Tom Hadfield, a talented and determined teenager. conceived and created his first website, Soccernet, with his father, Greg. He went on (again with dad's help) to create Schoolsnet, an excellent study and revision site for 16-year-olds. And because Tom has very recent memories of taking his GCSEs, he has produced a site that’s in complete sympathy with the needs and concerns of hard pressed students.

Click on Revision and you get a long list of subjects under familiar headings like Science, English, Business Studies, Maths and History, and each of the headings are neatly subdivided.

English gets close attention – the precise topics and books covered by the NEAB syllabus (Northern Examinations Assessment Board) are listed. If you’re being examined by NEAB, you’ll find the details invaluable, thorough, engrossing and organised in a series of ‘lessons’.

Click on any of the other subjects and you’ll get a uniform page which tackles the subject in the form of lessons (which really works, by the way): Lesson Aim, Lesson Summary, Revision Tip and Main Lesson. The layout is excellent – brief statements about what is to be learned, and how it’s to be understood and remembered. And the good thing is, the language is not patronising at all.

Once you complete the lesson, you come to a series of tick-box and pairing-up exercises. Submit your answers and they are automatically marked. The questions and instructions tend to reinforce what has been learned, in a rather clever way, so keep your wits about you!

The questions are followed by ideas for discussions with friends (history) – with printable pages; a succinct glossary of the terms used, sometimes a pop quiz and useful links. There's everything here the 16-year-old would want, with no time-wasting.

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Revision on Schoolsnet