Our new guides for GCSE and A level students, published by Cambridge University Press, are available to download FREE now!

Today, working in partnership with Cambridge University Press, we launch Starting A levels: your guide to exam success, the second of three publications to mark the launch of CUP's latest series of GCSE and A level text books. You can find out more about CUP's extensive range of educational resources at: https://www.cambridge.org/ukschools/. 

The three 'quick reference' guides - two for students and parents and one, published later this month, for teachers, curriculum and pastoral managers and school and college leaders - are written by Mike Moores and myself, and draw on our extensive experience as teachers and examiners. Copies of the latest guide and its earlier stablemate, Starting GCSEs: your guide to exam success, are available FREE to download.

You can get Starting GCSEs here and Starting A levels here. The third title in the series, our forthcoming teachers and school and college leaders' guide, Curriculum 2015: your guide to the new qualifications landscape, will be available through the Breslin and Cambridge University Press websites in due course.

We are grateful to Michael McGarvey and his team at CUP for commissioning us to produce the guides, and to members of our Expert Panel who have reviewed earlier drafts of the three publications.

On a personal note, as I said at the launch of the first guide last month, I have loved working with Mike Moores on these books. Mike has been a mentor, guide and friend since the outset of my teaching career and, in producing these texts and last year's summary of educational research and policy over the past 40 years for the British Educational Research Association (BERA): 40@40: a portrait of 40 years of educational research through 40 studies, we have fulfilled a longstanding plan to 'get a book out'. Indeed, with this series of three now being published, you could say Breslin and Moores authored books, are a bit like buses - you wait a long time for one, and then several come along at once!

You can download our earlier, and very positively reviewed, BERA text here and, for a limited period you can get hard copies from the BERA office.

We would welcome feedback on the guides; feel free to forward this note to friends and colleagues, especially if they have children starting GCSEs or A levels or if they work in secondary or further education!