Exam support for Parents and Carers
The Oxford Revise Team understands the challenges of guiding children through assessments and exams; it’s tough work! In fact, many of us feel like we’ve taken the tests ourselves. That’s why together, we’re here to support you and your child every step of the way!
Join the Campaign Against Cramming
For too long, cramming has been accepted as part of the exam experience. Today, we’re saying no.
No to late-night revision sessions. No to disrupted sleep. And no to the last-minute panic that leaves students feeling overwhelmed and parents feeling helpless.
Because effective revision isn’t about squeezing months of learning into the week before an exam. It’s about building knowledge gradually, practising regularly, and developing confidence over time.
At Oxford Revise, we’re here to support your child every step of the way. With expert guidance, award-winning revision guides and practical advice throughout this site, we’ll help them develop revision habits that really work.
Together, we can help students move away from uncertainty into resilience, building the habits that turn stress into confidence.
Starting Secondary School
Moving to secondary school brings a lot of changes, unknowns, and feel quite unsettling for both children and their families. The team have put together some advice based on their experiences of this time. You’ll also find a useful checklist to tick off before the start of term.
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The Oxford Revise expert team is made up of teachers, examiners, cognitive science experts and revision specialists who all want happy, confident children doing their best in exams.
They’ve got years of experience supporting children and are ready to share their advice and answer your questions!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Our Frequently Asked Questions page is packed with practical advice to support every stage of your child’s revision journey. From how to get started and what effective revision looks like, to tips on planning, study techniques, and using Oxford Revise resources – it’s all here in one place.
A parents' guide to GCSEs
What revision habits should I be encouraging? What do the 9-1 grades mean? Also also, how do I support my child through their GCSEs? Read on for plenty of tips from the Oxford Revise Team.
How to support your child with A Levels
Discover lots of simple advice on how to support your child with A Levels. From helping with motivation and looking out for signs of stress, to preparing for results day.
How to support your child during exams
Check out our top tips videos for plenty of ways you can support your child – even after their exams have started. From helping them stay focused, to strategies for managing stress, we’ve got you covered!
Best-selling GCSE Revision guides
Best-selling A Level Revision guides
Boost your child’s exam success with Oxford Revise
Oxford Revise is designed to guide your child in developing a healthy revision habit, to making the most of their study time, in order to achieve exam success.
Revision based on science
Firstly, you need to know that your child has support that will make a difference. You can trust Oxford Revise guides to help your child because the approach has been developed using proven cognitive science strategies. With clear structure and proven techniques, our easy-to-use revision guides make studying simple and effective for all ages.
The Oxford Revise approach
Our revision guides make revision straightforward, with easily accessible resources and tips including:
- Knowledge Organisers explain key information clearly, making complex topics easier to understand.
- Quick-fire recall questions reinforce learning and ensure retention, helping your child remember what they’ve studied.
- Exam-style questions build your child’s confidence and exam readiness, ensuring they feel prepared on exam day.
Structured study sessions
The Oxford Revise three-step-approach breaks down all exam topics and content into manageable chunks. Not only does this help to make revision feel under control, but also helps your child to identify the subjects and topics that they are confident in and the ones that need their attention.
Comprehensive resources
Access a vast range of FREE expert-led content and resources to build your child’s confidence and promote effective learning, so they feel fully prepared for exams. This includes videos, podcasts, articles, past papers, revision planners, student packs, quick-fire retrieval questions, expert tips, mark schemes, and much more.
Personalised revision support
Reduce your child’s stress levels with practical strategies and tools to handle revision across multiple subjects. Through our study planners and specialist student packs (metacognition and self-regulation), they’re empowered to manage their exam preparation effectively.
Going beyond the basics to support students and parents
Supporting students and parents throughout the exam revision process through expert-led content such as videos from the expert Oxford Revise team, creating a strong encouraging community.