How can I revise for my exams?
Explore all the ways to revise with BBC Bitesize!
Check your GCSE exams using our helpful guide to GCSE exam dates 2026 or find your SQA exams using our guide to the Scottish exams in 2026.
Revise with practice questions
Want to practise GCSE exam-style questions? Bitesize quizzes are based on past papers, complete with graphs and images. Improve your exam skills with our useful quiz feedback.
GCSE maths quizzes and exam practice
Practise maths with our wide range of quiz types and feel exam-ready!
GCSE science quizzes and exam practice
Test your science savvy with over 1,000 free exam questions for biology, chemistry, physics and combined science.
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Combined science
GCSE English literature quizzes and exam practice
Choose the text you're studying and the topic you want to practise.
Text | Quiz title |
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An Inspector Calls | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
A Christmas Carol | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Animal Farm | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Blood Brothers | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Frankenstein | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Jane Eyre | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Great Expectations | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Macbeth | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Romeo & Juliet | Plot summary; Characters; Themes; Form, structure and language |
Quizzes and exam practice for more GCSE subjects
There are many types of interactive practice on BBC Bitesize. Choose your subject and quiz topic.
History
Interactive activities to help you revise the Elizabethan era, Germany in the 20th century and the Cold War.
Topic | Quiz title |
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Elizabeth I [AQA] | Court and parliament; Troubles at home and abroad; Elizabethan life |
Elizabeth I [Edexcel] | Early rule; Religious Settlement; Challenges to Queen Elizabeth's rule; Elizabethan life |
Germany [AQA] | Growth of democracy; The depression; Experience under the Nazis |
Germany [Edexcel] | Weimar Republic; Rise of the Nazi Party; Dictatorship; Women, minorities, living standards |
Cold War [AQA] | Origins; Development; Transformation |
Cold War [Edexcel] | Origins 1941-1956; The Cold War 1958-1970; The end 1972-1991 |
Geography
Pick your preferred type of quiz for exam practice tailored to your exam board.
Computer science
Decide how you want to revise with these computer science questions written by experts, based on past papers.
How to prepare for your exams with past papers
Past papers can help you to feel familiar with a subject and the format of an exam ahead of your tests.
Choose your subject and exam board to download question papers and mark schemes, see worked example questions with step-by-step solutions, and read our top tips drawn from past exam papers.
Subject | Exam boards |
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Maths | AQA past papers; Edexcel past papers; OCR past papers |
Biology | AQA past papers; Edexcel past papers; OCR Gateway papers; OCR 21st Century papers |
Chemistry | AQA past papers; Edexcel past papers; OCR Gateway papers; OCR 21st Century papers |
Physics | AQA past papers; Edexcel past papers; OCR Gateway papers; OCR 21st Century papers |
English Literature | AQA past papers; Edexcel past papers; OCR past papers |
English Language | AQA past papers; Edexcel past papers; OCR past papers |
Study support and academic skills
If you’re searching for some extra study support in the run up to your GCSE, Highers or National 5 exams, then look no further. Bitesize will support you through your studies and other life challenges.
Exams and revision
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Study skills
We asked the experts to talk through the best study methods and techniques for you to use.
Revision: Timetables and planning
Some top tips to help you get organised with your revision.
What I wish I'd known before my exams
There’s no one better to tell you how to prepare for exams than people who have just taken them!
How to use flashcards properly
Find out where you might be going wrong with flashcards.
Your top GCSE and Nationals revision FAQs answered
Hear some common FAQs, with advice from teacher Ben Wardle.
"Shouldn't you be revising?"
How to respond to unhelpful comments about exams with advice from a life and careers coach.
Quiz! What are your study strengths?
Metacognition is a process which can improve your study skills.
Revision tools to help you prepare
Supercharge your revision with flashcards
These interactive flashcards, created by experts, can help you to revise with commonly used terms, concepts and quotes.
GCSE revision podcasts from Bitesize and BBC Sounds
Prefer learning on the go? Check out the Bitesize and Sounds GCSE revision podcasts. Each episode covers a different GCSE topic in biology, chemistry, physics, English literature and study support.
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Take a deep dive into GCSE biology with host Dr Alex Lathbridge.
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Delve into GCSE chemistry with Tulela Pea and Dr Sunayana Bhargava.
GCSE Physics - revision podcasts
Revise core physics topics with hosts James Stewart and Ellie Hurer.
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Prepare for your history exams with these podcasts covering key facts, people and events.
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Supercharge your English literature revision by listening to these podcasts on set texts and poetry.
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Education influencer Ibz Mo talks through some of the best study methods and techniques.
Download the Bitesize app
Revise on the go with flashcards, quizzes and study guides in the BBC Bitesize app. Available on mobile and tablet.
GCSE science video playlists
These playlists bring together all the Bitesize videos from GCSE biology, chemistry and physics to help you revise topics quickly and visually.
BBC Bitesize study guides
Revise by subject
We've pulled together our subject-specific GCSE, Higher and National 5 revision resources into these collections. Everything you need to revise a subject, all in one place.
Check out our top tips for GCSE exam revision:
Five tips to help you boss your GCSE maths revision
GCSE revision guides
Choose your GCSE subject and start revising for your GCSE exams. We’ve put together study guides for all the different examining bodies, including: AQA, WJEC, Edexcel and OCR.
More GCSE revision guides
Scottish Higher study guides
Choose a subject and start revising for your Scottish Higher exams. We’ve got revision resources to help you with all your exams from Maths and Biology to Spanish and Physical Education.
More Scottish Higher study guides
Scottish National 5 study guides
Pick a subject and revise for your Scottish National 5 exams. Our revision resources will help you with your examinations from Chemistry and Physics to French and Business Management.