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CGP Revision Guide - GCSE Mathematics AQA Modular

Advantages: Colourful, Fun, Useful
Disadvantages: It's revision

Having already done two GCSE maths exams, I am currently in the process of revising for my last. The course I am doing is AQA Modular (3300). I have found this revision guide invaluable. It covers modules one, three and five, meaning you can look up anything that you are not sure about. Modules two and four are coursework, which varies from school to school, so they cannot include these. This book is aimed at those students taking the higher tier paper. The Layout CGP books are famous for their fun and colourful way of presenting information. This guide is no exception. It includes useful diagrams of graphs and shapes as well as boxes of the most important information if you just want a quick memory jog. There are worked examples that show you exactly how to get the correct answer. The style of writing is fairly informal, making it ...

matty0501 01.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of CGP GCSE Mathematics AQA Modular Specification The Revision Guide Higher Level - Richard Parsons

Mathematics for humour fanatics - who would've thought it?

Advantages: Adds humour to a subject usually devoid of it. Easy layout to understand. Short and concise.
Disadvantages: Easier to remember humourous parts that sometimes detracted from learning. Odd bits aren't funny.

Having studied the laborious and lengthy notes scribed by my bewildered hands during long lessons, my mind failed many times to absorb the information and left me too drained to contrive any meaning or imaginative alternative to make it better. Then one fine day, I awoke to find a copy of GCSE Mathematics The Revision Guide (Higher Level) in my stocking for Christmas. This tome was teaming with a plethora of puns and witty illustrations, that invigorated my senses, and filled me with the intrigue required to read on. Whilst this somewhat detracted at infrequent moments from the true purpose of improving my mathematical abilities, it nonetheless served its purpose of making remember key terms (and in particular Pythagoras Theorem). I would regale you with some of the jokes, however they would perhaps not be so fitting outside ...

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Review of GCSE Mathematics Revision Guide: Higher (Revision Guides) - Richard Parsons

Meet Christine, Herbie's Evil Cousin

Advantages: Great suspense and decent plot
Disadvantages: Feels very dated and some of the effects are laughable

today's big budget, CGI packed horrors. What I also enjoy about Christine is that the stars are pretty minor league, except for maybe Harry Dean Stanton, allowing you to watch them without comparing them to previous roles. In the lead as Arnie Cunningham is Keith Gordon, who is absolutely brilliant at playing the nerdy, geek who suffers from a lack of confidence. Whilst I enjoyed his performance as the nerd, I must admit I struggled with how his character changed and it was not so much to do with a poor performance but more to do with it being a pretty unbelievable transformation. Despite this, I cannot really fault Gordon's performance; the same can be said for John Stockwell who plays his best friend Dennis Guilder, a school jock who has grown up as Arnie's best friend. There is a sort of rawness to both Stockwell's and Gordon ...

christianfilmcritic 09.04.2008 · Read full review
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