DoRevision is a free revision platform for UK students sitting GCSEs, and for the teachers and parents helping them. Everything on it is built around one idea: revision works when you are recalling material and being told what you got wrong, not when you are rereading a page of notes. So the site is made of short interactive activities that ask you questions, mark them properly and keep your progress, rather than pages to scroll past.
What we make
The core of the site is the revision module: a sequence of short teaching cards interleaved with questions, sized to be finished in one sitting of roughly fifteen minutes. Every module belongs to a single published exam-board specification, for example AQA GCSE Computer Science 8525, and to the topics inside it, because the same subject is examined differently by different boards and a generic explainer quietly hides that.
Full coverage is live for AQA, CCEA and Edexcel, across 87 GCSE subjects and 1,820 interactive revision modules. That sentence is generated from what is actually published, so it can never promise coverage we have not finished building.
Alongside the modules there is a free past-paper archive linking the boards' own question papers, mark schemes and examiner reports, a set of revision guides for students and parents, and a teacher area with planning tools, printable sheets and subject guides. None of it sits behind a login or a paywall.
How the content is written
Every module is written against the exam board's published specification document, topic by topic, and is attached to the specific spec points it covers. That is what lets a specification page list the topics in the board's own wording and link each one to the modules that teach it, and it is what lets a teacher check coverage rather than take our word for it.
Questions are marked on our servers. The correct answer is never sent to the browser, so it cannot be found by reading the page, and feedback explains the mark rather than showing a bare tick or cross. How many attempts a question took is recorded too, because that is the useful signal for what to revise again.
We get things wrong sometimes. Every step in a module has a report option that sends us the exact step, and teachers who spot a mistake are welcome to email us instead. Modules carry a student rating and a teacher rating shown separately, so the quality signal from someone who teaches the subject is not averaged away by the one from someone who enjoyed the animation.
We are independent of the exam boards
DoRevision is not endorsed by, affiliated with or approved by AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas, SQA, CCEA or any other awarding body. We name specifications and quote their codes only to say which syllabus a piece of content follows. Anything an exam board administers, including grade boundaries, exam entry and coursework deadlines, comes from the board or your school, never from us.
How a free site pays for itself
There is no subscription, no trial, no card and nothing to buy. Running costs are covered by advertising, served by Google AdSense, which is why you will see adverts on some pages. Funding the site this way is a deliberate trade: it keeps every module reachable by a student whose family cannot spend anything on revision. What we do with advertising cookies, and how to refuse them, is set out in full in our Cookie Policy.
We do not sell personal data, and revision content is never shaped by an advertiser.
Who we are and where we are
DoRevision is an independent service, run from the United Kingdom. It is not part of an exam board, a school or a publisher. We are the data controller for everything described in our Privacy Policy, we follow the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and the rules for using the site are in our Terms of Use.
Accounts are for people aged 13 and over. Public profiles are off until a student switches one on, and can be switched off again at any time. If you are ever worried about another user, a username or something on a public profile, tell us and we will look at it first.
Talk to us
One address reaches us for everything: [email protected]. A person reads every message and we aim to reply within five working days. The contact page explains what to include so we can help faster, and covers corrections, account problems, data requests, safeguarding, schools, advertising and press.