Product Description

This motivating Student Book is written to be accessible to all students. It contains carefully graded questions to provide sufficient support and extension material for all levels of attainment. Extra exam-style questions at the end of each topic ensure thorough preparation for the external assessments.

•  Inspires students from day one with captivating videos and exciting animations on ActiveTeach
• Gives students unparalleled support with clear and motivating Students' Books
• Motivates students with interactive ICT resources directly accessed from the pages of the FREE ActiveBook CD-ROM that accompanies each Students' Book

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6175 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

Just dreadful - Schools: Don't buy - Students: Get a CGP one
I am currently studying on the EdExcel science GCSE course, and I have to say, the quality of this book is appalling. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy "science", but this book it just dreadful.

Personal complaints:
1. Book content doesn't always match the exam. Often the exam asks about things which havn't even been mentioned in the book, or have been quashed in a little table to the side and made to look unimportant when actually it is important to learn.
2. Random pictures on many pages irrelevant to the topic, or have been bashed together poorly. For example, there's a picture on a page of some random guy, and the caption under it is something like "X cares about X". They may as well have gone round London for a day taking photos of the general public.
3. Poorly written in general
4. Boring, Especially the questions
5. ActiveBook CD throws an error before crashing on one of my PCs (Though I think this is a 1 off). Still, poor programming
6. SIMILAR QUESTIONS ARE REPEATEDLY ASKED OVER AND OVER AGAIN THROUGH WHOLE CHAPTERS
7. Who ever wrote this clearly spent a couple of days touring Britain and then tried to make a whole book about it. For example, Hockerton spreads over about 8 pages - 8 pages of slightly different images with slightly different captions under them.

In short, this is EdExcel selling a poorly written book for commercial reasons only. Point 6 has to be one of the easiest to spot examples of poor writing. There are much better books around in this topic such as as CGP ones.

Interesting and Accessible
This book covers B1, C1, P1 of the Edexcel GCSE 360 Science course.

The topics covered in Biology are Environment, Genes, Electrical and Chemical Signals and Use Misuse and Abuse.

The topics covered in Chemistry are Patterns in Properties, Making Changes, There's only one earth and Designer Products.

The topics covered in physics are Producing and Measuring Electricity, You're in charge, Now you see it, now you don't and Space and its mysteries.

My son used this in conjunction with the accompanying revision book and workbook. He also used the Richard Parsons revision guides (CGP)for edexcel 360 science - chemistry, physics and biology. He achieved 3 A* on his first 3 papers (P1a, P1b & C1a). He is awaiting the results of the last three papers which he took a week ago (C1b, B1a, B1b).