Exam & revision period - trends

Take a look at the detailed breakdown of search trends and resources in demand from last year to help you to prepare your resources for this year's exam and revision period. 

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To support Tes authors with resource sharing, we’ve created an overview of current and past trending search terms around the exam and revision period to help make your resource authoring as simple and informed as we can.  

We've highlighted the search trends from the exam and revision period from 2022 and split them in to two sections (March/April and May/June) to make the data more insightful. As well as this, to give a more granular insight into the trends we've provided a breakdown of the top six search terms for several subjects on Tes. As we have done in previous trends campaigns, we've also provided the trends from some different areas of the world, so that you can target specific markets if you wish to. 

We will continue to update the user trends category of the author academy weekly, to further support Tes authors with resource sharing. On the user trends blog posts you'll find a breakdown of each week of 2022, so that you can plan your resource authoring in advance of upcoming trends!

 

March/April 2022 trends

Overall top 20 most searched for terms:

  • Easter

  • Fractions

  • Exam question practice

  • Ratio

  • Probability

  • Macbeth

  • Easter quiz

  • Revision

  • Angles

  • Ukraine

 

  • Assembly

  • Creative writing

  • Trigonometry

  • Unseen poetry

  • Percentages

  • World Book Day 

  • Romeo and Juliet 

  • Comprehension 

  • International Women's Day

  • Pythagoras

Trends by subject

English

Macbeth
Creative writing
Unseen poetry
Romeo and Juliet
Comprehension
Reading Comprehension

 

Maths

Fractions
Ratio
Probability
Angles
Trigonometry
Percentages

 

Science

Photosynthesis
Forces
Electrolysis
Periodic table
Waves
Electricity

 

History

Industrial revolution
Holocaust
Cold War
Black death
Titanic
Vikings

 

Geography

Climate change
Global warming
Ecosystems
Weather
Rivers
Environment

 

Religious studies

Easter
Ramadan
Islam
Lent
Holy week
Buddhism

 

MFL 

Paques
Semana Santa
Translation
French Easter
Les vacances
Easter in France

 

Computing

Social media
Scratch
Python
Online safety
Spreadsheets
Internet safety

 

 

PSHE

Money
Careers
Inequalities
Mental health
British values
Healthy eating

 

Physical Education

Athletics
Rounders
Gymnastics
Health
Cricket
Badminton

 

SEND

Zones of regulation
EAL
Autism
Visual timetable
Dyslexia
Makaton

 

D&T

Food
Nutrition
Materials
Chocolate
Food groups
Alloys

 

Art

Pop art
Colouring
Patterns
Colour
Picasso
Graffiti

 

Topical

Easter quiz
Ukraine
World Book Day
International Women's Day
Easter maths
Earth Day

 

General

Exam question practice
Revision
Assembly
Quiz
Sats
Worksheet

 

Trends by location

To help you to target specific markets

United Kingdom 

Easter
Fractions
Ratio
Easter quiz
Revision
Macbeth
Probability
AQA
Angles
Unseen poetry

 

Australia 

Easter
Fractions
Persuasive writing
Pythagoras
Index laws
Trigonometry
Anzac Day
Algebra
Angles
Poetry

 

China

Circular test
Electricity
Changing sound
Phonics
Weather
VCE
Measure in cm 
Cambridge
Prepositions ville 
Holes KS3

 

USA

#Googleexpeditions
Volume
Ramona's World
Lines best fit
Worksheet
Our planet
Pi Day
Exam question practice
Poetry
Passe compose

 

Rest of world

Exam question practice
Easter
Worksheet
Cambridge
Probability
Ukraine
Fractions
Reading comprehension
Trigonometry
Edexcel

 

May/June 2022 trends

Overall top 20 most searched for terms:

  • Platinum Jubilee
  • Probability
  • Fractions
  • Quiz
  • Exam question practice
  • Revision 
  • Ratio
  • Project
  • Macbeth
  • Angles

 

 

  • Assembly
  • Creative writing 
  • Trigonometry
  • Queen's Jubilee
  • Time
  • Photosynthesis
  • An Inspector Calls
  • Money
  • Comprehension
  • Pythagoras

Trends by subject

English

Macbeth
Creative writing
An Inspector Calls
Comprehension 
Romeo and Juliet
Reading comprehension

 

 

Maths

Probability
Fractions
Ratio
Angles
Trigonometry
Time 

 

Science

Photosynthesis
Forces
Periodic table
Electrolysis
Space
Carbon Cycle

 

History

Stolen generation
Industrial revolution
Cold war
Holocaust
Black death
Titanic

 

Geography

Climate change
Ecosystems
Global warming
Rock cycle
Sustainability
Weather

 

Religious studies

Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Sikhism
Judaism
Philosophy

 

MFL

Translation
Les vacances 
Les choristes 
Translations
La ropa
Cinco de Mayo

 

Computing

Social media
Scratch
Python
Online safety
Spreadsheets
Excel

 

PSHE

Money
Careers
Mental health
Healthy eating
Inequalities
British values

 

Physical education

Athletics
Rounders
Games
Cricket
Javelin
Tennis

 

SEND

EAL
Zones of regulation
Visual timetable
Autism
Dyslexia
Makaton

 

D&T

Food
Nutrition
DT activities
Food groups
Materials
Fast fashion

 

Art

Pop art
Colouring
Photoshop
Graffiti
Colour
Picasso

 

Topical

Platinum Jubilee
Queen's Jubilee
End of term
Transition
End of year quiz
Pride month

 

General

Quiz
Exam question practice
Revision
Project
Assembly
Escape room

 

Trends by location

To help you to target specific markets

United Kingdom

Platinum Jubilee
Probability
Quiz
Revision
Fractions
Ratio
Project
AQA
Macbeth
Queen's Jubilee

 

Australia

Stolen generation
Fractions
#Googleexpeditions
Trigonometry
Pythagoras
Probability
Index laws
Algebra
Forces
Angles

 

China

Circular test
IB
AMC10
Global perspectives
Electricity
Phonics reader
Measure in cm
Job
IAL biology Edexcel
Persuasive writing language

 

USA

Refugee week
Stolen generation
#Googleexpeditions
Our planet
Adjectives
Ramona's World
Worksheet
Proportion
Stripe pyjama boy
Exam Question Practice

 

Rest of world

Exam question practice
Probability
Quiz
Reading comprehension
Fractions
Edexcel
End of year quiz
Platinum Jubilee
Report comments
End of term