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gcse aqa spanish help! (higher tier)

hi
so ive never revised for spanish and now im in yr 11 and i dont know how to revise for a language. im great at the sciences becasue the revision process is straightforward (for each topic learn the content, practice, exam ques) but for spanish i just dont know how to structure everything into my revision since theres vocab, grammar 100 different tenses and different papers for reading listening writing and what not. im a bit confused

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I did GCSE Spanish this last year and got an 8, here’s a breakdown of how I revised:

I used StudySmarter to learn all my vocabulary- it’s really good because it uses spaced repetition. This means that when you’re using the digital flashcards on there you can learn however many in a day and then it will bring them back for you to review a few days later to check over them again. This way it’s much quicker to learn vocab than some other digital flashcard sites because you’re only going over cards you haven’t learnt yet or ones you haven’t seen in a while. It’s fine if you prefer to use another app but if you’d like to use StudySmarter i can send you my flashcard sets 🙂

For tenses, make flashcards for them (I googled pdf gcse Spanish tenses) and review these regularly.

It’s important to become familiar with the sounds of the language for listening papers. If you’ve got access to a platform like active learn then that’s invaluable. I also enjoyed listening to pop music covers translated into Spanish whilst studying. You’ll also want to do some past papers because the recordings can be a little weird and you’ll need to get used to the question types and command words.

For reading, once you know the vocab and tenses doing past papers becomes more of a way to expand your vocabulary as well as improving your knowledge of different question types and how papers can try and trick you. Before doing a paper id recommend that you go through it and use deepl translate to get the definitions for any words you dont already know. Put these into whatever flashcard app you use later. Then do the paper to practice retrieving the correct information from texts.

For writing, the only thing which i realistically did to prepare was blookets on complex structures (basically fancy grammar stuff which boosts your mark)


I hope that helps and I would be happy to try to answer any more questions if you have them on how to revise for Spanish 🙂 have a great day!
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Original post by DerDracologe
I did GCSE Spanish this last year and got an 8, here’s a breakdown of how I revised:

I used StudySmarter to learn all my vocabulary- it’s really good because it uses spaced repetition. This means that when you’re using the digital flashcards on there you can learn however many in a day and then it will bring them back for you to review a few days later to check over them again. This way it’s much quicker to learn vocab than some other digital flashcard sites because you’re only going over cards you haven’t learnt yet or ones you haven’t seen in a while. It’s fine if you prefer to use another app but if you’d like to use StudySmarter i can send you my flashcard sets 🙂

For tenses, make flashcards for them (I googled pdf gcse Spanish tenses) and review these regularly.

It’s important to become familiar with the sounds of the language for listening papers. If you’ve got access to a platform like active learn then that’s invaluable. I also enjoyed listening to pop music covers translated into Spanish whilst studying. You’ll also want to do some past papers because the recordings can be a little weird and you’ll need to get used to the question types and command words.

For reading, once you know the vocab and tenses doing past papers becomes more of a way to expand your vocabulary as well as improving your knowledge of different question types and how papers can try and trick you. Before doing a paper id recommend that you go through it and use deepl translate to get the definitions for any words you dont already know. Put these into whatever flashcard app you use later. Then do the paper to practice retrieving the correct information from texts.

For writing, the only thing which i realistically did to prepare was blookets on complex structures (basically fancy grammar stuff which boosts your mark)


I hope that helps and I would be happy to try to answer any more questions if you have them on how to revise for Spanish 🙂 have a great day!

thank you so much!! id like to try studysmarter since i havent heard of it before and i do have activelearn but have never used it 😅
Original post by amal549
thank you so much!! id like to try studysmarter since i havent heard of it before and i do have activelearn but have never used it 😅

id highly recommend using active learn- the interface can be frustrating so try a couple of browsers if its giving you any problems (I found that it worked best for me on safari!). But yeah its basically the best way i found to do exam practice questions for reading and especially listening 🙂

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