Textbooks

These are the most important resources!

Each course has its recommended textbook or  series of textbooks. Teachers may use these in class, but often won’t allow them out of the school for fear that they’ll get lost or damaged. If this is true, then, for the sake of around £17, I suggest you buy one. They are your main resource and explain everything in detail with worked examples and lots of practice questions.

There are usually two or three written for each course by different publishers. Ask your teacher what they recommend, or call the relevant exam board. You can also scan Amazon.co.uk searching on the exact course title, but make sure that it is right up to date. If in doubt, ask your teacher or phone the exam board.

Each exam board works with a favoured publisher:

AQA – Nelsonthornes

Edexcel – Pearson

OCR – Oxford United Press (OUP) 

WJEC – Hodder Education

I particularly like the textbooks published by Collins – especially those for Maths.

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