How to revise for GCSE Maths, aiming for grades 7-9

I'm Sahal, a part-time Maths and English tutor at a local tuition centre in London. If you are in Year 10 or 11, here are my best tips for making the most out of revising for Maths!

Active Recall

The best way to learn or revise content is through active recall. Most students revise by re-writing notes, highlighting or reading off a textbook. This is not effective because you are passively working, and it's not incentivising you to remember content.

Active Recall forces you to remember and understand key facts and knowledge in maths, because the ways you revise through this make it possible. Here are some good revision techniques for active recall.

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Exam Practice

Learning content is absolutely important for acing your exams. But if you don't know how to answer exam questions effectively, then there is no point. It's important that after learning content, you practice your knowledge by completing past papers or exam questions. And always mark your work honestly with the mark schemes, as it can tell you what your strengths and weaknesses, so you can focus more on your weaknesses.

Some of my favourite websites for this are Corbett Maths, Physics and Maths Tutor and Maths Genie. Alongside past papers, they have a wide range of practice questions, organised by topic and grade so you can work towards a specific target grade e.g. a Grade 5 or a Grade 7.

If you're less than half a year away from exams, using past papers to the ABSOLUTE BRIM is crucial as it's now important to improve your exam technique and get used to the type of questions that your exam board will give you.

Mind Maps

If you're revising a topic that requires a lot of formulas or facts to memorise, such as Circle Theorems, mind maps can be very useful.

Create a cloud with the topic, and create lines and branches to multiple facts and ideas of the topic that you know. E.g. for circle theroems, you can define the parts of a circle, and the theorems you have to remember.

Mind maps can be useful to review past topics, and making them can help you recall knowledge, and any missing knowledge you forget can be something you can improve on for the future.

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Time Management and Revision Scheduling

It's important that you are consistently revising GCSE Maths. If you have a schedule that you stick to, then there is great hope for you to make the most out of the subject.

When it comes to revising GCSEs, you should spend at least an hour and a half at home revising. You should dedicate an hour on a few days of the week to revising Mathematics. Some days can be just revising content and others is exam practice, but as you get closer to exams, make exam practice a higher priority.

If you ever fall out of schedule, do not give up! Continue back to following it because that will always be a better decision than quitting when you still have time to make the most out of Maths.

Thanks for reading this quick blog on making the most out of GCSE Maths.