Learning resources

In order that you can be fully in control of your learning, you must have everything you need ready for when you need it. Here are some of the items that are most useful.

1. Text books for each subject. Many schools don't provide them anymore, and shops don't sell them (they sell revise guides instead). Get the most up-to-date text book that is written for your syllabus. Revise guides don't contain enough for you to get a good 'feel' for a subject, and they are not very interesting. Modern text books are usually very well written and enjoyable to use.

2. Revise guides and study guides. These are particularly useful for English and other subjects for which you have to know specialist knowledge (poetry anthologies, Shakespeare, for example)

3. Exam papers. You can get these in the shops, order over the internet or download examples from the exam board's website

4. Syllabuses for each subject. You can get these from the exam board websites. They give you a list of everything you need to know which you can use as a check-list. You've got to know what it is that you've got to learn!

5. Folders, box-files, ring-binders, etc, to keep your notes and other written material organised.

6. Paper. Get supplies of ordinary (A4) and double size (A3) for the notes that you create.

7. Various pens, pencils, crayons, felt-tips, etc, for creating stunning diagrams, memory maps, timelines and other reminders.

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