GCSE Mathematics Hub school network meeting - Spring 2020 - AQA resources and revision tips

Oct 20, 2026

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GCSE Mathematics Hub school networking meeting presentation slides booklet for Spring 2020. Covers revision tips and planning, emphasizing revisiting content rather than necessarily reteaching, and supporting students with a plan, materials, and independent learning skills. Includes suggested revision resources and exam tips, with subject-focused examples such as algebra graph plotting, equation forms, and identifying parallel and perpendicular lines. Provides guidance references to AQA specifications and teaching support documents.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages34

Reading Time1 h 26 min

AccessFree to download

Revision tips and planning

Revision techniques and resources

Exam tips

Algebra and subject content examples

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Presentation slides booklet | Published: Spring 2020 AQA Education (AQA) is a registered charity (number 1073334) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (number 3644723) . Our registered address is AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX. Page 2 of 34 |
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Hub school networking meeting | | | Spring 2020 |
| | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | | | | | 2 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | This meeting will be recorded | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Exam boards have an Ofqual requirement to record event audio.
Recordings are kept for the lifetime of the specification and not shared as an accompaniment to session resources.
The recording will begin now. | | | | 3 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | Contents • Revision tips and planning • Revision techniques and resources • Exam tips 4 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Revision tips and planning 5 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | Revision means | | | | --- | --- | --- | | • Relooking at – not necessarily reteaching!
• Perhaps doing something different revisiting the same content.
• Supporting students with a plan, materials and developing independent learning skills. | | | | 6 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | Plan | | | | --- | --- | --- | | • Corbett maths etc
[corbettmaths.com/2016/05/03/revision-checkl](corbettmaths.com/2016/05/03/revision-checkl)ists-forgcse-maths/
• Timetable
• AQA Teaching guidance document (All About Maths) | | | | 7 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | Algebra: Example of DfE’s subject content | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Plot graphs of equations that correspond to straight-line graphs in the coordinate plane; use the form y = mx + c to identify parallel lines and perpendicular lines; find the equation of a line through two given points, or through one point with a given gradient. | | | | 8 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | GCSE Mathematics specification | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | So AQA brought out our specification to look like this… | | | | | 9 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | | Extract from AQA specification 8300 | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Plain text Plain text underlined Bold text
| | | | 10 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | AQA GCSE Teaching guidance | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Please see the AQA Teaching guidance section in the Supporting GCSE Mathematics revision booklet.
Page 4 shows the support for our algebra section. | | | | | 11 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | | AQA GCSE Teaching guidance | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | • Notice the bold is missing so this is for all students sitting either tier.
• The ‘students should be able’section might be useful to students.
• The short questions give clarity and can be used by students. | | | | | 12 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | | AQA GCSE Teaching guidance | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | • Notice the labelling is A9h so the guidance focuses on the bold text (for higher work) .
• Again, the short questions area useful source of material to support revision. | | | | | 13 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | | | | Big picture – for key topics | | | | --- | --- | --- | | • One idea, that many pupils value, is creating a big picture overview for a topic.
• Ideally this may have been created as part of earlier teaching to gather facts and processes together.
• Organised students will have a good set of notes that they have collected; others won’t.
• The next slide shows an example. | | |

FAQs

What is the purpose of the meeting for GCSE Maths hub schools?

It shares revision tips, planning approaches, and subject-focused guidance to support teaching and exam preparation during Spring 2020.

How should revision be approached according to the slides?

Revision should involve revisiting content, sometimes doing something different with the same material, and supporting students with a clear plan and resources to build independent learning skills.

What kind of resources are recommended for revision planning?

The presentation suggests using resources such as Corbettmaths and referencing AQA teaching guidance, alongside using a timetable and the relevant AQA teaching documents.

Oct 20, 2026

Uploaded by dawugda