Retakes are mainly taken by students who failed to get the important C grade, (or sometimes if they didn't achieve grade A).

The main problems with retaking GCSE Maths are:

- Students often have fewer (or no) Maths lessons when retaking

- They tend to do less work than before (!)

- They are either over confident or too negative

- Students are very rusty - they're not expecting to retake, so haven't done Maths for a few months

- Choosing whether to retake in November or in June ?

- They have all their other subjects' work to do as well

- Students quite often GET THE SAME GRADE again !

- Whatever caused the problem before needs to be changed before taking the exam again

USE REVISION CARDS TO REVISE THE MOST IMPORTANT EXAM TOPICS - FAST !!

Students need to see how close they were from the grade they needed (their teacher will have access to the exam board marks).

If they were very close then a November retake makes a lot of sense in order to try and get it done and out of the way before their next set of exams in the summer.

If they weren't that close then it would probably make sense to wait and have another go in June - but if the student is not going to have scheduled lessons or work with a teacher or tutor then there is a strong argument for retaking in November.

The advantages of using Revision Cards for Retaking GCSE Maths:

- Gives you information about what exam topics you MUST cover

- Provides a Fast Revision Method

- A manageable quantity of revision - it IS possible to cover all the main topics

- Seeing the most common exam mistakes made (so you can avoid making them too !)

- You can target the grade you need

At Revision Cards, our unique approach means that we have a lot of experience and expertise on GCSE Maths Revision – we have gained this from our detailed work on analysing revision approaches and revision methods - we are GCSE Maths Revision Experts !

By using Revision Cards, students can quickly improve their performance even though they may not have a lot time to revise.

The Revision Cards design means that work can be revised very quickly indeed.

Since we have analysed the exam papers, students know everything they work on are the most important exam topics.

Our advice is to: retake in November AND be prepared to do more work than last time !

Because candidates will be rusty from not doing maths for a few months, it is important that all the main exam topics are covered several times before the exam.

Some topics which previously the student may have found difficult will need to be improved upon this time around - don't just revise 'favourite' topics - this won't be enough, something must be changed this time around.

Follow the instructions in the Revision Cards to make a fast revision timetable and stick to it.

Retaking is hard enough for the reasons above - you want to spend all your time revising as many exam marks as possible - Revision Cards show you what the important topics and questions are.

Retakes - always difficult because no-one wants to have to retake, but if you do have to retake then you need to find out how to gain marks AND how to avoid losing marks !

Use Revision Cards to QUICKLY get this information.

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