Revision with Schoolsnet

It’s brilliant for homework, revision and all round education. It’s also fun to use which is not surprising since it was created by a 16 year old

Tom Hadfield was a talented and determined teenager who 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 created the site when he was undergoing his own GCSE exams, 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.