The best MYP revision resource depends on what you need to do next. Understanding a physics concept, justifying a mathematical rule and analysing a literary passage require different kinds of practice.
A website can explain the content clearly without preparing you for the task your teacher will assess. Equally, a resource does not need an IB label to help you learn.
This guide covers free resources for Maths, Sciences, English, and Individuals and Societies. Each recommendation has a specific purpose, along with an explanation of what you still need from your school materials.
Start With the Task, Not the Website
Before opening another revision tab, find your current unit outline, assessment task and teacher feedback.
The IB explains that internal MYP assessment uses tasks created and marked by classroom teachers, with achievement judged against prescribed subject criteria. Optional external eAssessment is a separate part of the picture.
That makes your school materials the starting point for deciding what to revise and what a successful response needs to demonstrate.
As RevisionDojo’s MYP physics resource guide puts it:
“The right answer depends on the problem being solved.”
Ask a more precise question than “Which website is best?” Do you need an explanation, repeated practice, an investigation, a text or feedback on your reasoning? Choose the resource after identifying the need.
Free MYP Maths Revision Resources
Khan Academy: Useful for rebuilding mathematical foundations through explanations and practice.
Khan Academy’s free learning platform is designed to help learners master concepts and address gaps. Use its topic structure to revisit the prerequisite mathematics behind your current unit.
Choose a specific skill, attempt the practice independently and then return to your school questions. Completing an online topic is useful practice, but it is not an MYP criterion judgment.
Corbettmaths: Useful for focused practice on individual mathematical procedures.
Its public index pairs videos with practice questions and textbook exercises across topics including algebra, geometry and probability.
Use it when you understand an explanation but still need to perform the method accurately without support. Choose questions that match your teacher’s topic list. GCSE labels and question groupings should not be treated as MYP achievement levels.
NRICH: Useful for exploring unfamiliar problems and explaining mathematical reasoning.
The University of Cambridge’s free mathematics resources include problems involving patterns, sequences, geometry and other topics.
For investigation practice, record what you tried, the relationship you noticed and why you think it holds. Do not stop when you have found the next term.
Our teacher guide to designing MYP Maths Criterion B tasks explains why identifying a pattern and justifying a general rule are different demands. NRICH can support that reasoning practice, but its activities are not automatically MYP assessment tasks.
Free MYP Science Revision Resources
PhET Interactive Simulations: Useful for exploring scientific relationships by changing variables and observing what happens.
PhET provides free interactive science and mathematics simulations. Its tools allow students to manipulate conditions and use representations or measuring instruments to explore relationships.
For MYP physics revision, use a relevant simulation to investigate a relationship you have already encountered in class. For chemistry, choose one that helps connect an observable change with a particle model.
Make a prediction before changing a variable. Record what happens, then explain whether the observation supports your prediction.
A simulation does not automatically provide a complete investigation. Use your school task to decide what you must explain about variables, data, conclusions and limitations.
HHMI BioInteractive: Useful for understanding biology through scientific stories, data and visual explanations.
Its free resources include films, animations, interactive activities and virtual laboratories. Materials draw on real research and are designed primarily for high school and undergraduate teaching.
For MYP biology revision, ask your teacher to help select an activity at the right level. Focus on the biological process or evidence relevant to your unit rather than trying to complete an entire advanced resource.
Afterwards, explain the process without replaying the animation, or interpret a figure before reading its explanation. These are suggested ways to use the material, not an IB assessment formula.
Keep science revision broader than recall. The IB’s MYP sciences overview emphasises inquiry, research, observation and experimentation. Add practice in designing investigations, interpreting evidence and explaining conclusions alongside learning terminology.
Free Resources for MYP English
This section concerns English within Language and Literature. Students taking English Language Acquisition should follow the requirements of that separate subject.
The IB’s Language and Literature overview includes literary and nonliterary texts, alongside reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and presenting. An essay website cannot cover all of that.
Purdue OWL: Useful for close reading and turning observations into supported analysis.
Its guidance explains how to annotate a text, collect evidence and avoid replacing analysis with plot summary.
Apply the guidance to the passage you are studying. Identify a specific choice in language or structure, explain its effect and connect that explanation to your argument.
Purdue OWL provides writing guidance, not MYP marks. Check your teacher’s instructions for the text type, audience and assessment expectations.
Project Gutenberg: Useful for accessing original literary texts, particularly older works.
Its free ebook collection focuses on works whose United States copyright has expired. Follow the site’s copyright guidance for your location, and check that the text and edition match what your class is using.
Use it to reread a passage, examine surrounding context or check a quotation. It is a text library, not a collection of MYP literary analyses or answers to your assessment.
Individuals and Societies: Sources and Data
The IB describes Individuals and Societies as involving skills such as analysing information, testing hypotheses and interpreting original sources. Schools can organise it through separate subjects or integrated courses.
That makes resources for handling evidence useful even when their topic does not match every unit.
US National Archives document analysis worksheets: Useful for building a disciplined approach to interpreting primary sources.
The free worksheets cover documents, photographs, maps, posters and other source types. They guide learners from initial observation towards using a source as historical evidence.
Apply the questions to a source connected to your classwork. Consider what you can observe, what context you need and which conclusions the source can reasonably support.
The archive’s materials are not a complete MYP history course, and a worksheet does not replace your assessment criteria.
Our World in Data: Useful for finding and interpreting charts on topics such as population, energy and development.
The site makes its research and data freely available, with explanations and underlying sources.
Choose a chart relevant to your unit. Record the indicator, dates, units and population before describing a pattern. Follow the underlying source when you need to understand how the information was collected.
Use the chart as evidence to examine, not as a ready made conclusion. A visible relationship does not, on its own, establish its cause.
Check Accuracy Before Trusting an MYP Label
A resource can be relevant to MYP and still need checking.
During this review, IITian Academy’s MYP biology cells notes contained conflicting microscopy guidance. One tip equated 1 mm with 100 µm, while the conversion section correctly gave 1 mm as 1,000 µm.
That specific inconsistency is a reason to check the notes against your textbook before relying on them. The page is not a primary recommendation here.
Apply the same check to any provider: verify a calculation, compare terminology with your class materials and investigate contradictions rather than memorising them.
Where Free MYP Resources Still Leave Gaps
Among the resources reviewed here, useful content explanations and activities are easier to find than a complete match to every school unit and assessed skill.
Feedback on reasoning remains a separate need. A correct numerical answer does not tell you whether a justification is complete. A readable paragraph does not establish how well it meets your task. Take a specific attempted response to your teacher rather than asking only whether a website is good.
School context matters. Your English texts, Individuals and Societies case studies, and science investigations may not match a general resource’s organisation. Build your revision list from the actual unit.
Onscreen assessment needs its own preparation. The IB’s MYP assessment overview distinguishes external onscreen examinations from classroom assessment. Students taking these examinations should ask their coordinator for suitable familiarisation materials. A browser quiz should not be assumed to reproduce the examination experience.
Build a Small Revision Toolkit You Actually Use
Start with one subject and one difficulty from recent feedback. Choose a resource that addresses that difficulty, then produce something you can check: a worked solution, an explanation, an annotated passage or a source analysis.
Compare your attempt with the available guidance. Record what needs changing and return to a related school task to see whether you can now apply it independently.
Resist collecting several explanations of the same topic before attempting anything yourself. Keep the resources that help you act on feedback.
For a scientific simulation, use PhET. For an original literary text, use Project Gutenberg. Koncepts does not need to replace those resources.
For practice organised around MYP criteria, explore Koncepts for MYP students alongside your school materials. The aim is a useful combination of resources, not doing every part of revision on one website.
