Hey there!
If you’re looking for some colored reference books, here’s a website I recently discovered that has links to plenty of great books, especially for Cambridge. Even so, Edexcel students might also use these for further reading. Hope it helps!
Namira
For Maths B, I would suggest the following books:
After having done each of the chapters from the books (selectively of course, since you possibly can’t do all), you should proceed to the question papers. I think it’s not wise to ignore the text book because often, the tricky sums that we have never come across before often are from the book itself.
Now comes the Unique Coaching question papers, chapter-wise and year-wise both. Unique Coaching question papers have a list of all possible formulae you will need in Maths B, derived from the past papers. Reading the formulae, and writing it down will help you learn them up. For those of you who don’t have access to Unique Coaching, I will be posting the formulae soon.
Besides that, chapter-wise practice helps a great deal initially. For your first revision, I would suggest you to read the formulae for each chapter, and then solve a few sums from each chapter. Eventually, after you have practiced every chapter thoroughly from the books and Unique Chapter-wise, you should spend 10th Grade just solving at least 10 years’ past papers from year-wise Question Papers.
If you have exhausted all these resources, you can also try the Maths B “R” papers, which are generally harder than the Paper 1s and Paper 2s.
It’s also helpful to have a separate copy where you note down all the formulae, and also some pointers you would generally make mentally, such as “be careful of brackets/ recheck your sign changes/ make sure you give the units when wanted” and so on. You could also do sample sums in which you most frequently make mistakes, or some for which you made errors in format.
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.
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:
Edexcel IGCSE Resources 