Year 11

It is essential that when pupils are revising for maths the overwhelming majority of their time is spent actually doing maths questions. It is also essential that they check they are answering the questions correctly and that they re-do any that are wrong. Highlighting notes is not an effective revision strategy for maths and flashcards are useful only to learn key definitions (such as what a prime number is) or formulae that are not provided on the formulae sheets.

All pupils in key stage four at Brayton have a purple revision folder for maths. Pupils should be placing revision grids that they are given ahead of each assessment into their purple folders. This allows pupils to see what content they have already covered and focus their revision accordingly. These revision grids contain example questions so pupils can self-assess what topics they need to revise. Teachers will set "purple folder work" as homework at various points throughout the year, but pupils are encouraged to use them as much as possible for independent revision as well.

We recommend the websites Corbett Maths and Maths Genie as good sources of questions for revision. Both of these websites are free to use and do not require a log in.

If pupils are looking to source their own past papers to revise from, the Maths Genie website has a large number available, along with mark schemes and videos that walk through how to complete each question.

Maths teachers will always be happy to go over any additional work pupils have done with them, to resolve any questions that they may have.

The higher and foundation Sparx maths checklists already on the website should be uploaded to the y11 page. Then please can the following websites be linked:

Maths genie topic revision: https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/gcse.php

Past papers on maths genie: https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/papers.php

Corbett maths: https://corbettmaths.com/contents/