Using ICT Revise in lessons and for homework

ICT Revise is free, has no adverts and needs no accounts, so students can start straight away on any device. This page has a lesson plan you can reuse, homework ideas and a link for every subtopic that you can paste into your class page or email.

Good to know

  • No sign-up. Nothing to set up and no student data to manage.
  • Progress stays on the student’s device, in their browser. There is no class dashboard. To see a student’s progress, ask them to show their My progress page, or to send a screenshot of their results.
  • Students who use more than one device can move their progress with Keep your progress safe on My progress (save a copy, then open it on the other device).
  • Marks are estimates. Written answers are checked against marking points, which is a good guide but not an official Pearson mark. Students can change the mark if they disagree.

Mock exams

  • Practice papers: Paper 1 practice (the theory paper) and the Paper 2 theory knowledge check, timed or untimed.
  • Practical exam preparation: two practice papers for the 3-hour practical exam, each in two 90-minute sections, with data files, a mark scheme students tick themselves, and model solutions you can download.
  • For a mock in the practical exam, set one 90-minute section in class and collect the files and evidence document as you would in the real exam.

A lesson plan you can reuse (about 50 minutes)

  1. Starter (5–10 min): recall. Students open the link for last lesson’s subtopic in Smart Practice (the “Quick practice” link in the table below). It mixes questions they have not seen with ones they got wrong before.
  2. New content (15 min). Teach from the subtopic page, or let students work through its learning units: short steps with a check question after each idea.
  3. Practise (10–15 min). The activities on the page, or for Topics 5 and 6 the live tools and challenges (for example database queries, validation and charts), which say exactly what to change.
  4. Exam question (10 min). Every subtopic page ends with exam-style questions. Students write an answer, mark it, read the feedback and the model answer, and press Try again to improve it. “Choose and justify” questions are good for discussion.
  5. Plenary (5 min). Ask students to check their Topic progress card and name one subtopic to revisit.

Homework ideas

Short (15–20 minutes)

  • A 10-question Revision Challenge on one subtopic (“Challenge” in the table). Ask for a screenshot of the score.
  • Finish the learning units for a subtopic, so it shows as complete on the progress card.
  • Two exam-style questions on the subtopic page, improved with Try again until they reach full marks.

Longer (40–60 minutes)

  • One timed task from the practical exam tasks, in real software, handed in with an evidence document.
  • Paper 1 practice on one topic, then Review my mistakes.
  • Before a test: a Smart Practice session on the whole topic, then the extended (6 and 8 mark) questions.

Each row has three links. Page opens the notes and questions, Quick practice starts a 10-question Smart Practice session straight away, and Challenge opens the Revision Challenge set to that subtopic. Use Copy to copy the full web address of the Challenge link.

Want to change the questions or notes for your class? The Teacher guide explains how the site is organised and how to edit it.