, context and then proceed to analyse each of the pieces in detail. They are also really good for the set texts, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls and A Christmas Carol.

I convinced my mum to let me buy both the CGP and York Notes because one may cover a point which the other didn't mention so generally I wanted to get both for that reason. The CGP ones were also offered at school at a discounted price than if I were to buy them from the shop so altogether it was also cheaper so hence why I could get the York Notes too. You could ask your school if they offer them before you go and buy them yourself and save a bit of money to put towards other books that they don't offer which you may want.

At the end of it though it's entirely your decision. You may like the CGP ones because of particular reason or you may like the York Notes for another reason. Make sure you have a look at both of them first in detail in the bookstore or even pictures online for the CGP ones and see whether you can imagine yourself using it and actually understand it without for example the colours being too off-putting and distracting. You could also try to look for comparison pictures so e.g. look at a page in a CGP book for a particular character and then look in the York Notes version for the same character and compare the two to see which one interests you.

I thought I'd add what else I use for my English revision if they may be of any use to you:

Websites - Pink Monkey, English Biz, Sparknotes, BBC Bitesize, Shmoop,English Tutor Home2, Oxnotes

YouTube Channels - Mr Bruff, Mr Salles, J Brierley, Mr Taylor, Mr Harvey, The English Teacher, Melanie Kendry, The GCSE Guide, Stacey Reay, English Department Shotton Hall, MrEllsworthEnglish, Sparknotes

I hope I've helped you but make sure that whatever you choose suits you, not just on the pretext of what I've been saying as it is just simply my opinion.

You are in Year 9 ? and anyway nice to meet you have you started this subjects?

yeah, my school starts them a year early

Ohh congrats what was the English on ?

ohh cool are you doing triple science?

what is Pink Monkey website used for?

Paper 1

Pink Monkey has book notes, study guides and chapter summaries.

It also has the following for each books:
• Setting, • Character List • Conflict, • Short Plot/Scene Summary (Synopsis), • Themes, • Mood, • Background Information - Biography

yeah, all of my gcses are new spec as well

what are you doing in the 3 different science subjects?

like language or literature

so basically English literature

bio - doing a test in cell structure and osmosis etc. tomorrow
chem - just did a test in atomic structure/halogens, group 1 metals/periodic table
phys - finished waves, doing acceleration

hbu

Oh sorry, language

Kinda yeah

biology aebrobic repsiration
Chemistry electrolysis
Physics current
Have you done tests last term