Amazon.co.uk Review
Designed to help candidates revise for their GCSE English, Maths and Science, this three-CD set tests their command of the basic information needed to get through the exams. The games may appear rather unsophisticated to teenagers used to playing the complex games now on the market, but they are a way of sugar-coating the work needed to revise. (Those who have used Full Marks products at an earlier level should be warned that there is only one new type of game not found on earlier sets, and even some of the questions are repeated from the SATS Key Stage 3 sets.)
Each of the three disks covers 10 to 11 areas of each subject, giving the user a choice of four different games to play on each disk. These test a student's knowledge using multiple choice questions. Each question is colour coded, and the object is to match the answer to a feature of the same colour in the game. If the student gets the answer wrong, the correct solution is highlighted. Should they need further help revising the subject, each level has help pages which give a summary of the field and provide all the information they need to get the correct answer. The software requires a minimum of 16MB RAM, Pentium or equivalent. --Julia Cresswell