The Student Room Group

GCSE Russian Materials?

I'm study russian at GCSE level and I'm predicted an A*. I love the subject and wish to carry it on, possibly to degree level. I really want to secure this grade in my GCSE's. Does anyone have any ideas on where i can obtain any study guides/revison help/websites? I don't feel confident enough to rely on just my class notes!

Thank you.
Reply 1
A*:eek: Are you serious? Is this with AQA, because when I did AQA it was literally 98% to get an A*. What do you want to improve on? If it's grammar and stuff (not really relevant at GCSE) then the Schaum's outlines tend to be great. I've got the Russian one (doing AS-level) and it helps shedloads.

For pure vocabulary and stuff like that, I would honestly just say trust your class notes. The thing with Russian is that it's not that popular at the moment, certainly not in comparison with, say, French. You could probably find a whole host of sites with French vocabulary and stuff but this isn't the case for Russian.

If you're predicted A* then it's for a reason. Just keep practising etc, get basic grammar right, nothing too advanced and if you can manage to throw in a bit of advanced stuff (conditional, subjunctive etc) then it'll look really impressive seeing as Russian grammar is immensely complex.

Don't hesitate to contact me via PM it's good to see someone doing GCSE Russian!
blue.flower
I'm study russian at GCSE level and I'm predicted an A*. I love the subject and wish to carry it on, possibly to degree level. I really want to secure this grade in my GCSE's. Does anyone have any ideas on where i can obtain any study guides/revison help/websites? I don't feel confident enough to rely on just my class notes!

Thank you.


You can probably get study guides on the internet. But it does depend on what you need help with. I did my Russian GCSE when I was in year 9 and I got an A*, so if you want any help you can PM me as well. I have lots of tips I can give you, considering that I'm now also doing French and German as well :smile:
Reply 3
Hey ur classnotes should be enough to get an A*. I didn't use any revision guides for my Russian Gcse and I got an A*, the main things I did were to learn da spellings and meaning of vocabulary frm a vocab booklet (given by teacher) and also ... I recorded the essay I used for my speaking exam on my fne n listend to it over n over again until I learnt it ... Also do lots of practise papers, often similar vocab is repeated
Reply 4
a lot of amaerican college sites have good russian information if you can get your search engine to look for us sites. also do a google search for s azov russian from scratch