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Non-exhaustive Revision List for Paper 2

GCSE Higher Edexcel

sure you revise (most likely topics in bold):

·         Proportion – i.e. recipe ingredients

·         Prime factors and Highest Common Factor

·         Currency conversion

·         Loci

·         Construction – i.e. bisecting a angle, perpendicular bisector, construct a triangle

·         Area and circumference of circle

·         Solving equations by trial and error

·         Pythagoras

·         Trigonometry

·         Compound interest

·         Mean from grouped data (quite easy but often done incorrectly!)

·         Solve quadratic using formulae (given on from of exam)

·         Standard form

·         Volume (remember some formulae given at front of exam)

·         Area of shapes (some formulae given at front of exam)

·         Bearings

·         Pie charts

·         Solve linear equations

·         Box plots

·         Nth term and sequences

·         Tree diagrams

·         Substitution

·         Circle Theorems

·         Indices

·         Solving linear equations

·         Expanding and factorising - linear and quadratic expressions

Harder Topics to revise for those aiming for an A or higher:

·         Vectors

·         Surds

·         Upper and lower bounds

·         Simultaneous equations

·         Direct and inverse proportion

·         Histograms

·         Sine and cosine rules and area of triangle using formulae.

·         Area of a sector