Claims in education marketing are usually impossible to check. This page sets out what we will and won't say, so that when a page here does make a claim, you can tell which kind it is.
Claims about research
Where a page says that something works, it names the study or the guidance behind it, and says what that evidence actually covers. Research done with undergraduates in a laboratory isn't the same as research done with Year 11 in a classroom, and we try to be clear about which one we're talking about.
Where the evidence is contested, we say so.
Claims about exam boards
A statement about what a specification requires points at the board's published specification for that qualification. Boards revise their specifications, so claims like that carry the page's review date, and we re-check a page when a board publishes a change.
You can see which specification a piece of content is mapped to on the revision pages. The boards' own assessment material sits alongside it in the past paper archive, so you can check a claim about a paper against the paper itself.
Claims about DoRevision
Any figure about DoRevision itself is labelled as ours and comes with the method: what was counted, over what period, and from which group of people.
Our data has a real limitation, and it's worth stating clearly. The people who use DoRevision chose to use it, so they aren't a representative sample of GCSE students. A figure drawn from them tells you about our users and not about students in general. Wherever we publish our own numbers, that caveat goes with them.
Claims we won't make
- Grade improvements attributed to using DoRevision, unless there's a study we can publish in full to support it.
- Teacher quotes or school case studies that didn't happen.
- Usage or adoption figures we can't reproduce from our own database.
- Comparisons with named competitors based on anything other than their own published material.
Reporting a problem with a source
If a citation on a page is wrong, out of date, or doesn't support the claim it's attached to, tell us. How to do that, and what happens next, is on the about page.