Helping Parents Help Their Teens
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...]
When is the time for your teen to start thinking about reaching their academic potential this year? Well it’s NOW of course! Good study habits need to be forged early on If your teen thinks they can cruise the whole year, and then but be able to pull an A out of their, err, you know... come exam time, then think again. The students who are going to get good grades this year are … [Read more...]
What is the one subject that high school students need the most outside help with? What same subject is most associated with pain and torture? And has been for generations? Clue – it’s not P.E.... Yes of course it’s math! We have an unorthodox belief - one that your child might be vehemently opposed to initially - that math is actually one of the easiest subjects to get consistently good … [Read more...]
Your child needs to step up to the mark because school’s getting harder. High school education continues to move away from tests with one word answers and towards students having to come up with paragraph or even full essay answers. And there’s a good reason for this. The internet has become so widespread and so accessible, that having a library of singular facts stored in your head is no … [Read more...]
Visual learners are those who learn best through what they see. They learn best when they use graphical ways to represent what they are studying. They prefer it when information is represented in diagrams or graphs. Teaching at school is predominantly based in visual learning - a great advantage for a Visual Learner. This may be because Visual Learning is one of the most common learning … [Read more...]
Kinaesthetic learners are natural doers. They learn best when they discover things by doing them. Kinaesthetic learners aren't necessarily suited to the traditional classroom. They learn best when they are physically active, or through learning activities that involve active participation. Similar to Auditory Learners, Kinaesthetic learners are not tremendous note-takers in class. They … [Read more...]
In this article there’s no time for false modesty, from you or me. If you know that your child is better than average in a subject – encourage them to sit the Scholarship exam in that subject. I wasn’t even going to sit the two Scholarship exams I passed at school. The teachers at school didn’t tell us much about them, didn’t encourage those of us that were able to at least give … [Read more...]
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