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i was just wondering what is the best primary source of content revision- cognito or free science lessons?

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by ku2006
i was just wondering what is the best primary source of content revision- cognito or free science lessons?


i recommend using both. But for Cognito i mainly used there website thing that tests you while i would use free science lesson. I went from a 5-4 to a 8-7 so both are extremely useful. If you going to make notes or would also recommend making them now. Since closer to the exams you can just re read you notes or just re watch the vids. Free science lesson is very good so i do recommend.

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by ku2006
i was just wondering what is the best primary source of content revision- cognito or free science lessons?

Heya!
If it helps, Study Mind also offers free resources for GCSE sciences from past papers to revision notes all done by topic :h: There is also a YT channel if you are looking for some free videos to check out!

I hope this helps!
Milena G.
UCL PFE
Study Mind

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by StudyMind
Heya!
If it helps, Study Mind also offers free resources for GCSE sciences from past papers to revision notes all done by topic :h: There is also a YT channel if you are looking for some free videos to check out!

I hope this helps!
Milena G.
UCL PFE
Study Mind


thank you so so much! where can i find the notes and resources?

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seneca

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by ku2006
thank you so so much! where can i find the notes and resources?

Heya!
You can find free past papers -> https://studymind.co.uk/resources/
and free revision notes ->https://studymind.co.uk/revision-notes/

I hope this helps!
Milena G.
UCL PFE
Study Mind

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by Faisal101
seneca


will just using seneca be sufficient?

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by StudyMind
Heya!
You can find free past papers -> https://studymind.co.uk/resources/



and free revision notes ->https://studymind.co.uk/revision-notes/

I hope this helps!
Milena G.
UCL PFE
Study Mind


thank you very very much! the notes are very useful and so are the past papers thank you :smile:

Reply 8

I found Cognito helpful with their practice questions and videos for bits I didn't understand.
I also found Seneca really helpful. I bought the premium so I could see my wrong answers and what they think I should study, but as long as you can keep track of what you need to revise and when, you don't.

Reply 9

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by ku2006
i was just wondering what is the best primary source of content revision- cognito or free science lessons?


the free science lessons dude makes the vids slightly tedious but hes good. personally i prefer cognito tho they could add more details

Reply 10

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by ku2006
will just using seneca be sufficient?

Yeah. Just make sure you sweat out past questions as well and mark them properly noting down what you didn’t know, so you can review it using whatever resource like free science lessons or save my exams

Reply 11

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by Faisal101
Yeah. Just make sure you sweat out past questions as well and mark them properly noting down what you didn’t know, so you can review it using whatever resource like free science lessons or save my exams

There’s also Physics and maths tutor ,that many past paper questions and notes.

Reply 12

Hey, I am in the same boat, I'm not sure what revision resource is good, i have mocks this month. I also want to do stem subjects for a levels and maybe one humanities. What a levels do you want to do?

Reply 13

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by ku2006
i was just wondering what is the best primary source of content revision- cognito or free science lessons


Personally, I like free science lessons more. But, here's my reasoning:
Cognito is brilliant if you need to relearn stuff, with really informative videos that are really helpful.
Freescience lessons, however, is really designed for revision. The videos are much smaller and compacted, so have less info, but that means they're best for quick revision before exams and such, or when you've not got much time.
Free science lessons are designed specifically for the AQA exam board. Cognito is not, and while it still applies they do use some different terminology and have excess unnecessary information, so less useful for revision for AQA and such.


That's personally my thoughts - Cognito is brilliant, if you have the time and are okay learning some unnecessary stuff if you're on certain exam boards. Free science lessons is best for general, quick revision before exams, and is better for AQA. So FSL for conciseness, Cognito for information. If I had to pick one, FSL because it's better for my personal exam board haha, and its just easier to revise for exams especially. Hope that helps, obviously just my thoughts :smile:

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by {Moss}
Personally, I like free science lessons more. But, here's my reasoning:
Cognito is brilliant if you need to relearn stuff, with really informative videos that are really helpful.
Freescience lessons, however, is really designed for revision. The videos are much smaller and compacted, so have less info, but that means they're best for quick revision before exams and such, or when you've not got much time.
Free science lessons are designed specifically for the AQA exam board. Cognito is not, and while it still applies they do use some different terminology and have excess unnecessary information, so less useful for revision for AQA and such.


That's personally my thoughts - Cognito is brilliant, if you have the time and are okay learning some unnecessary stuff if you're on certain exam boards. Free science lessons is best for general, quick revision before exams, and is better for AQA. So FSL for conciseness, Cognito for information. If I had to pick one, FSL because it's better for my personal exam board haha, and its just easier to revise for exams especially. Hope that helps, obviously just my thoughts :smile:

thank you so much :smile: i do edexcel and content wise i believe that the content in aqa and edexcel is mostly the same so can i still use free science lessons even though i do edexcel?

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by hari_tha
Hey, I am in the same boat, I'm not sure what revision resource is good, i have mocks this month. I also want to do stem subjects for a levels and maybe one humanities. What a levels do you want to do?

sameeee i’m so stuck on what revision method is best for me for science. i wanna do economics, history, maths and bio but i’m contemplating whether to do pyschology instead of biology because i want to do law in the future so i’m not sure which one is better. what about you?

Reply 16

Wait is this for a levels or gcse

Reply 17

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by ku2006
thank you so much :smile: i do edexcel and content wise i believe that the content in aqa and edexcel is mostly the same so can i still use free science lessons even though i do edexcel?


That's great, yep I'd say so, I'd recommend checking the spec beforehand though, which you can do by going onto the Edexcel website and searching for the subject. The specification (in case you've not seen it) tells you about the topics, and if they line up with FSL that should work fine. Sciences should be good for similarities apart from a few things that might be different, for most of your topics FSL should be fine :biggrin:. Hopefully that solved your question, good luck!

Reply 18

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by Faisal101
Wait is this for a levels or gcse


gcse

Reply 19

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by {Moss}
That's great, yep I'd say so, I'd recommend checking the spec beforehand though, which you can do by going onto the Edexcel website and searching for the subject. The specification (in case you've not seen it) tells you about the topics, and if they line up with FSL that should work fine. Sciences should be good for similarities apart from a few things that might be different, for most of your topics FSL should be fine :biggrin:. Hopefully that solved your question, good luck!

thank you so so much for all the advice :smile:

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