The GCSE map

The GCSE Map is the KS3 map carried on into Years 10 and 11. It is free and needs no account, and so are the GCSE flashcards built from it.

What it is not, yet

The map and the cards are GCSE. The tutoring is not, yet. Our professors teach Key Stage 3 (Years 7 to 9). GCSE tutoring is next.

What is in it

839 GCSE topics	every Year 10 and Year 11 topic in six GCSE courses
6 courses	Maths, Combined Science, English Language, English Literature, Geography and History
1 exam board	AQA. It was written against the AQA specifications; AQA has not reviewed or approved it

The six courses are AQA Mathematics (8300), Combined Science: Trilogy (8464), English Language (8700), English Literature (8702), Geography (8035) and History (8145). Combined Science covers Biology, Chemistry and Physics together; the three separate science GCSEs are not on the map.

Each GCSE topic is joined to the KS3 ideas it builds on. That is the reason the map exists. Very little at GCSE starts from nothing, so when a Year 10 topic will not stick, the map shows which Year 8 or Year 9 idea underneath it needs the work. The dimmer dots on the map are Years 7 to 9, still tappable, so you can follow a GCSE topic all the way back.

A few things the map tells you about each topic:

• Tier. In Maths and Combined Science, a topic says whether it is Foundation and Higher, Higher only, or a mix.
• The school's choice. In English Literature, History and Geography, schools choose texts, studies and options. Each optional topic names the choice it belongs to, so you can skip the ones your child's school does not teach.
• Year 10 or Year 11. This is our layout, not a timetable. Your child's school may teach a topic earlier or later.

Where to open it

Without an account. The public map is at aitutors.me/gcse, with a Chinese edition at /zh/gcse. Every topic is also listed as plain text, one page per subject, linked from the foot of the map. The KS3 map and the GCSE map link to each other.

On your child's own page. The map tab of My Goals, at aitutors.me/study/goals, has a KS3 | GCSE switch. It opens on GCSE for a child in Year 10 or 11, and on KS3 for everyone else. Switching keeps the topic and subject your child had open.

As an aim. A child can aim at a GCSE topic as a stretch. When they pick one, the map asks "This one's GCSE — want to try it anyway?", and Aim here anyway sets it, with the route of topics that come first. It is a nudge, not a gate. See Goals and the learning plan.

The GCSE flashcards

There are free GCSE flashcard decks for all six courses, playable in the browser with no account. Open the flashcard Atlas, pick a subject, then pick Year 10 or Year 11: the GCSE shelves carry a GCSE tag.

• Maths, Combined Science, English Language and Geography have a deck for every topic.
• English Literature and History have decks for the skills every text or study shares, and for some of the texts and studies schools choose. The others are on the map as topics, with no cards yet. A deck for one choice names it in its title.

A signed-in child opens their own Atlas at aitutors.me/study/cards/atlas, switches it from Years 7–9 to GCSE, and adopts decks into their sky the same way as KS3 decks. See Flashcards and The Atlas.

Tier and options

A child in Year 10 or 11 sees a Your GCSE panel on the Atlas GCSE shelf. In it they set:

• Their tier, for Maths and for Combined Science (one setting covers all three sciences): Foundation, Higher or Not sure.
• What their school teaches, under What does your school teach?: the texts, studies and options their class takes.

Each tap saves at once. The Atlas then puts your child's own decks first; other schools' options and Higher-only decks fold away underneath, still one tap from being opened. Adopt all on a tiered deck still takes every card. The child sets this, not the parent: it is not on the parent dashboard.

Clips

The GCSE map has a Free clips on this map band: a hand-picked short video for some topics, with All GCSE clips leading to the full list at /clips.

What is not here yet

Plainly, so nothing surprises you:

• GCSE tutoring. The professors teach KS3. A Year 10 or 11 child can still use them, and they are useful for the KS3 ideas GCSE work stands on, but they do not teach at GCSE level. GCSE tutoring is next.
• Other exam boards. AQA only. With another board, the references, set texts and studies may differ.
• The separate sciences. Only Combined Science: Trilogy.
• A teacher's review. No teacher has reviewed the GCSE map yet, and AQA has not reviewed or approved it. It was drafted from the six published AQA specifications, then checked by script and by re-reading a sample.
• Every English Literature and History option as cards. Some have decks; the rest are topics only for now.

If your child is in Year 10 or 11, Using aitutors.me in Year 10 or 11 puts all of this together in one place.

Related

• The KS3 curriculum map — Years 7 to 9, which the GCSE map builds on.
• GCSE options — choosing GCSE subjects in Year 8 or 9.
• Flashcards — how cards, decks and daily review work.