Helping With A Level Revision at Home: A Parent's Guide
The most useful way to help with A Level revision at home is usually not to teach the subject. Your job is to protect the conditions around serious work: time, quiet, sleep, marked practice, honest conversations and a little distance as your child becomes the person in charge of the revision.
This comparison is published by Revision Library, and Revision Library appears on the list below.
How this list was made
Parents hear less at A Level than they did at GCSE, so this guide focuses on the help that still belongs at home: routines, marking, noticing avoidance, and asking better questions. The named resources were reviewed on 2026-09-17 for whether they help a parent support practice without pretending to be the teacher.
At a glance
| Site | Best for | Price | Account |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revision Library | Best for free printable practice with mark schemes | Everything is free | No account |
| Save My Exams | Best for concise revision notes with worked exam questions | Free, with a paid tier | Free to browse; account for some tools |
| Physics and Maths Tutor (PMT) | Best for exam-style question sheets by topic | Free | No account |
| Medly | Best for free AI-marked practice questions | Free, with a paid tier | Account required |
| AQA | Best for official past papers straight from the exam board | Free | No account |
The full comparison
Revision Library
Best for free printable practice with mark schemesWhen a sixth former says revision is fine, a parent often has very little evidence either way. A calm way in is to ask for the work, not the reassurance: one printed task, one mark scheme, one short review of what changed after marking. The Revision Library library is useful because the work and answers sit together.
Use subject shelves as a way to make practice concrete. A student can choose from A Level Maths, A Level Psychology, A Level Economics, A Level Politics, A Level Sociology, A Level Business or A Level Computer Science, then show you the marked result. You do not need to judge the content to see whether marking happened.
Ask for the mark scheme before you ask for the mark. A score on its own can turn into an argument or a shrug, but a mark scheme shows whether the answer missed knowledge, method, structure, timing or the exact wording. That keeps the conversation adult: what will change next time?
Revision Library is not the whole home plan. It gives printable practice and mark schemes, then the student still has to bring class notes, teacher feedback and exam-board instructions from school or college. For subjects already covered by a plan, the A Level Maths revision page, A Level Psychology revision page, A Level Economics revision page and A Level Politics revision page can help keep the week from becoming random.
Browse A Level practice packs →Save My Exams
Best for concise revision notes with worked exam questionsSave My Exams is a revision platform for GCSE, IGCSE and AS/A Level, with revision notes, exam-style questions, flashcards, mock exams and past papers across more than two dozen subjects. A free account gives access to some content; a paid Premium tier unlocks the rest.
Save My Exams can help when the student needs notes, questions, flashcards, mock exams and past papers in one account-led place. For a parent, the useful question is whether the student is using it to answer and mark questions, not just to read another summary.
Physics and Maths Tutor (PMT)
Best for exam-style question sheets by topicPhysics and Maths Tutor (PMT) is a free resource site with revision notes, worksheets and past-paper questions sorted by topic and exam board, across maths, the sciences and several other GCSE/A Level subjects. It also sells separate paid tutoring, crash courses and printed workbooks alongside the free material.
PMT is useful when a student needs free topic-sorted notes, worksheets and past-paper questions. A parent can ask for one topic to be attempted and reviewed, rather than trying to monitor a whole subject from the doorway.
Medly
Best for free AI-marked practice questionsMedly is an AI tutoring app for GCSE, A Level and IB, where a student works through exam-style questions with an AI that explains, marks and gives feedback in conversation. It runs in an account rather than as a library of files to download, with a free tier alongside paid plans.
Medly may suit a student who wants an answer explained back in conversation and marked immediately. It is account-based and not printable, so it changes the parent role: you can ask what feedback it gave, but you will not have a paper mark scheme to glance over.
AQA
Best for official past papers straight from the exam boardAQA is one of the UK's exam boards, and its site is the primary source for its own GCSE and A Level past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports, free to search and download without an account.
An exam board site is the original place to check its own past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports. Use it when the student is ready for whole-paper practice, while remembering that this guide covers resources for home support rather than confirming any student's exact board or subject route.
In the numbers
Printable A Level practice packs a parent can ask to see marked
- A Level Maths
- 67
- A Level Psychology
- 101
- A Level Economics
- 60
- A Level Politics
- 58
- A Level Sociology
- 32
- A Level Business
- 23
- A Level Computer Science
- 19
How to choose
Start with the relationship, because at A Level the student can shut the door physically or politely. Ask what kind of help they would accept this week: a quiet house, a lift to the library, printed papers, being left alone until dinner, or one check-in after a practice block.
Separate revising from rereading. A student at the table with notes open may be working hard, but you can still ask for evidence that creates feedback: a marked pack from A Level Psychology, a timed set from A Level Economics practice papers, or a corrected question from A Level Politics practice papers.
Keep the check-in short. Try: 'What did the mark scheme show?' or 'Which topic gets tomorrow's half hour?' Those questions respect that the subject belongs to them, while still making revision more than silent reading.
Protect sleep and ordinary life more firmly as exams approach. A Level students can look grown-up while running themselves into the floor. If every conversation becomes revision, step back and fix the conditions: food, sleep, a workable desk, realistic sessions and one evening where nobody discusses marks.
Use whole papers at the right moment. For Maths, A Level Maths practice papers are useful when topic repair has started to turn into exam timing. Earlier in the year, topic packs from A Level Maths may be kinder and more useful.
If you are also deciding whether to spend money, keep that as a separate conversation. A Level decisions are more subject-specific than GCSE decisions and should follow evidence from actual marked work.
Frequently asked questions
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Revision Library resources in this article
Every link below appears in the article above. All of it is free to download, with a full mark scheme.
- A Level Maths/library/a-level-maths
- A Level Psychology/library/a-level-psychology
- A Level Economics/library/a-level-economics
- A Level Politics/library/a-level-politics
- A Level Sociology/library/a-level-sociology
- A Level Maths revision page/revision/a-level-maths-2027
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