Access GCSEPod
Beyond the Books – The exam season strain
Access GCSEPod is the online teaching platform designed to give teachers the work-life balance they deserve, and students the confidence to walk into their exams with a smile.
With exam season fast approaching, Access GCSEPod provides students with the tools they need to ace their exams and significantly reduce anxiety and stress that comes with exams.
We’ve put together a report to help you navigate through the psychological challenges both teachers and students face during the exam season. We also explore the key barriers to effective exam preparation, including time constraints and resource limitations, are discussed, along with external influences such as parental involvement and socio- economic factors.
Finally, the report evaluates the impact of GCSE performance on schools, including effects on reputation, Ofsted ratings, funding, and staff morale.
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Students achieve 1.5 grades higher on average than non-users
Top tips and revision strategies for teachers
Why educators love Access GCSEPod
Access GCSEPod breaks down language barriers!
We've got quite a lot of EAL students, and the translation button at the bottom of each pod is a fantastic feature of the platform in fostering increased comprehension.
GCSEPod has really fit into our school ethos
GCSEPod has been invaluable to our Year 11’s going through their mock exams, with many loving the interactive features, enabling them to effectively self-mark, and not wait for a teacher’s feedback during their independent study.
Everything a student and teacher could ask for!
A platform like GCSEPod has everything a student and a teacher could ask for in terms of videos, questions, exam papers, revision tips, promotional material, but the main important feature is its usability, which for an already disengaged student, is paramount.
Access GCSEPod closes gender gaps!
GCSEPod isn’t just being used as a GCSE teaching and learning tool for its Year 10 and 11 students, but has been rolled out across the academy as it looks to close the Progress 8 gap between boys and girls.
High usage correlates to improved P8 scores!
We identified a correlation between high GCSEPod usage and P8, so we promoted GCSEPod more heavily. This saw more than double the number of Pods watched with 16,313 and a P8 of 0.73 for the school (up from the previous year’s 0.17).
