Using cgp for gcse 9-1??

Yes, but I would recommend the collins ones to you rather than CGP- I find it too "bantsy"? Like I appreciated the jokes when I was having a look through it in year 10 but now I'm in year 11 it's just a bit annoying. The collins' textbooks condense all you need to know without the jokes and it helps you cover the content quicker.

Original post by lydiarutharnold

Yes, but I would recommend the collins ones to you rather than CGP- I find it too "bantsy"? Like I appreciated the jokes when I was having a look through it in year 10 but now I'm in year 11 it's just a bit annoying. The collins' textbooks condense all you need to know without the jokes and it helps you cover the content quicker.

As you can see it talks about osmosis, diffusion and active transport in one page as well as telling you about the required practicals whereas the cgp is 3 pages. Your choice but I'd rather use the collins

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Well, I use a mixture of things.

For science:

- mygcsescience and their questions
- reading my CGP guide and memorising it
- doing questions in CGP book and then checking answer
- doing question in CGP workbook and then checking answer
- chemsheets/savemyexams (once I buy them)
- past papers from AQA, OCR, Edexcel (all 3)
- specimen papers from all 3 again

I'll do this plan for science. I recommend mixture - not just one source.

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Agree with lydiarutharnold - Collins > CGP. Used them for GCSE too, albeit I did my GCSEs in 2014.

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Original post by thekidwhogames

Well, I use a mixture of things.

For science:

- mygcsescience and their questions
- reading my CGP guide and memorising it
- doing questions in CGP book and then checking answer
- doing question in CGP workbook and then checking answer
- chemsheets/savemyexams (once I buy them)
- past papers from AQA, OCR, Edexcel (all 3)
- specimen papers from all 3 again

I'll do this plan for science. I recommend mixture - not just one source.

for savemyexams, to access the markscheme, just replace 'qp' in the link of the paper with 'ms' :smile:

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Original post by indie.sxnds

for savemyexams, to access the markscheme, just replace 'qp' in the link of the paper with 'ms' :smile:

Just tried it - it doesn't seem to work?

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Original post by thekidwhogames

Just tried it - it doesn't seem to work?

https://www.savemyexams.co.uk/uploads/5/0/8/7/50878855/1.1-atomic_structure-qp-_gcse-edexcel-chemistry_.pdf make sure you don't include the inverted commas I put, try it with this, it should work :smile:

edit: if it is a past paper, and not a topic one, replace questionpaper with markscheme, it works 100% for edexcel, I haven't tried other exam boards

(edited 6 years ago)

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Original post by lydiarutharnold

As you can see it talks about osmosis, diffusion and active transport in one page as well as telling you about the required practicals whereas the cgp is 3 pages. Your choice but I'd rather use the collins

I've heard the Collins books are great, but I think they only do AQA Science, does anyone know if they also do Edexcel?

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Original post by indie.sxnds

https://www.savemyexams.co.uk/uploads/5/0/8/7/50878855/1.1-atomic_structure-qp-_gcse-edexcel-chemistry_.pdf make sure you don't include the inverted commas I put, try it with this, it should work :smile:

edit: if it is a past paper, and not a topic one, replace questionpaper with markscheme, it works 100% for edexcel, I haven't tried other exam boards

Ah, it doesn't work for OCR but thanks anyways - will use the Edexcel ones! :smile:

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Original post by thekidwhogames

Ah, it doesn't work for OCR but thanks anyways - will use the Edexcel ones! :smile:

Sorry! I hope the edexcel ones do help though :smile:

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