Website review: Seneca Learning

www.senecalearning.com
Free
Ages: 11 to 18

Reviewed by Adam (15) who is profoundly deaf and wears cochlear implants.

Adam

"Throughout the first lockdown, I was able to use the website Seneca Learning to supplement my GCSE studies and I used it to revise for my mocks in January. Seneca is a free-to-use online platform, which allows students to revise content covered both in GCSEs and A-Levels.

One of the reasons I found it so useful was the extensive coverage of different exam boards and curriculums on the platform. All common GCSE subjects are included, along with their respective curriculum, and it’s this adherence to the specific curriculum of each exam board, in my opinion, that makes it more appealing than other platforms such as BBC Bitesize, which only provides generalised resources for each subject.

Once you navigate past the main menu and choose which subject you want to study, you have a choice of which topic to focus on. Seneca uses a variety of visual techniques, such as gap-fills, scrolling bullet points and short, sharp bursts of exam questions, to either teach you new information, or reinforce knowledge that you’ve already picked up in class.

It should be noted that the most effective way to revise using Seneca is not just to steam through all the content at once, never to return to the platform, but instead to gradually reinforce your knowledge over time, through repeating the learning process for a specific topic multiple times. This helps increase what Seneca refers to as your ‘memory strength’. I would highly recommend Seneca, it has helped me a lot."