Study
Resources
Educator covers fact recall and the daily habit. For longer-form revision, exam practice, and edge cases, use these alongside.
Official Eduqas
Source-of-truth for what's on the paper. Every revision claim should trace back to one of these.
- Qualification pageHub
Hub page with spec, sample assessment materials, examiner reports, and digital teaching resources.
- Specification (C560)PDF
The actual document examiners write papers from. Lists every assessable point across the six content areas.
- Sample assessment materialsPDF
Specimen exam paper plus mark scheme. Shows the question style and length expectations.
- Latest examiners' reportPDF
What students got wrong on the most recent exam, what marks were missed, where the cohort underperformed. The single best 'what to revise' signal.
- Component 1 FAQsPDF
Common student/teacher questions about the written exam. Covers structure, timing, and grading edge cases.
- Guidance for teachingPDF
Eduqas's expanded sub-topic breakdown of the six content areas — useful as a checklist of what should already be familiar before the exam.
Official AQA
Educator covers the AQA 8585 spec too — broad-content overlap with Eduqas, plus AQA-specific items (vitamin E, vitamin K, antioxidant function, sodium and phosphorus as named minerals).
Official WJEC (Welsh-medium)
WJEC and Eduqas are the same awarding body — Eduqas is the English-language brand. WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition mirrors Eduqas C560 with Welsh culinary heritage examples.
Free revision platforms
Use alongside the daily Educator practice — these are best for working through topic explanations and longer questions.
Past papers
Past-paper practice is non-negotiable in the final weeks. Do under timed conditions, then mark with the official scheme.
Textbook
Ella's recommendation — paid, but the canonical paper reference for everything in the spec.