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Awarding-body support materials

How to use them to achieve high grades

Awarding bodies offer a range of support materials designed to help you prepare for exams. Surprisingly, these resources are underused and yet are readily accessible online. This column discusses why such material is valuable and how it can best be utilised to produce top-level answers

The specification is the most important document provided by an awarding body. It contains information about: assessment aims and objectives, subject and topic content, ideas and regulations concerning what can and cannot be studied, mark schemes and guidelines concerning preparation for coursework.

Teachers will not necessarily provide you with hard copies of the specification as most are very long and will contain some information that is not relevant to your programme of study. What you are likely to get is a version of their scheme of work. It will interpret the specification and provide a pathway through the multitude of options for you to follow. However, it is still useful to read relevant sections of the specification:

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