The Overlooked Secret To Acing Exams

Your Teen Needs A Target To Aim For

Doing well at school and exams depends a lot on your reasons for doing well. So what motivates your teen? Why do they want to do well? I went to uni with a girl who, despite getting good grades, missed out on getting into medicine at the end of her first year. She wasn’t terribly disappointed to not be selected, but during her second year her grades dropped dramatically. She … [Read more...]

How to Write Study Notes That Really Work!

Well set out study notes

Why should you care? Because writing study notes should be what your teen spends the majority of their time doing while they’re studying for exams! Why is writing study notes so important? Your teen has tonnes and tonnes of information to take in during the lead to up exams. And they’re not going to be able to retain this information unless they write a lot of it down. The act of … [Read more...]

How To Consolidate Everything You’ve Studied This Year

Good Luck with Exams!

As you'll probably know, we’re big fans of writing study notes. The physical act of writing stuff down is – in our opinion – the best way to retain information. We also believe that reading over these notes is a really important part of consolidating what's been studied. But there’s something extra your child can do to increase their retention of information by a further … [Read more...]