In a house of teenagers, the phrase Easter holidays has a hollow, oxymoronic ring to it. Revision timetables, dawning panic, stress, anxiety. And that’s just the parents. No surprise then that many are choosing to outsource the misery to the specialists: Revision courses for GCSE and A level are booming.
These fast-paced, intensive courses focus on common trip points with many exam training techniques. Most run three weeks of courses – divided into 20-hour blocks – throughout the holidays. The best ones are exam-board specific (at A level, this is crucial, less so at GCSE) with small classes (no more than 10).
But what can a revision week achieve that two years of school cannot? A different teaching environment and peer groups are often enough to concentrate the mind, say, providers. Away from their regular peer group, many students are more comfortable asking questions and engaging with the teacher. For parents, it is, at the very least, a guarantee of dedicated revision time away from the distractions of technology.
Note the best fill up quickly, but it’s not too late to find one that suits for location, content and contact time.
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