Product Description

The only endorsed and approved student resources for AQA GCSE Chemistry. The best selling AQA Science series provides all the support you need to achieve exam success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7638 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

Customer Reviews

Vague and not particularly useful
This guide is vague and in my eyes quite useless. Although the information is presented in a nice pretty colour scheme and has questions which you could do in your sleep... the guide is pretty bad at explaning the need to know. Reasons for my dislike for this guide:
-The book has little boxes that say "Bump Up your Grade" which are often quite useful but in most cases they tell you that you need to know something to bump up your grade but they do not tell you what exactly that is needed to know to increase your grade.
-The guide's contents page are in absolute shambles. It is insanely difficult to look up a certain topic in the book unless you have already seen it before and know where it is. The topics are aplit into numbers... 1.2,1.3 etc but do not give an exact page number and so you need to flick through until you find it, although normally you can have a vagueguess as where abouts in the guide it may be. (fortunately there are not alot of pages)
-However, the book is specific for AQA and has some useful information that will not go amiss which reedemed a single star.

If you are doing AQA GCSE then I would recommend a CGP guide or some other guide and only use this as a last resort as frankly, this guide is useless (although pleasing to look at with lots of nice pictures :D).

Great for revision
I bought this for my son who is currently sitting his mock GCSEs. As he doesn't have a very effective science teacher, this book has been invaluable and he has been able to self-teach. Worth buying.

Couldn't do without!
This book is good staple for specialists and non-specialists alike. The lesson ideas are good and its nice to have suggestions for G&T and special needs - areas I sometimes struggle on with mixed ability classes.
Every teacher using the AQA student book should have a copy!