IGCSE Edexcel Bengali

For Bengali, I’d advise you to do the following:

• Download and read carefully (learning the translations, idioms, etc.) the Edexcel IGCSE Bengali Specification
• Download and read the Edexcel IGCSE Bengali Teacher Guide
• For a thorough practice for Question 1, which consists of the translation of 5 Bengali sentences to English, you can sit and practice as many of those as possible from past papers. Although I haven’t come across any repeats, I still found it helpful to pick up vocabulary from those. It’s also a great boost to your confidence and definitely something to do when you don’t feel like doing the longer passage translations.
• For Questions 2 and 3, practice past papers and highlight the words unfamiliar to you, list them down and learn them up.
• Make a list of topic specific পরিভাষা / terminology such as those based on Earthquake, Environment, Global Warming, Seasons, Professions and other common and recurrent topics. This will also help in your essays.
• Read some sample essays from easy essay books or skim through them actually. (Because this doesn’t help much).
• Brainstorm points for essays and list them, if you find yourself too lazy to write out essays properly.
• For past papers, you can use the Edexcel website
• For Bengali revision and tips online, Shawon Notes may also prove to be a helpful source.

Hope these help you in your prep!

June 29, 2015June 29, 2015 by namira1610 Tags: Bangla, Beng, Bengali, igcse Bengali, igcse edexcel bangla, IGCSE EDEXCEL BENGALI Leave a comment

General Guidelines on IGCSEs

Firstly, check how much time you have till your IGCSEs. Have you? Great.

If you have around 2 years left, go to the pearson edexcel igcse website.

Now go to the subject you chose to take, and download the specification. Move on to the Course Materials section, go to the Teaching and learning materials, and download the Scheme of Work and Teacher Guide. Remember, just because it says Teacher guide, doesn’t mean it can’t help you as a student! The Scheme of Work and Teacher Guide has a general outline of the topics you should study/cover in a week, and the extra details you might need to cover. Besides the obvious, the Specification lists a number of reference books, websites etc which might come in handy!

Now that you have all the Edexcel materials covered, you can move on to other sources of learning. Remember that although the Edexcel book may seem plain, uninteresting or uninformative, you won’t realise its true importance till your final year. What I am trying to say is, Edexcel books are cleverly crafted and require you to read between the lines.Reference books will surely aid you along the way to fill in those blanks. But right before your IGCSEs, make sure you read the Edexcel books cover to cover, every single line and even those pictures which you think are not important. Trust me, they are!

After you’re thoroughly done with a chapter (or at least you feel you are), try buying those chapterwise question papers for as many subjects you can find and doing atleast 5 questions from each. If you finish the whole chapter-related question paper, you’ll finally get the trend of the questions set. This is especially helpful for Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Pmaths.
For Maths and Pmaths, here in Bangladesh we have Unique Coaching question papers which are absolute life saviors. For Phys and Chem we have Momentum question papers. I haven’t found any for Biology or Econ.

Some good websites for most subjects in general (as in, question papers, markschemes, notes, revision guides etc) are:

Shawon Notes
Past Papers.net
NZKhan
BBC Bitesize
Bilal Ahmed Blog (has all the latest igcse papers)

Also, if you’re into using iOS/Android applications for learning, try Guru App for various IGCSE subjects, which has MCQs that you might want to practice when you don’t feel like studying.

June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by namira1610 Tags: Beng, Bengali, Bio, Biology, Chem, Chemistry, Eco, Econ, Economics, Edexcel, Edexcel IGCSE, Eng, English, English Language B, Further Pure Mathematics, Helpful, IGCSE, igcse edexcel, Links, Math B, Mathematics B, Maths B, Olevel, Pdf, Pdfs, Phys, Physics, Pure Math, Pure Maths, Resources, revision, Website, Websites Leave a comment

Hello Edexcel IGCSE Examinees!

To tell you a bit about myself, I am Namira, a May 2015 candidate. I have always felt that school notes and textbooks were never enough. I scouted through the Web, I went to seniors and asked whether we need tutors at home. At the end of the day, I never really knew whom to trust, or what to believe. I never came across one thing that would answer me, is doing this going to be enough to get me those A*s?

Regardless of all that, I did eventually get past my IGCSEs, and hopefully, so will all of you, and with very good results, if I may add! To help you along the way, I decided to make a compilation of the materials which really did help me, or I found helpful, even if it were too late to study them.

In each blog post, I’ll add links and files relating to one IGCSE subject. I had eight IGCSE subjects, listed below:

• English Language B
• Bengali
• Mathematics B
• Further Pure Mathematics
• Physics
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Economics

June 22, 2015February 8, 2022 by namira1610 Tags: Beng, Bengali, Bio, Biology, Chem, Chemistry, Eco, Econ, Economics, Edexcel, Eng, English, English Language B, Further Pure Mathematics, Helpful, IGCSE, Links, Math B, Mathematics B, Maths B, Olevel, Pdf, Pdfs, Phys, Physics, Pure Math, Pure Maths, Resources 6 Comments