Helping Parents Help Their Teens
The reason that a student doesn’t reach their academic potential, and doesn’t get the grades they’re capable of, is hardly ever because they didn’t have the ability to do so. One of the main reasons students don’t get the grades they’re capable of getting is because they were disorganised during the school year. Sometimes it’s the really little things that make students … [Read more...]
Writing essays is like serving in tennis. Most people when they start out make it way more complicated than it needs to be, and produce something that looks pretty spazy. The pros do it smoothly and easily. It’s uncomplicated and easy to follow. You know what I mean? Well if that doesn’t make any sense, what I’m saying is that good essays are simple. Everything about their … [Read more...]
Helping your teen get the grades you know they’re capable of achieving is unlikely to be a stress-free journey. As I’m sure you’re all too well aware… There are going to be highs and lows along the way. Dealing with the highs is easy. Jump up and down in celebration of your teen’s achievement. Go the movies. Go to Pizza Hut with your family and stuff yourself with as much cheese … [Read more...]
As with most things, starting is the hardest part. It doesn’t matter whether it’s losing weight, starting a new project, starting a new job, or in your teen’s case, starting to give a damn about school. Old habits are hard to break. It’s not easy getting into a new routine. If your teen has been fairly useless before now about doing homework and studying for exams, then … [Read more...]
When you’re at elementary school a huge part of the day is taken up with developing your writing skills. But if my memory serves me correctly, developing our writing skills grinds almost to a complete halt at high school. I don’t know where in the world your teen goes to school, but at my high school, if you were naturally a good writer then yay for you, but if you struggled with … [Read more...]
It’s a terrible curse that even when it’s in our own best interests to do something we still procrastinate. Even if dire consequences await if you do. Procrastination is a particularly common problem for high school students. Perhaps your teen is currently suffering from a vicious strain of procrastination right now? If they are, they’re not alone. Every single person … [Read more...]
It can be very daunting indeed when you don’t understand a word the teacher is saying in class. How is your teen supposed to study and retain information if they don’t even understand what it is they need to know?! There are a myriad of reasons why your teen might not understand what is going on in class. Just to name a few: They might have trouble concentrating for extended … [Read more...]
Before I tackle this very important question, I should let you know about recent shakeups at The Study Gurus. Chris is currently up to his eyeballs learning everything there is to know about the human body, so I (Clare) am going to be taking over the day-to-day tasks of The Study Gurus. So just as a reminder, here are my contact details in case you ever have a question/comment/problem and … [Read more...]
If a pharmaceutical company developed a drug that made people more organized, every shareholder could retire tomorrow. We’d hazard a guess that, of the students that don’t reach their academic potential, 9 out of 10 are simply disorganized. Disorganized is a word that describes a lot of people. Including a lot of high school students. They’re absolutely NOT impaired by any lack … [Read more...]
This is a big week for The Study Gurus, as we became students once again. We’re back on the other side of the desk. Except this time, we know exactly what we’re doing. Just to clear up the confusion about why we’re now students again, well, it’s not because we failed the first time... After we finished our degrees in Biomedical Science we found ourselves at a bit of a … [Read more...]
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